It's a very narrow subset. In fact it's almost useless. For example: our main price indicator (IPCA index) are available only after 2017 at DB.NOMICS.

Enviado de meu OnePlus


From: gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu <gretl-users-bounces@lists.wfu.edu> on behalf of Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2018 2:29:07 PM
To: Gretl list
Subject: Re: [Gretl-users] Download data using API's
 
On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Henrique Andrade wrote:

> Em 12 de agosto de 2018, Allin escreveu:
>>
>> On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Henrique Andrade wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Gretl Community,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to download and open some Banco Central do Brasil (BCB)
>>> data using its API and I don't know if there's a more "ellegant" way
>>> to achieve that goal. [...]
>>
>> [Y]ou may have an easier time accessing Banco Central do Brasil via
>> gretl's new dbnomics interface, since BCB is one of their
>> providers.
>
> Thanks Allin! But the DB.NOMICS is not using the API from BCB :-(

Dbnomics uses its own API, but why does that matter? Is only a subset
of the BCB data available via dbnomics?

Allin


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