This repository contains python codes to scrape FOMC meeting dates including selected documents.
With the following code the history (up to 2016 at the moment) can be downloaded:
dirname = "/path/to/repository"
# Which documents to download
documentTypes = ["Record of Policy Actions", "Minutes", "Beige Book", "Tealbook A", "Tealbook B", "Greenbook",
"Bluebook", "Redbook", "Longer-Run Goals", "Memoranda", "Statement", "Supplement", "Transcript",
"Individual Projections"]
startyear = 1936
endyear = 2016
df1 = get_fomc_archive(dirname, startyear, endyear, documentTypes)Some documents are only released after 5 years. With the following code the the last five years of meeting dates and available documents can be downloaded:
# Which documents to download
documentTypes = ["Minutes", "Longer-Run Goals", "Statement", "Projection"]
df2 = get_fomc_current(dirname, documentTypes)Notes:
- The program uses the selenium package with geckodriver. See here for more information: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver
- The full database is quite large (more than 5 GB)