FOMCscrape

Scrapes the FED-website for the dates of the Federal Open Market Committee

What is the FOMC?

Find out here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomc.htm

When does the FOMC meet?

The Federal Reserve makes currently makes available its schedule on this webpage https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomccalendars.htm

How does FOMCscrape work?

• This webscraper has two key functions which act separately to:
  1. scrape_fomc_dates: scrape data from 1940 to 2012
  • This data is availabe from the historical page provided for each year to 2012
  2. scrape_post_2013: scrape data from 2013 onwards
  • This data is available at the fomccalendars page