BLS CPI Data Scraper | US Consumer Price Index
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BLS CPI Data Scraper | US Consumer Price Index
Pull US Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI series with period, value, area, item, and seasonally adjusted flag. Filter by series ID and date range. Built for economists, fintech apps, inflation research, and analysts tracking US consumer price index trends.
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📈 BLS CPI Data Scraper
🚀 Export Consumer Price Index time series in seconds. Pull official BLS CPI observations for any series, any year range, straight to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.
🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 8 fields per record · National & metro coverage · 1913-present
The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the Consumer Price Index, the headline US inflation measure. This actor uses the official BLS public timeseries API to return monthly observations for any CPI series you specify.
Coverage includes All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), Wage Earners (CPI-W), Chained CPI, regional and metro indexes, and category-level series (food, energy, shelter, medical).
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Economists | Track inflation by category |
| Finance teams | Index escalators, COLA |
| Researchers | Long historical data pulls |
| Journalists | Monthly inflation reporting |
📋 What the BLS CPI Data Scraper does
- Calls the BLS public API (v2) for any list of CPI series IDs
- Returns monthly observations with year, period, value, and footnotes
- Supports historical pulls back to series inception
- Flags the latest observation per series
💡 Why it matters: Official inflation data, structured for analysis.
🎬 Full Demo (🚧 Coming soon)
⚙️ Input
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| seriesIds | array | BLS series IDs (default CUUR0000SA0) |
| maxItems | integer | Cap on observations |
| startYear | integer | Optional |
| endYear | integer | Optional |
⚠️ Good to Know: Without an API key, BLS limits queries. For heavy use, register a free key at bls.gov.
📊 Output
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 📌 seriesId | string | BLS series ID |
| 📅 year | number | Observation year |
| 📆 period | string | M01-M13 |
| periodName | string | Month name |
| 💲 value | number | Index value |
| latest | boolean | True for the most recent obs |
| footnotes | array | BLS footnote text |
| 🕒 scrapedAt | string | ISO timestamp |
✨ Why choose this Actor
- Direct BLS API: official source, no scraping
- Multi-series in one run
- Returns latest flag for monitoring
📈 How it compares to alternatives
| Approach | Cost | Speed | Maintenance |
|---|---|---|---|
| This actor | Pay per result | Fast | None |
| BLS website manual | Free | Slow | High |
| FRED API | Free | Fast | Custom code |
🚀 How to use
- Create a free account w/ $5 credit
- Open the actor
- Set series IDs and optional year range
- Run
- Download dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
💼 Business use cases
Contract escalation
Quarterly CPI lookups for lease and supply contracts.
Treasury & finance
TIPS modelling and inflation hedging.
HR
COLA calculations for salary bands.
Macroeconomics
Sector CPI trends for category management.
🔌 Automating BLS CPI Data Scraper
Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.
🌟 Beyond business use cases
Research
Academic time series analysis.
Personal
Household budget inflation modelling.
Non-profit
Cost-of-living advocacy.
Experimentation
Train forecasting models on CPI data.
🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot can explain series IDs and outputs.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What are CPI series IDs? A: BLS identifiers like CUUR0000SA0 (All Urban Consumers). Q: How far back? A: Series-dependent, some go back to 1913. Q: Why pull multiple series? A: Compare core vs headline or food vs energy. Q: Are values seasonally adjusted? A: Depends on the series prefix (CUUR vs CUSR). Q: How frequent are updates? A: Monthly, mid-month for the prior month. Q: Is an API key required? A: Not for small queries. Q: Can I get percent changes? A: This actor returns raw values, compute changes downstream. Q: Are regional indexes supported? A: Yes, via series ID. Q: Does this include Chained CPI? A: Yes, with C-CPI-U series IDs. Q: What is the latest flag? A: True for the most recent observation of each series.
🔌 Integrate with any app
Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Sheets, Webhooks.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only publicly available data collected.
