Bank of Korea ECOS CLI

Minimal command-line client for the Bank of Korea Economic Statistics System (ECOS) Open API.

• List available statistic tables
• Fetch time series by statistic code and frequency (A,S,Q,M,D)
• JSON output, suitable for piping to jq or saving to files

Installation

Clone and run in a virtualenv (or install once on your host/agent image):

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

Usage

Environment variables:

• BOK_API_KEY (required) — your ECOS API key
• BOK_LANG (optional) — kr or en (default: kr)

Examples:

# Help
ecos-cli -h

# List statistic tables (first 1000)
ecos-cli table-list | jq '.[] | .[]? // .'

# Fetch a monthly time series for a statistic code between start/end dates
ecos-cli series 722Y001 M 202001 202412 | jq .

Notes:

• Date formats depend on the cycle: YYYY for A/S, YYYYQQ for Q (ECOS accepts YYYYQ# in some cases), YYYYMM for M, YYYYMMDD for D.
• Output structure is a direct passthrough of the ECOS JSON response.

API references

• ECOS API portal: https://ecos.bok.or.kr/api/
• StatisticTableList: /StatisticTableList/{API_KEY}/json/{lang}/{start}/{end}/
• StatisticSearch: /StatisticSearch/{API_KEY}/json/{lang}/{start}/{end}/{STAT_CODE}/{CYCLE}/{START}/{END}/