Specifying the URL= Option to Create TAGS_SERIES4 Data Set.
/*----------------------------------------------------------------
SAS SAMPLE LIBRARY
Name: fredex09.sas
Description: Example program from SAS/ETS User's Guide,
The SASEFRED Interface Engine
Title: Specifying the URL= Option to Create TAGS_SERIES4 Data Set.
Product: SAS/ETS Software
Keys: FRED data extraction
Procs: SASEFRED
Notes: Read this before you run this sample.
The sample data provided resides in the ets/sasmisc folder.
Define a system environment variable,
FRED, to the path of your writeable folder containing
the XFREDtpu.xml as your destination folder for FRED data.
To assign a fileref to the external file to be processed,
use the following form of the libname statement:
libname fred sasefred "%sysget(FRED)"
URL="https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/tags/series?tag_names=slovenia;food;oecd"
APIKEY='<your FRED apikey>'
;
----------------------------------------------------------------*/
options validvarname=any
sslcalistloc="/SASSecurityCertificateFramework/1.1/cacerts/trustedcerts.pem";
title 'Specifying the URL= Option to Create the TAGS_SERIES4 Data Set.';
libname _all_ clear;
libname mylib "/sasusr/playpens/saskff/fred/doc/";
libname fred4 sasefred "/sasusr/playpens/saskff/fred/test/"
debug=on
URL="https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/tags/series?tag_names=slovenia;food;oecd"
APIKEY='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
;
data mylib.tags_series4;
set fred4.XFREDtpu;
run;
proc print
data=mylib.tags_series4(obs=2);
run;
proc contents
data=mylib.tags_series4;
run;