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How to get Economic Calendar from Eikon Data API
I try to use Eikon Data API to get Economic Calendar, such as:
20:30 2019/11/01 USD Change in Non-farm Payrolls (OCT)
20:30 2019/11/01 USD Unemployment Rate (OCT)
Does anyone know how to do it? thanks.
Code example is better.
Hi @ludi
You can still do it using RICs available on a page <ECONOMY>. For US it will be a chain RIC <0#ECONALLUS>
df,err = ek.get_data('0#ECONALLUS',['DSPLY_NAME','GN_TXT16_3','GN_TXT16_4','OFFC_CODE2'])
df.rename(columns={'DSPLY_NAME':'Indicator', 'GN_TXT16_3':'GMT Date','GN_TXT16_4':'Actual','OFFC_CODE2':'Reuters Poll'}, inplace=True)
df
Hi does this still work?
If I currently run this query. it gives me the following warning:
'The record could not be found' for the instrument '0#ECONALLUS'
@laurens So yes economic chains appear to have been removed so the replacement workflow is RDP Search API. Please see the following:
df = rdp.search( view = rdp.SearchViews.IndicatorQuotes, query = "United States", filter = "startswith(RIC,'US')", #endswith(RIC,'ECI'), top = 10000 ) df
This returns 814 instruments, some which don't have realtime suffixes (=ECI). I downloaded a list of rics from the economic monitor app (EM) and all the unique RICs that were downloaded were present in the RICs returned by the search API. So I think this is the way (perhaps filtering the list to those RICs ending with ECI) . Happy to hear your feedback or thoughts. I hope this can help.