Cookbook
10 recipes. Copy, paste, run.
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Cold-call latency
First call to a cold endpoint takes a few seconds while we warm the source cache (measured: ~6s for composed endpoints, up to 60s for the four heaviest datasets: ATO ACNC AIS, ASIC register, AIHW Cancer, AIHW Mortality). The same call again is ~0.2s. This is normal. Live health is at /status.
Australia's cash rate today
The single most-asked-for number from the RBA, fresh.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/F1?series=cash_rate_target&limit=1"Real cash rate trajectory 2020 to now
Nominal minus inflation. The number that actually matters for households.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/real-rate-regime?start_period=2020-Q1&end_period=2026-Q1"Latest monthly inflation by category
Which CPI groups actually drove the headline number.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/inflation-decomposition"CPI per Australian capital city
Capital-city deltas vs the national figure. Where the squeeze is sharpest.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/cpi-by-city"Housing pipeline: approvals vs completions
What share of approved dwellings actually get built.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/approvals-vs-completions?start_period=2020-Q1&end_period=2026-Q1"Net overseas migration vs housing supply
Annual approvals against NOM. Coverage ratio with an honest caveat.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/approvals-vs-migration?start_period=2015&end_period=2025"NEM live electricity prices by region
Spot prices across the National Electricity Market with regime tagging.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/nem-energy-regime"After-tax real return on cash savings
Deposit rate minus CPI with marginal tax overlay.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/real-savings-rate"Australian CPI history back to 1948
The full ABS CPI series. Year-on-year change, all groups, national.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUSDATA_KEY" \
"https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/abs/CPI?measure=change_year&category=all_groups®ion=australia&start=1948&end=2026"