Notes on Old API (Deprecated)
This website began as an independent project with a straightforward goal: to make the economic data published by the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) more accessible and easier to interpret. At the time, the BCRA published its key statistics on a page called Principales Variables, but the data was presented in a format that was difficult to navigate and offered no visual representation. To address this, the site was built to extract that data regularly, process it, and display it through a series of reports and interactive charts.
As the project grew, it became clear that the underlying data pipeline — the mechanism used internally to fetch and serve information to the charts — could be valuable to others beyond just the readers of this site. Developers, researchers, economists, and journalists might want to consume the same data programmatically without having to scrape the BCRA's website themselves. With that in mind, the decision was made to open up the internal API and make it publicly available, complete with documentation and a registration system to manage access.
Over the years, the API was used by a number of external projects and integrations. However, the landscape has since changed significantly. The Central Bank of Argentina has now launched its own official public API, providing direct and authoritative access to its data. Given this development, continuing to operate and support a third-party alternative no longer serves a meaningful purpose. Maintaining a parallel API introduces unnecessary complexity and could lead users toward a less authoritative data source when an official one is readily available.
For these reasons, this API has been formally deprecated and is no longer operational. We encourage all users and integrations that previously relied on this API to migrate to the official BCRA API, which can be found at the address below: