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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/leadingindicators-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/leadingindicators-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/leadingindicators-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/leadingindicators-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 takes countries_only (true to drop aggregates). country takes country (ISO-3 code or name, required). phase and meta take no parameters. CLI values are index points around 100; phase = level (above/below 100) combined with direction (rising/falling). Monthly data; a multi-hour protective cache fronts the OECD upstream.",
        "source": "OECD Composite Leading Indicators via OECD SDMX API (amplitude-adjusted, MEASURE=LI/AA/methodology H), live, keyless",
        "service": "leadingindicators-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/board": "Every economy's CLI, change and business-cycle phase, ranked (countries_only optional).",
            "GET /v1/phase": "Economies grouped into the four phases of the business-cycle clock.",
            "GET /v1/country": "One economy's CLI — latest reading, change and phase (country=USA)."
        },
        "description": "OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI) — which economies are heading into expansion, slowdown, downturn or recovery, live from the OECD's official statistics (no key). The CLI leads GDP by ~6-9 months and oscillates around 100. board returns every tracked economy and aggregate with its CLI, month-on-month change and business-cycle phase, ranked; country returns one economy's CLI (latest reading, change and phase); phase groups every economy into the four-quadrant cycle clock (Expansion/Downturn/Slowdown/Recovery). The leading-indicator / business-cycle cut — distinct from the generic multi-provider data aggregator (raw series, not a curated CLI board), the government-bond-yield board, and inflation / central-bank-rate APIs.",
        "united_states": {
            "cli": 101.022,
            "phase": "Expansion"
        },
        "upstream_status": "ok",
        "tracked_economies": 22
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-12T19:37:54.620Z",
        "request_id": "67b99e06-1755-4959-93ae-ba0e5873051c"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}