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Pull the full RBA cash rate history

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

Steps

  1. 1Call /v1/data/rba/f1.1 with no limit.
  2. 2Iterate the observations array.
  3. 3Each row has date and value.

Code

cURL
curl https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/f1.1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"
Python
import requests
r = requests.get(
    "https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/f1.1",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY"},
)
print(r.json())
JavaScript
const r = await fetch("https://api.ausdata.io/v1/data/rba/f1.1", {
  headers: { Authorization: "Bearer YOUR_KEY" },
});
console.log(await r.json());

Watch out for

  • Pre-1990 values come from a different RBA methodology and are not included.
  • Decisions before 1998 happened irregularly. Do not assume monthly cadence.

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