imf_parameters()

List input parameters and available parameter values for use in

Usage

Source

imf_parameters(
    database_id,
    times=2,
)

making API requests from a given IMF database.

database_id : str A database_id from imf_databases(). times : int, optional, default 3 Maximum number of API requests to attempt.

dict A dictionary of DataFrames, where each key corresponds to an input parameter for API requests from the database. All values are DataFrames with an ‘input_code’ column and a ‘description’ column. The ‘input_code’ column is a character list of all possible input codes for that parameter when making requests from the IMF API endpoint. The ‘descriptions’ column is a character list of text descriptions of what each input code represents.

Fetch the full list of indicator codes and descriptions for the Primary

Commodity Price System database

params = imf_parameters(database_id=‘PCPS’)