Accessing the Public Data API with SAS Procedures:

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• API Version 2.0 SAS Sample Code
  • One or More Series
  • One or More Series, Specifying Years
• API Version 1.0 SAS Sample Code
  • One or More Series
  • One or More Series, Specifying Years

You can access the Public Data API through SAS Procedures using the following code. We have provided examples for each API Signature.

API Version 2.0 SAS Sample Code

One or More Series

Use this signature to retrieve data for more than one timeseries for the past three years. You can include up to 25 series IDs.

Sample SeriesIn.txt

   
{"seriesid":["CEU0800000003","CFU0000008000","LEU0254555900","APU0000701111"]}

Sample SAS Code:

  
%let url=https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/;
filename in  "c:\somepath\SeriesIn.txt";
filename out "c:\somepath\SeriesDataOut.txt" recfm=v lrecl=32000;
proc http in=in out=out url="&url" method="post" ct="application/json";
run;

One or More Series, Specifying Years

Use this signature to retrieve data for one or more time series within a set time frame of up to 10 years. You must include at least one series ID, the start year, and the end year in the body of the request.

Sample SeriesIn.txt

   
{"seriesid":["CEU0800000003","CFU0000008000","LEU0254555900","APU0000701111"],
"startyear":"2002",
"endyear":"2012"}

Sample SAS Code:

  
%let url=https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/;
filename in  "c:\somepath\SeriesIn.txt";
filename out "c:\somepath\SeriesDataOut.txt" recfm=v lrecl=32000;
proc http in=in out=out url="&url" method="post" ct="application/json";
run;

API Version 1.0 SAS Sample Code

One or More Series

Use this signature to retrieve data for more than one timeseries for the past three years. You can include up to 25 series IDs.

Sample SeriesIn.txt

   
{"seriesid":["CEU0800000003","CFU0000008000","LEU0254555900","APU0000701111"]}

Sample SAS Code:

  
%let url=https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/;
filename in  "c:\somepath\SeriesIn.txt";
filename out "c:\somepath\SeriesDataOut.txt" recfm=v lrecl=32000;
proc http in=in out=out url="&url" method="post" ct="application/json";
run;

One or More Series, Specifying Years

Use this signature to retrieve data for one or more time series within a set time frame of up to 10 years. You must include at least one series ID, the start year, and the end year in the body of the request.

Sample SeriesIn.txt

   
{"seriesid":["CEU0800000003","CFU0000008000","LEU0254555900","APU0000701111"],
"startyear":"2002",
"endyear":"2012"}

Sample SAS Code:

  
%let url=https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/;
filename in  "c:\somepath\SeriesIn.txt";
filename out "c:\somepath\SeriesDataOut.txt" recfm=v lrecl=32000;
proc http in=in out=out url="&url" method="post" ct="application/json";
run;

Last Modified Date: October 16, 2014