{"categories":[{"label":"WWW/HTTP","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet-www-http/7"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Structured Python interface to fetch Brazilian Central Bank open data APIs, including time series, exchange rates, market expectations, and financial institution information.","skillfed_tags":["financial-data","brazil","odata"],"use_cases":["Fetch historical Selic or IPCA rates for inflation and interest rate analysis.","Retrieve daily USD/BRL exchange rates with buy/sell spreads for currency trading or financial reporting.","Query market consensus forecasts from the FOCUS bulletin for economic scenario planning.","Build dashboards or reports aggregating multiple BCB data sources concurrently with async methods.","Access real estate financing data and financial institution balance sheets for regulatory or research analysis."],"what_it_does":"python-bcb is a Python wrapper for the Brazilian Central Bank's open data APIs, providing structured access to economic and financial datasets. It abstracts three main data sources: SGS (time-series economic indicators like interest rates and inflation), a currency converter for daily exchange rates, and OData endpoints for market expectations, interest rates, real estate financing, and financial institution data.\n\nThe package handles HTTP requests via httpx with connection pooling, parses responses into pandas DataFrames, and supports both synchronous and asynchronous retrieval. It includes built-in retry logic via tenacity, caches metadata where appropriate, and raises specific exceptions for common failure modes (rate limits, invalid series codes, missing currencies). Typical use is fetching historical economic time series for analysis, but it also supports ad-hoc queries with SQL-like filtering on OData endpoints.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need Brazilian Central Bank data. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and provides a clean interface to otherwise fragmented APIs. License treatment is unclear, so verify terms before use in proprietary projects. No known vulnerabilities. Requires Python 3.10+."},"id":"python-bcb","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/python-bcb","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/python-bcb.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/python-bcb/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-06-15","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"python-bcb","python_support":"supports_current","summary":null},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":110379,"position":12465,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.4.0"}