Documentation

The Central Bank of Chile provides two types of web services; the first one allows the retrieval of time series data and the second contains a catalogue of available time series.

The API is a mechanism that facilitates access to information from the Statistics Database (BDE) using different programming languages or tools (such as R, Python, among others). However, from the fifteenth significant digit onward, minor differences may be observed compared to the Excel download available in the BDE. These differences are due to the computational representation of numbers and do not constitute errors or revisions to the information published in the Statistics Database.

GetSeries

Allows data series retrieving.

• URL: https://si3.bcentral.cl/SieteRestWS/SieteRestWS.ashx?user=123456789&pass=password&firstdate=YYYY-MM-DD&lastdate=YYYY-MM-DD&timeseries=codigodeserie&function=GetSeries



Where:

• user (mandatory): fill in your username.
• pass (mandatory): fill in your password.
• function (optional): fill in GetSeries value. If not set GetSeries used as default.
• timeseries (mandatory): time series id being retrieved. See list of series available.
• firstdate (optional): start date for data retrieve. If not set, data will be collected since first available observation.
• lastdate (optional): end date for data retrieve. If not set, data will be collected until last available observation.
• Response: JSON.

{
  "Codigo": 0,
  "Descripcion": "Success",
  "Series": {
    "descripEsp": "Tasa de política monetaria (TPM) (porcentaje)",
    "descripIng": "Monetary policy rate (MPR) (percentage)",
    "seriesId": "F022.TPM.TIN.D001.NO.Z.D",
    "Obs": [
      {
        "indexDateString": "12-10-2021",
        "value": "1.5",
        "statusCode": "OK"
      },
      {
        "indexDateString": "13-10-2021",
        "value": "1.5",
        "statusCode": "OK"
      },
      {
        "indexDateString": "14-10-2021",
        "value": "2.75",
        "statusCode": "OK"
      },
      {
        "indexDateString": "15-10-2021",
        "value": "2.75",
        "statusCode": "OK"
      }
    ]
  },
  "SeriesInfos": []
}
      

SearchSeries

Provides a list of available timeseries per frequency and its metadata.

• URL: https://si3.bcentral.cl/SieteRestWS/SieteRestWS.ashx?user=123456789&pass=password&frequency=frecuenciaelegida&function=SearchSeries



Where:

• user (mandatory): fill in your username.
• pass (mandatory): fill in your password.
• function (mandatory): fill in SearchSeries value.
• frequency (mandatory): fill in the frequency for which you want to access the catalog of available series, such as DAILY, MONTHLY, QUARTERLY or ANNUAL.
• Respuesta: JSON.

{
  "Codigo": 0,
  "Descripcion": "Success",
  "Series": {
    "descripEsp": null,
    "descripIng": null,
    "seriesId": null,
    "Obs": null
  },
  "SeriesInfos": [
    {
      "seriesId": "F061.1.FLU.S.USD.Z.T",
      "frequencyCode": "QUARTERLY",
      "spanishTitle": "Cuenta corriente, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "englishTitle": "Current account, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "firstObservation": "01-01-1996",
      "lastObservation": "01-07-2011",
      "updatedAt": "09-01-2015",
      "createdAt": "09-01-2015"
    },
    {
      "seriesId": "F061.1A.FLU.S.USD.Z.T",
      "frequencyCode": "QUARTERLY",
      "spanishTitle": "Comercio de bienes y servicios, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "englishTitle": "Current account - Goods and services, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "firstObservation": "01-01-1996",
      "lastObservation": "01-07-2011",
      "updatedAt": "09-01-2015",
      "createdAt": "09-01-2015"
    },
    {
      "seriesId": "F061.1AA.FLU.S.USD.Z.T",
      "frequencyCode": "QUARTERLY",
      "spanishTitle": "Balanza comercial, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "englishTitle": "Trade balance, 1996-2011 (BP)",
      "firstObservation": "01-01-1996",
      "lastObservation": "01-07-2011",
      "updatedAt": "09-01-2015",
      "createdAt": "09-01-2015"
    },
    ...
  ]
}