Accessing the Public Data API with PHP Code

Multiple Series and Multiple Years

Use this code to retrieve data for more than one timeseries and more than one year.

Sample PHP Code:

$url = 'https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/';
$method = 'POST';
$query = array(
'seriesid'  => array('LEU0254555900', 'APU0000701111'),
'startyear' => '2002',
'endyear'   => '2012'
);
$pd = json_encode($query);
$contentType = 'Content-Type: application/json';
$contentLength = 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($pd);
$result = file_get_contents(
$url, null, stream_context_create(
array(
'http' => array(
'method' => $method,
'header' => $contentType . "\r\n" . $contentLength . "\r\n",
'content' => $pd
),
)
)
);
var_dump($http_response_header);
var_dump($result);

Last Modified Date: October 16, 2014