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 (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-01T13:12:35.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:25:16.178Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: data-journalism, economic-data, federal-reserve, fomc, journalism, macroeconomics, monetary-policy, news, python, scraper, web-scraping
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.2 MB
• Stars: 13
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• 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

```