How-To Guide: BLS Public Data API

Single Series

You can do a request with a single series ID. You should send a GET request, which may have just the series ID or may have parameters, as discussed in Parameters. Use the single series option to get information from one program with one set of specifications. The results will contain one series object, which may have multiple data objects (see Responses page). See the code example below, which uses the seriesID we generated earlier to retrieve information about annual wages of photographers, nationally:

		var baseURL = 'http://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/';
		var seriesID = 'OEUN000000054192027402104';
		var signature = baseURL + seriesID;
		var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
		req.open("GET", signature, false);
		req.send(null);
		console.log(JSON.parse(req.responseText));