{"categories":[{"label":"Information Analysis","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-information-analysis/3"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides a provider extension for the OpenBB platform that exposes International Monetary Fund (IMF) data through standardized endpoints, handling SDMX API access to IMF dataflows with automatic metadata normalization and symbol-based querying.","skillfed_tags":["imf-data","economic-indicators","openbb-extension"],"use_cases":["Retrieve CPI or inflation data for multiple countries and time periods using standardized symbol syntax without learning IMF's SDMX parameter model.","Access direction-of-trade or shipping chokepoint data through OpenBB's economy module as part of a broader economic analysis workflow.","Build a dashboard or research tool that queries IMF indicators programmatically, leveraging OpenBB Workspace UI integration for metadata discovery.","Combine IMF time series with other OpenBB providers in a single Python script for cross-source economic data analysis.","Explore available IMF dataflows and their dimensions via utility endpoints to understand what data is available before constructing queries."],"what_it_does":"openbb-imf is a provider extension that plugs IMF data access into the OpenBB platform's economy module. It wraps the IMF's SDMX API (which organizes data into dataflows like CPI, trade, and shipping metrics) and translates it into OpenBB's standard symbol-based query interface. Instead of learning IMF's dimension-based parameter model, users construct simple ticker-like symbols (e.g., `CPI::CP01`) and call familiar OpenBB endpoints like `obb.economy.indicators()` or `obb.economy.cpi()`.\n\nThe extension handles the heavy lifting: it fetches and caches IMF metadata, validates user inputs against IMF's constraints API, converts IMF codes into human-readable labels, and returns results with both data and series metadata. It also exposes utility endpoints for discovering available dataflows, indicators, and presentation tables, which the OpenBB Workspace UI uses to populate dropdown menus. The package depends on openbb-core, openbb-economy, openbb-platform-api, async-lru for caching, and defusedxml for safe XML parsing.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are already using OpenBB and need IMF economic data. The extension integrates cleanly into the platform, has low install friction, and is actively maintained. However, the AGPL-3.0-only license requires that any code using this package (including derivative works) be open-sourced under the same license\u2014a significant constraint for proprietary applications. If you are building closed-source software, you will need to either accept the license terms or find an alternative IMF data source."},"id":"openbb-imf","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/openbb-imf","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/openbb-imf.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/openbb-imf/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-05-26","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"agpl","name":"openbb-imf","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"https://datahelp.imf.org/knowledgebase/articles/630877-api"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":86656,"position":13845,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2.1.3"}