ecb_metadata: Fetch European Central Bank (ECB) metadata

In bbk: Client for Central Bank APIs

Fetch European Central Bank (ECB) metadata

Description

Retrieve metadata from the ECB time series database via the SDMX Web Service.

Usage

ecb_metadata(type, agency = NULL, id = NULL)

Arguments

type	(character(1)) The type of metadata to query. One of: "datastructure", "dataflow", "codelist", or "concept".
agency	(NULL | character(1)) The id of the agency to query. Default NULL.
id	(NULL | character(1)) The id of the resource to query. Default NULL.

Value

A data.table::data.table() with the requested metadata. The columns are:

agency	The agency of the metadata
id	The id of the metadata
name	The name of the metadata

Source

https://data.ecb.europa.eu/help/api/metadata

See Also

Other metadata: bbk_metadata(), onb_dimension(), onb_frequency(), onb_hierarchy(), onb_metadata(), onb_toc()

Examples

ecb_metadata("datastructure")
ecb_metadata("datastructure", "ECB")
ecb_metadata("datastructure", "ECB", "ECB_EXR1")
ecb_metadata("datastructure", id = "ECB_EXR1")

bbk documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:07 p.m.