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Federal Reserve communications as structured data: the FOMC meeting calendar with next_meeting, each post-meeting statement with the rate decision and vote parsed and a sentence-level redline against the previous statement, meeting minutes split into sections, Board speeches and testimony, and the Beige Book by district. Read from the Board of Governors' public pages and RSS feeds on federalreserve.gov.

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Tools

unscheduled) with start/end dates, whether it has a Summary of Economic Projections, statement / implementation-note / press-conference / minutes URLs and the minutes release date, plus nextmeeting with daysuntil and lastmeeting with dayssince. Answers "when is the next FOMC meeting".

• fomc_calendar(year?) — every meeting of a year (scheduled, notation votes,

ratedecision (sentence, hold/cut/hike, target range as numbers, change in bp), vote (tally, named dissenters and what they preferred), the implementation-note URL, and diffvs_prior: sentences changed (with the words removed/added), added, removed, computed against the previous statement with the vote tally, roll-call, date and media lines excluded. Answers "what changed in the latest Fed statement".

• fomcstatement(date?, compareto?, include_text?) — the statement text,

(Developments in Financial Markets, Staff Review…, Participants' Views, Committee Policy Actions, Attendance); section is a case-insensitive substring filter. Answers "what did the minutes say about inflation".

• fomc_minutes(date?, section?) — the minutes with section headings

congressional testimony with speaker + official title, venue, URL and the opening paragraph. Answers "latest speech by Waller".

• fedspeeches(days?, speaker?, includetestimony?, limit?) — speeches and

report, split into sections (Labor Markets, Prices, and the district's industry sections). District accepts a city name, "Kansas City", "St. Louis", or the district number 1–12. Answers "what does the Beige Book say about Dallas".

• beige_book(edition?, district?) — the national summary or one district's

Auth

Keyless.

Data sources

rows (div.fomc-meeting) with statement, implementation-note, press-conference, projections and minutes links. The page carries ~6 past years plus next year; older meetings are only in the historical-materials archive and return found:false, reason:yearnoton_calendar. — statement; a1 is the implementation note; b (January) is the Statement on Longer-Run Goals. The "notation vote" row (e.g. 2025-08-22) links a non-policy statement and is excluded from "latest" and from the diff baseline.

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minutes, released ~3 weeks after the meeting. Sections are Heading…, not . — -summary is the national summary; the bare beigebook{YYYYMM}.htm page is only the "About this publication" boilerplate. Editions are discovered from (the /monetarypolicy/beige-book-default.htm URL 302s there). Pre-2017 editions use a different layout and are not parsed.

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— ~20 items each, so days beyond feedwindow.oldestitem is truncated. The testimony feed has carried Sat, 30 Dec 1899 pubDates on a few items; those are treated as undated and dropped.

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Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.