29 March 2023 9:22 AM

Using the Open Data Service Interface

Using the Open Data Service Interface (full document)

1 Loading Data Using API

Go to the address:  Bank of Finland / Financial Supervisory Authority open data developer portal (boffsaopendata.fi). There is no need to register or log in to the service. Choose from the top of the page "APIS" and select newest version of the Time series statistics (while writing it was v4):

2 Dataset Names

To retrieve the names of datasets, go to "GET dataset" in the developer portal. Here you can find information about the names, descriptions, and the number of time series in the Bank of Finland's data sets. Search the list of datasets by clicking "Try it" and explore the datasets.

Press "send" from the bottom of the page.

Copy "Request URL" field and open the dataset with for example Excel (see Search for Time Series Observations further in the instructions).You can also check the information directly from the "Response Content" section. For example, a user looking for information on household loans and deposits could take a closer look at the time series of the MFI_PUBL dataset.

3 Retrieval of Time Series Observations

Select "GET observations" to access observations of the timeseries. Instructions open to the webpage for each field. Dataset field and seriesName are the most important fields from the user point of view.

Press "Try it" to search observations. Use semicolon to separate timeseries when accessing multiple time series. Don't add spaces between multiple timeseries in "seriesName" field. For example when using timeseries M.A.0.A.L20.A.A.U6.2250.ZZ.EUR.A.A.0.A.0.A.0 and M.A.1.A.L20.A.A.U6.2250.ZZ.EUR.A.A.0.A.0.A.0 from dataset MFI_PUBL, write MFI_PUBL to "dataset" field and write M.A.0.A.L20.A.A.U6.2250.ZZ.EUR.A.A.0.A.0.A.0;M.A.1.A.L20.A.A.U6.2250.ZZ.EUR.A.A.0.A.0.A.0 to "seriesName" field.