Economic Calendar Api Recommendation?

[cdxadmin]

Can anyone recommend an economic calendar api?

I need one for my company.  It has to be an actual api that reads json data (or other format) and doesn't rely on screen-scraping of html.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance!

[Alain Verleyen]

You didn't make a lot of efforts to find it yourself. It's 5 minutes research to find at least 3 different ones. Do your homework.

[Sergey Efimov]

cdxadmin:

Can anyone recommend an economic calendar api?

I need one for my company.  It has to be an actual api that reads json data (or other format) and doesn't rely on screen-scraping of html.

Does anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance!

use nquotes+c#

[nicholish en]

Ok...... Let's try this again. You can use FF's free calendar API

import datetime as dt
import functools

import dateutil.parser as date_parser
import requests


@functools.lru_cache
def get_events(past_events=False):
    url = 'https://cdn-nfs.faireconomy.media/ff_calendar_thisweek.json'
    events = requests.get(url).json()
    now = dt.datetime.now(tz=dt.timezone.utc)
    filtered_events = []
    for e in events:
        date = e['date'] = date_parser.parse(e['date'])
        if past_events or date >= now:
            filtered_events.append(e)
    return filtered_events


if __name__ == '__main__':
    import pprint
    def high_impact_usd(event):
        return (event['country'] == 'USD' and event['impact'] in ['High', 'Medium'])

    pprint.pp(list(filter(high_impact_usd, get_events())))

...

[{'title': 'Retail Sales m/m',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 16, 8, 30, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'High',
  'forecast': '7.4%',
  'previous': '-16.4%'},
 {'title': 'Core Retail Sales m/m',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 16, 8, 30, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'High',
  'forecast': '5.5%',
  'previous': '-17.2%'},
 {'title': 'Fed Chair Powell Testifies',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 16, 10, 0, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'High',
  'forecast': '',
  'previous': ''},
 {'title': 'Building Permits',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 17, 8, 30, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'Medium',
  'forecast': '1.23M',
  'previous': '1.07M'},
 {'title': 'Fed Chair Powell Testifies',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 17, 12, 0, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'High',
  'forecast': '',
  'previous': ''},
 {'title': 'Unemployment Claims',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 18, 8, 30, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'Medium',
  'forecast': '1300K',
  'previous': '1542K'},
 {'title': 'Philly Fed Manufacturing Index',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 18, 8, 30, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'Medium',
  'forecast': '-25.0',
  'previous': '-43.1'},
 {'title': 'CB Leading Index m/m',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 18, 10, 0, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'Medium',
  'forecast': '2.4%',
  'previous': '-4.4%'},
 {'title': 'Fed Chair Powell Speaks',
  'country': 'USD',
  'date': datetime.datetime(2020, 6, 19, 13, 0, tzinfo=tzoffset(None, -14400)),
  'impact': 'Medium',
  'forecast': '',
  'previous': ''}]

[ezekielthegreatest]

Thank you so much for the information nicholish en but how do I stream this data or get the Actual of the economic calendar...thanks

[Carl Schreiber]

The economic calendar is part of the terminal MT5:

If you open this tab the relevant news are placed on the actual chart:

To delete them again on the chart: Contrl+B => List all => select all (you need) and Delete.

Finally here you find the available functions for MQL5:

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/calendar

[Daqiang Wei]

卡尔·施赖伯 # :

经济 日历 是MT5终端的一部分：

如果您打开此选项卡，相关新闻将放置在实际图表上：

要在图表上再次删除它们：Contrl+B => 列出全部 => 选择全部（您需要）并删除。

最后，您可以在这里找到 MQL5 的可用函数：

https://www.mql5.com/en/docs/calendar

MT5 calendar data difference from ffc 

[Sergey Golubev]

Daqiang Wei #:

MT5 calendar data difference from ffc 

MT5 calendar forecasting data must be different from ff calendar because those are the two different calendars (it should not be same by definition).