@pipeworx/econdata
Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/econdata/mcp · Install: one-click buttons
Tools: 4
US labor and price statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics public API v2 — inflation (CPI-U), the unemployment rate, non-farm payroll employment by industry, and any BLS series by ID.
Tools
| Tool | What it returns |
|---|---|
get_cpi | CPI-U index history for the US city average, all items, with yoy_inflation_pct computed per month and a latest summary. Not seasonally adjusted by default (BLS CUUR0000SA0); pass seasonally_adjusted: true for CUSR0000SA0 — the same series FRED publishes as CPIAUCSL. Every response names the adjustment it used and carries the other month-matched value as latest.index_value_sa / latest.index_value_nsa, because the two run about a point apart (2026-07: 333.918 NSA vs 332.813 SA). |
get_unemployment | Civilian unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted (LNS14000000), monthly. |
get_employment_by_industry | All-employees payroll counts in thousands, seasonally adjusted, for total_nonfarm, manufacturing, construction, retail, financial or government. |
get_series | Any BLS series by ID, for callers who already know the series they want. |
Data arrives newest first — every response says so in observation_order, so you don’t have to infer it from the dates. total and returned are always equal here: BLS returns every point in the requested year range, so nothing is truncated.
Every data point carries an ISO date derived from the BLS period code (M01–M12 monthly, Q01–Q04 quarterly, S01/S02 semiannual, A01/M13 annual), so results sort and freshness-check without decoding "M06".
Auth
Keyless works, at roughly 25 requests per day per IP. A free BLS registration key raises that to 500/day: get one at https://data.bls.gov/registrationEngine/. The gateway supplies a platform key (PLATFORM_BLS_KEY); pass _apiKey only to override it with your own.
Two BLS limits fail differently and the pack distinguishes them, because they used to read alike:
- Per-second burst — BLS returns HTTP 429 “Requests Per Second Limit Exceeded” when concurrent callers land in the same second. The pack retries three times (400 ms, 1200 ms, 2500 ms); only a 429 that survives all three surfaces, as
upstream_throttled, saying explicitly that this is not the daily quota and not an exhausted key. - Daily threshold — arrives as a
REQUEST_NOT_PROCESSEDbody, not an HTTP error. Also surfaced asupstream_throttled, with the registration link.
Data sources
- BLS Public Data API v2 — https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/ (docs: https://www.bls.gov/developers/api_signature_v2.htm)
- Series used:
CUUR0000SA0/CUSR0000SA0(CPI-U, NSA / SA),LNS14000000(unemployment rate),CES*(Current Employment Statistics by industry)
Tools
- get_series — One named US economic indicator series over time, by its Bureau of Labor Statistics series ID.
- get_unemployment — The US unemployment rate over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- get_cpi — The US Consumer Price Index over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- get_employment_by_industry — US employment counts broken out by industry over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tools
get_cpi— The US Consumer Price Index over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.get_employment_by_industry— US employment counts broken out by industry over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.get_series— One named US economic indicator series over time, by its Bureau of Labor Statistics series ID.get_unemployment— The US unemployment rate over time, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.