Econ
by x402-factory in Markets & finance
US economic series: latest print, revisions, surprise vs labeled expectation — One tracked US economic series (BLS/BEA/Fed/Census via FRED/ALFRED): the latest print with first-release vs latest value (revisions never masquerade as print-day numbers), surprise against a labeled expectation — market-implied when a matching prediction market exists, else a trend model — the next scheduled release…
GET https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series
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- Uptime
- 100%
- Response time
- 413 ms typical, 558 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- 2 h ago
- Next check
- any minute now
How to call it
GET https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series
Each call costs $0.02 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:seriesExample response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 108 lines
{
"data": {
"fred_id": "INDPRO",
"frequency": "Monthly",
"latest_print": {
"first_release_value": 102.6395,
"first_released_on": "2026-07-17",
"headline": 0.08,
"headline_basis": "first release vs prior period (latest vintage)",
"headline_units": "% m/m",
"latest_value": 102.6395,
"obs_date": "2026-06-01",
"revised": false
},
"next_release_date": "2026-08-18",
"recent": [
{
"obs_date": "2025-07-01",
"value": 101.894
},
{
"obs_date": "2025-08-01",
"value": 101.6247
},
{
"obs_date": "2025-09-01",
"value": 101.668
},
{
"obs_date": "2025-10-01",
"value": 101.2195
},
{
"obs_date": "2025-11-01",
"value": 101.0344
},
{
"obs_date": "2025-12-01",
"value": 101.4941
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-01-01",
"value": 101.0388
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-02-01",
"value": 101.9263
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-03-01",
"value": 101.6172
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-04-01",
"value": 102.4196
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-05-01",
"value": 102.5606
},
{
"obs_date": "2026-06-01",
"value": 102.6395
}
],
"release_name": "G.17 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization",
"revisions": [
{
"first_value": 102.6475,
"latest_value": 102.5606,
"obs_date": "2026-05-01"
},
{
"first_value": 102.4963,
"latest_value": 102.4196,
"obs_date": "2026-04-01"
},
{
"first_value": 101.7898,
"latest_value": 101.6172,
"obs_date": "2026-03-01"
}
],
"series": "industrial-production",
"source_agency": "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US)",
"surprise": {
"actual": 0.08,
"expectation_detail": "trend-model: mean of prior 3 % m/m prints",
"expectation_source": "trend-model",
"expected": 0.21,
"surprise": -0.13
},
"title": "Industrial Production Index (SA)",
"units": "Index 2017=100"
},
"meta": {
"data_mode": "live",
"docs": "https://x402-factory.com/docs/econ.series",
"endpoint": "/v1/econ/{series}",
"freshness": "daily",
"generated_at": "2026-10-13T06:17:47.407Z",
"request_id": "req_00000000",
"sources": [
"fred"
],
"version": "1.0.0"
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.02.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.02 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.02" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.02 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx402-factory.com%2Fv1%2Fecon%2F%3Aseries
const res = await pay("https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.02 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.02"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://x402-factory.com/v1/econ/:series")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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