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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;