Fed Statement Scraping: FOMC Meeting Statements and Minutes

This repository by vtasca provides scraped text from Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting statements and minutes, tracking US monetary policy changes through February 2026. The data captures official communications from the Federal Reserve, including both high-level policy summaries and detailed meeting records.

Use Cases

• Sentiment analysis of FOMC statements to quantify shifts in US monetary policy stance
• Topic modeling on meeting minutes to identify recurring economic concerns like inflation or employment
• Linguistic comparison between short-form statements and long-form minutes for the same meeting date

Strengths

• Captures primary source text from the Federal Open Market Committee
• Automated collection of both summary statements and detailed minutes
• Maintained through February 2026

Limitations

• Undefined historical coverage range
• Absence of structured numerical metadata like interest rate targets
• Dependency on the stability of the Federal Reserve's web architecture for scraping

Provenance

Source

Federal Reserve (FOMC)

Collection Method

scraped

Freshness

Updated through February 2026.

Geography

United States