IMF Data Portal SDMX API

[westurner]

STORY: Users can retrieve IMF datasets with pandas-datareader

• https://betadata.imf.org/
• https://betadata.imf.org/en/Resource-Pages/IMF-API
• "Access to IMF Data SDMX API in Python"
  https://datasupport.imf.org/knowledge?id=knowledge_category&sys_kb_id=b849dc6b47294ad8805d07c4f16d4311&category_id=9959b2bc1b6391903dba646fbd4bcb6a
  • pySDMX

Workaround:

• Access the API with pySDMX

Tasks:

• Create a test case that retrieves a small, cached dataset every time the pandas-datareader build runs

[westurner]

FWIW, also, W3C RDF Data Cubes is based upon SDMX: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/#intro-sdmx

[bashtage]

Currently broken in pandas-datareader. Needs someone to implement a fix, or to be abandoned.