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🇧🇷 Banco Central do Brasil ~ SGS economic time series

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Free keyless JSON time-series API (SELIC, exchange rates, credit, inflation) via numeric series codes; date-range queries are capped at 10 years per call.

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curl 'https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/'

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API: Banco Central do Brasil ~ SGS economic time series
Provider: Banco Central do Brasil
Endpoint: GET https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/
It returns JSON.

Source: Banco Central do Brasil (https://dadosabertos.bcb.gov.br/dataset)
Source type: Official open-data catalogue
Endpoint type: Open-data catalogue JSON
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-05
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

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