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insee_melodi

Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) — Melodi API

Name: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE) — Melodi API
Creator: Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
License: https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence

Open · redistributedEtalab Open Licence 2.0Macroeconomics

Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

139

Temporal coverage

1901-12-31 – 2026-12-31

Licensing & provenance

License: Etalab Open Licence 2.0
License URL: https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/licence-ouverte-open-licence
Required attribution: Source: INSEE (Melodi), www.insee.fr — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://www.insee.fr
Provider terms: https://www.data.gouv.fr/pages/legal/licences/etalab-2.0

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download insee_melodi series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/insee_melodi
Update cadence: monthly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: sdmx delta
Storage layout: overwrite-multi-file — one parquet per dataflow, data/clean_full/insee_melodi/{FLOW_CODE}.parquet (verified 79 files; schema flow, series_key, obs_date, value). series_key is the sorted non-TIME dimension tuple. Some flows large (DS_BPE* ~25 MB each).

Full description

INSEE Melodi API ingest -- all 109 dataflows, keyless. Melodi is INSEE's new unified data catalog API. No authentication needed ('libre' / keyless plan). 30 req/min rate limit. 109 dataflows covering: national accounts (CNA), employment, prices, foreign trade, industry, construction, services, demographics, and more. Each dataflow's data is fetched from /data/{FLOW_CODE} as JSON. License: Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 — commercial redistribution OK. Attribution: Source: INSEE Melodi (Licence Ouverte 2.0) www.insee.fr API: https://api.insee.fr/melodi (keyless, 30 req/min) Run: python jobs/ingest_insee_melodi.py [--dry]

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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Part of the Econ Data Library catalog · metadata generated 2026-08-02 from the central registry · browse all datasets