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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/worldbank-api/v1/indicators" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/worldbank-api/v1/indicators", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/worldbank-api/v1/indicators");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/worldbank-api/v1/indicators",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "page": 1,
        "pages": 8,
        "total": 1486,
        "returned": 7,
        "indicators": [
            {
                "id": "BG.GSR.NFSV.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Trade in services (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Economy & Growth",
                    "Private Sector",
                    "Trade"
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "BM.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Foreign direct investment, net outflows (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Economy & Growth",
                    "Financial Sector "
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "BN.CAB.XOKA.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Current account balance (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Economy & Growth"
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "BX.KLT.DINV.WD.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Economy & Growth",
                    "Financial Sector ",
                    "Climate Change"
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Personal remittances, received (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Economy & Growth",
                    "Financial Sector "
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "CM.MKT.LCAP.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Market capitalization of listed domestic companies (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Financial Sector "
                ]
            },
            {
                "id": "CM.MKT.TRAD.GD.ZS",
                "name": "Stocks traded, total value (% of GDP)",
                "source": "World Development Indicators",
                "topics": [
                    "Financial Sector "
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-30T18:17:00.903Z",
        "request_id": "f505f618-22bc-4c0f-8a03-db3fe3359cfb"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Indicators retrieved",
    "success": true
}