https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
Extracting the "dot plot" economic projections posted online by the Federal Open Market Committee
https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
data-journalism economic-data federal-reserve fomc journalism macroeconomics monetary-policy news python scraper web-scraping
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Extracting the "dot plot" economic projections posted online by the Federal Open Market Committee
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
- Owner: palewire
- License: mit
- Created: 2023-08-10T17:41:52.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-04-17T06:04:21.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-17T20:29:06.695Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: data-journalism, economic-data, federal-reserve, fomc, journalism, macroeconomics, monetary-policy, news, python, scraper, web-scraping
- Language: Python
- Homepage:
- Size: 2.41 MB
- Stars: 20
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 5
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
Extracting the ["dot plot"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedspeak#Other_usage) economic projections posted online by the [Federal Open Market Committee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Open_Market_Committee)
* [Source](https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm)
* [Latest scraped data](https://github.com/palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper/blob/main/data/dotplot.csv)
## Usage
Clone the repository.
```bash
gh repo clone palewire/fed-dot-plot-scraper
```
Move into the directory.
```bash
cd fed-dot-plot-scraper
```
Install the dependencies.
```bash
pipenv install --dev
```
Run the scraper.
```bash
pipenv run python -m src.scrape
```
That will output a CSV to the shell. You can write it to a file like this:
```bash
pipenv run python -m src.scrape > output.csv
```