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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cpiinflation-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cpiinflation-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cpiinflation-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/cpiinflation-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": "board and core take countries_only (true to drop aggregates such as the euro area or OECD total). country takes country (ISO-3 code or name, required). meta takes no parameters. Rates are percent year-on-year; the core rate excludes food and energy. Each row carries its own month; discontinued national series are filtered out. Monthly data; a multi-hour protective cache fronts the OECD upstream.",
        "source": "OECD price statistics (DF_PRICES_ALL, national CPI, GY year-on-year) via OECD SDMX API, percent per annum, live, keyless",
        "service": "cpiinflation-api",
        "economies": 46,
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/core": "Economies ranked by core CPI inflation (excluding food & energy).",
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/board": "Economies ranked by headline CPI inflation, core shown alongside (countries_only optional).",
            "GET /v1/country": "One economy's full inflation breakdown — headline, core, food, energy, services (country=USA)."
        },
        "description": "Live CPI inflation rate by country — the headline consumer-price inflation print broken into its core and its drivers, from the OECD's official price statistics (no key). It exposes the year-on-year national CPI: the headline all-items rate, the core rate (excluding food and energy) that central banks steer by, and the food, energy and services component rates, for ~50 economies. board ranks by headline with core alongside; core ranks by the core rate; country gives one economy's full breakdown with a headline-vs-core read. The realised-inflation cut — distinct from the inflation calculator (arithmetic, not live data), consumer inflation expectations (a survey of what households expect, not what prices did), and unit labour costs/wages.",
        "united_states": {
            "code": "USA",
            "core": 2.85,
            "food": 2.74,
            "name": "United States",
            "energy": 23.54,
            "period": "2026-05",
            "headline": 4.25,
            "services": null,
            "is_aggregate": false
        },
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-12T19:36:28.528Z",
        "request_id": "e2b2ae82-cb4f-49aa-9979-94ef85650c1e"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}