Service metadata

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/businesssurvey-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/businesssurvey-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/businesssurvey-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/businesssurvey-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "orderbooks and sellingprices take countries_only (true to drop aggregates). country takes country (ISO-3 code or name, required) and returns the full survey panel. meta takes no parameters. Balances are percentage points around zero (positive = expansion/optimism); the change is month-on-month. Monthly data; a multi-hour protective cache fronts the OECD upstream.",
        "source": "OECD Business Tendency Surveys (DF_BTS, manufacturing) via OECD SDMX API, percentage balance, seasonally adjusted, live, keyless",
        "germany": {
            "period": "2026-05",
            "order_books": -28.7,
            "selling_prices": 30.9
        },
        "service": "businesssurvey-api",
        "economies": 35,
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/country": "One economy's full manufacturing survey panel (country=DEU).",
            "GET /v1/orderbooks": "Economies ranked by the order-books balance (current demand).",
            "GET /v1/sellingprices": "Economies ranked by the selling-price balance (pipeline inflation)."
        },
        "description": "Business tendency survey — what manufacturers report about order books, output, prices, exports and hiring, live from the OECD's business surveys (no key). It exposes the manufacturing survey components as percentage balances: order books, production expectations, selling-price expectations, employment expectations and export order books. country returns one economy's full survey panel; orderbooks ranks economies by the order-books balance (current demand); sellingprices ranks by the selling-price balance (a leading pipeline-inflation gauge). Soft data that leads the hard numbers. The survey-components cut — distinct from the composite Business & Consumer Confidence board (only the headline index), the leading-indicator board, and the generic data aggregator.",
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-12T19:36:37.043Z",
        "request_id": "90c0bdd6-cb84-4b88-9a1b-a5fb9f959a71"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}