How-to guides

Pull the latest RBA cash rate target into Python in three lines. Returns the most recent observation from RBA series F1.1 as JSON.

Fetch every cash rate decision since 1990 as a flat JSON array. Useful for charts, backtests, and discount-rate models.

One fetch call, no SDK. Works in Node 18+, browsers, Cloudflare Workers, and Deno.

Use Pulse webhooks to receive a signed POST when the RBA Board changes the cash rate. No polling.

Pulse delivers signed JSON within 60 seconds of an RBA Board outcome. Includes the new target and prior value.

ABS publishes headline CPI every quarter. This endpoint returns the most recent print as JSON.

Returns every ABS CPI observation since 1948 as flat JSON. Use for inflation-adjustment calculations.

Combine the Wage Price Index and CPI to get real wage growth in a single function. The /v1/real-wages endpoint does this server-side.

Convert any historical AUD figure to today's dollars using a single API call. Returns the deflated value and the index ratio used.

Pull both series at once, align by quarter, and chart the gap. Shows real interest rate over time.

ABS Labour Force Survey, seasonally adjusted. One call returns the headline rate, participation rate, and employed total.

Returns the latest unemployment rate for NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, ACT, and NT in one call.

Monthly employed persons from the Labour Force Survey, full and part-time split.

Share of the working-age population that is employed or actively looking. Monthly, seasonally adjusted.

ABS Residential Property Price Index for eight capitals. Quarterly index where 2011-12 equals 100.

Monthly vacancy rate sourced from REI state bodies, normalised across cities.

Median dwelling price divided by median annual income. Combines ABS house prices and HILDA income.

ABS 8731.0. Counts of new dwellings approved each month, split by detached and attached.

ABS Producer Price Index for residential construction, quarterly.

APRA Monthly ADI Statistics. Deposits by bank, useful for competitive analysis.

Monthly housing loan balances per APRA ADI, ranked.

APRA Quarterly ADI Performance. CET1, Tier 1, and total capital ratios per bank.

Full history of cash rate changes with decision direction and statement URL.

Real-time wholesale electricity price by region from AEMO. 5-minute settlement.

Current MW dispatch by fuel: coal, gas, hydro, wind, solar, battery.

Percent of dispatched generation from wind, solar, hydro, and batteries.

Weekly unleaded and diesel averages from AIP data, normalised per state.

ATO Taxation Statistics. Mean and median taxable income per Australian postcode.

ATO Taxation Statistics by ANZSCO occupation. Mean, median, and tax paid.

Current income tax brackets for residents, including Medicare levy.

Pass gross salary, get income tax, Medicare levy, and net pay. Honours the current bracket table.

BOM observations for Sydney Observatory Hill. Temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall.

BOM observations for Melbourne Olympic Park.

BOM city forecast. Max, min, rainfall probability, summary.

Daily rainfall by BOM station, back to 1900 for the longest-running sites.

Daily max and min by BOM station, back to 1910 for ACORN-SAT sites.

ABS quarterly Estimated Resident Population by state and territory.

ABS Series A, B, C projections by state.

Quarterly net overseas migration from ABS Migration release.

Census 2021 median age per SA2.

Median age, income, household size, dwelling tenure, and country of birth for any SA2.

ABS International Trade. Monthly export values by SITC category.

Goods and services balance, seasonally adjusted.

DFAT data on export values by partner country.

ABS National Accounts. Quarterly chain volume GDP, seasonally adjusted.

GDP divided by ERP, quarterly.

ABS industry value added contribution to GDP, quarterly.

ABS Retail Trade. Turnover by industry, monthly, seasonally adjusted.

Monthly turnover by state and territory.

Food, household goods, clothing, department stores, cafes, and other.

Pull the full series and chart it in 10 lines of Python.

Fetch the CPI series and render a YoY line chart in a React component.

Use our HTML embed to drop a live cash rate widget into a Notion callout.

Use the CSV endpoint and IMPORTDATA to auto-refresh CPI in a sheet.

Add ausdata as an MCP server. Claude can answer questions like what is the current cash rate without you copying values.

Cursor supports MCP via the same config. The setup takes a minute.

Wire ausdata into a LangGraph agent that answers macro questions on demand.

Sign up, create a key, start calling. Free tier is 500 requests per month with no card.

We return 429 with Retry-After and a JSON body. Back off and retry.

Create a second key, deploy it, then revoke the first.

Import our OpenAPI spec into Postman. All 46 endpoints come in pre-configured.

Same OpenAPI import flow as Postman. Insomnia handles bearer auth at the workspace level.

Add .csv to the path. We return a UTF-8 CSV with the same fields as the JSON response.

Add .parquet for analytics workloads. Parquet preserves types and is column-oriented.

Use httpfs to read the Parquet endpoint directly into DuckDB.

pd.read_json or pd.read_csv straight off the endpoint with the right headers.

Pull ABS Survey of Income and Housing by state, ranked.

Median price divided by median household income, ranked by SA2.

ABS publishes a monthly CPI indicator alongside the quarterly print. This endpoint returns the latest.

ABS quarterly WPI by sector and state.

Monthly NAB Business Survey. Confidence, conditions, capacity utilisation.

Monthly Westpac Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index.

ABS Balance of Payments. Quarterly current account balance in AUD.

RBA monthly aggregate of private sector credit. Owner-occupier, investor, and business splits.

RBA monthly M3 aggregate. Currency plus bank deposits.

RBA daily F11 exchange rates. AUD against USD, EUR, JPY, CNY, and TWI.

APRA quarterly superannuation statistics. Average balance by age and gender.

AEMO five-minute regional demand in MW.

AEMO Short Term Trading Market prices for Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane.