How to Export Federal Reserve H.15 Interest Rate Data to CSV or PDF in One Click (Free Userscript)

If you work with interest rate data professionally, you already know the Federal Reserve's H.15 Selected Interest Rates release. It is one of the most comprehensive and authoritative sources of interest rate data available anywhere — Treasury yields across multiple maturities, federal funds rates, commercial paper rates, bank prime loans, corporate bond yields, mortgage rates, and more, all published consistently by the Federal Reserve itself.

The problem is not the data. The data is excellent. The problem is getting it out of the page and into a format you can actually work with.

The official H.15 page presents the data in an HTML table. It looks clean enough on screen, but the moment you try to do something useful with it — import it into Excel, run analysis in Python, include it in a professional report, compare it against historical figures in a database — you hit a wall. There is no export button. There is no download link. There is no built-in way to get the data out in CSV, Excel, or any other structured format without either copying it manually or building a custom scraper from scratch.

For a one-time lookup, manual copying is annoying but manageable. For anyone who works with this data regularly — tracking rate movements, updating models, building reports, monitoring yield curves — it is a recurring friction that adds up to a significant amount of wasted time over weeks and months.

This userscript eliminates that friction entirely.

Introducing Federal Reserve H.15 — Export and Enhance

Federal Reserve H.15 Export and Enhance is a free Tampermonkey userscript that adds a clean, professional floating toolbar directly to the Federal Reserve H.15 interest rates page. It does not modify the page in any disruptive way — the original table and all of its content remain exactly as they are. What the script adds is a set of powerful export tools that sit alongside the existing page, ready to use whenever you need them.

The toolbar gives you one-click access to CSV export, PDF export, a row and column selection mode for custom data cuts, and text selection enabling straightforward copying. Everything is accessible from a single interface that appears automatically when you visit the H.15 page, with no configuration required after installation.

CSV Export: Clean, Structured Data Ready for Analysis

The CSV export is the feature that will matter most to anyone doing quantitative work with interest rate data. Click the button and the full H.15 table downloads as a properly formatted CSV file — column headers intact, data correctly separated, and everything in the right order.

From there, the possibilities are immediate. Open it in Excel or Google Sheets for quick analysis or charting. Import it into a Python script using pandas for more sophisticated processing. Feed it into a database for historical tracking and comparison. Combine it with other datasets for multivariable financial modelling. The CSV format is the universal entry point for data workflows, and having the H.15 data in that format means it plugs directly into whatever analytical environment you are already using.

The full table export covers everything on the page, but the script also includes a row and column selection mode for situations where you only need a specific subset of the data. If you are tracking Treasury yields and have no need for commercial paper rates, you can select exactly the rows and columns you want and export just that slice. The result is a cleaner, more focused dataset that requires less cleanup before use.

This matters more than it might seem. Anyone who has ever imported a large financial data table into Excel and spent twenty minutes deleting irrelevant columns knows how much time the selection mode can save across a regular workflow.

PDF Export: Professional Reports Without the Formatting Work

The PDF export serves a different but equally important purpose. Where CSV is built for analysis, the PDF is built for communication — sharing data with colleagues, including it in reports, presenting it to clients, or archiving a snapshot of rates at a specific point in time.

The exported PDF uses clean, professional formatting with a cover page that includes the release date and source attribution. The table layout is print-ready, meaning the data is legible, properly organised, and looks like something that belongs in a professional document rather than a raw web scrape. If you regularly include Federal Reserve rate data in client reports, research papers, or internal financial summaries, the PDF export removes the entire formatting step that currently sits between the data and the deliverable.

The cover page with source attribution is a small detail that makes a meaningful difference in professional contexts. When you are presenting data to clients or submitting research to colleagues, having the source and date clearly documented on the document itself eliminates questions about where the data came from and when it was pulled.

Who This Tool Is Built For

The H.15 release covers a wide enough range of rate data that it is relevant across a surprisingly broad set of professional contexts, and the export tool reflects that.

Financial analysts and economists who track interest rate movements as part of their regular work — monitoring yield curve changes, modelling rate expectations, and analyzing spreads between different instruments — need this data in structured form on a consistent basis. Having a one-click export means that updating a rate tracking spreadsheet or feeding new data into an existing model takes seconds rather than minutes.

Researchers and academics studying monetary policy, credit markets, financial history, or macroeconomic dynamics frequently need H.15 data for empirical analysis. The CSV export integrates directly with the statistical tools most researchers already use — R, Python, Stata, and MATLAB — without requiring any custom data collection infrastructure.

Data journalists and financial writers covering interest rate trends, Federal Reserve policy decisions, or credit market developments need accurate, cleanly formatted data quickly. Being able to pull the latest H.15 figures into a spreadsheet or directly into a chart in seconds makes the difference between data that supports a story and data that slows one down.

Excel and Python users doing any kind of financial modelling, back-testing, or data visualisation that involves interest rates will find the CSV export immediately useful. The H.15 data covers enough instruments and enough historical periods to be relevant across a wide range of modelling contexts, and having reliable one-click access to it in a format that works with standard tools is genuinely valuable.

Students and instructors in finance, economics, and related fields frequently work with Federal Reserve data for coursework, research projects, and classroom examples. The export tool makes it practical to work with real, current data without needing technical skills to extract it.

Text Selection for Quick Reference Work

Beyond the full export options, the script also enables text selection on the H.15 page — something that sounds minor but is surprisingly useful for quick reference work. The Federal Reserve page restricts text selection by default, which means even copying a single rate figure for a quick calculation requires workarounds. With text selection enabled by the script, you can highlight and copy individual cells, rows, or any portion of the table without any friction.

For analysts who frequently reference specific rate figures while working in other documents or applications, this alone is a quality-of-life improvement worth having.

Installation Is Simple

Install Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey from your browser's extension store — both are free and widely supported across Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Click the script link and install it through the extension interface. Visit the Federal Reserve H.15 page, and the floating toolbar appears automatically.

No accounts. No API keys. No configuration. The script activates on the H.15 page and is ready to use immediately after installation.