Government (United States)
Use U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) from your AI
Fetch US national accounts from the Bureau of Economic Analysis: GDP and its components (NIPA tables), state personal income, international transactions, GDP by industry and input-output tables, through a discover-then-fetch flow. No setup needed - Arlet supplies the API key.
This server connects your AI client to the Bureau of Economic Analysis API - the primary source for US GDP and the national accounts. BEA data is organized as datasets of named tables, and the table identifiers (T10101, T20600, ...) are not guessable, so the server provides a three-step flow.
Key features:
- list_datasets: without arguments, all datasets (NIPA, Regional, ITA, IIP, GDPbyIndustry, InputOutput, ...); with a dataset name, that dataset's parameters and which are required.
- list_parameter_values: enumerate a parameter's accepted values with keyword filtering - e.g. search NIPA TableName values for 'gross domestic product' to find T10101.
- get_data: fetch a table by dataset + TableName with a frequency (annual/quarterly/monthly) and years, plus dataset-specific extra parameters such as LineCode and GeoFips for Regional data.
Division of labor with FRED: FRED is faster for a single headline series (GDP level or growth rate); BEA is the source when you need a full table with all its line items - the composition of GDP, income by state, trade in services by type.
Arlet obtains and manages the UserID, so there is nothing for you to sign up for or configure - just switch the server on. (Upstream throttles at 100 requests/minute per key, and that budget is shared across Arlet users.)
What you need
- An Arlet account
- No API key or account registration is needed. Just switch it on in Arlet.
Choose your AI client
Pick the AI client you use to see how to connect it with U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).