bank of canada

Bank of Canada Valet API tools: foreign exchange rates, interest rates (policy rate, CORRA, bond yields), commodity price indexes (BCPI), CPI inflation indicators, series metadata search, and group browsing.

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All tools accept lang: "en" | "fr". Open each tool below for its source-derived parameters.

`boc_get_exchange_rates`

Get daily CAD exchange rates for one or all foreign currencies.

Use forgetting current or historical exchange rates between CAD and foreign

exchange, currency, forex, cad, usd, eur, gbp, jpy, rate, conversion,

Parameter	Type	Default
`currency`	`str \| None`	`None`
`start_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`end_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`recent`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_get_interest_rates`

Get Bank of Canada interest rates including policy rate, CORRA, and bond yields.

Use forfetching current or historical interest rates such as the overnight

interest, rate, policy, prime, overnight, corra, bond, yield,

Parameter	Type	Default
`rate_type`	`str`	`'all'`
`start_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`end_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`recent`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_get_commodity_prices`

Get Bank of Canada Commodity Price Index (BCPI) data by commodity category.

Use forfetching commodity price indexes for energy, metals, agriculture,

commodity, price, bcpi, energy, metals, agriculture, forestry,

Parameter	Type	Default
`commodity_type`	`str \| None`	`None`
`start_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`end_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`recent`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_get_inflation_data`

Get Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation data from the Bank of Canada.

Use forfetching current or historical inflation indicators including total

inflation, cpi, consumer, price, index, trim, median, common,

Parameter	Type	Default
`indicator`	`str \| None`	`None`
`start_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`end_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`recent`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_search_series`

Search available Bank of Canada Valet API data series by keyword.

Use forfinding the names and descriptions of available data series when

search, series, find, lookup, data, valet, available, discover,

Parameter	Type	Default
`keyword`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_get_series_metadata`

Get metadata (label, description, link) for a specific Valet API series.

Use forretrieving the label and description of a known Bank of Canada

metadata, series, detail, label, description, info, FXUSDCAD,

Parameter	Type	Default
`series_name`	`str`	`required`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_get_observations`

Get raw time-series observations for any Bank of Canada Valet API series.

Use fordirectly fetching observations when you know the exact series

observations, data, raw, series, values, timeseries, historical,

Parameter	Type	Default
`series_names`	`str`	`required`
`start_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`end_date`	`str \| None`	`None`
`recent`	`int`	`10`
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`

`boc_list_groups`

List all available data group collections in the Bank of Canada Valet API.

Use fordiscovering what groups of economic data series are available,

groups, list, categories, available, collections, datasets,

Parameter	Type	Default
`lang`	`Literal['en', 'fr']`	`'en'`