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Brazil Central Bank Open Data

Brazil's economic time-series (SGS system)

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The Banco Central do Brasil serves thousands of economic time series through its SGS API. This sample pulls the latest USD/BRL PTAX reference rate; any series is addressable by its numeric code.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 78 · healthy
Uptime history
96.1%90 days
96.7%30 days
1432P50 · ms
4572P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 578 ms, slowest 3078 ms, most recent 964 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=json

[
  {
    "data": "03/07/2026",
    "valor": "5.1717"
  }
]
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=json"
const res = await fetch("https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.bcb.gov.br/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=json1432 mschecked 12h ago
GET/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1?formato=jsonPROBED

Brazil's economic time-series (SGS system)

GET/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos

Ultimos — documented GET route.

GET/dados/serie/bcdata.sgs.1/dados/ultimos/1

Ultimos details by ID (example: 1).

GET/dados

Dados — documented GET route.

GET/dados/1

Dados details by ID (example: 1).

GET/dados?limit=10

Dados — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

Brazil Central Bank Open Data: common questions

Is Brazil Central Bank Open Data free to use?

Yes — Brazil Central Bank Open Data is a free government API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does Brazil Central Bank Open Data need an API key?

No — Brazil Central Bank Open Data needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call Brazil Central Bank Open Data from the browser?

Yes — Brazil Central Bank Open Data returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is Brazil Central Bank Open Data up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, Brazil Central Bank Open Data is healthy with 96.1% uptime over 90 days and a 1432 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.