# Improving Brazilian database

**URL:** <https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/improving-brazilian-database/175>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [August 16, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/improving-brazilian-database/175 "2018-08-16T21:14:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![henrique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@henrique](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/henrique)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/improving-brazilian-database/175/1 "2018-08-16T21:14:33Z")

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Dear DB.nomics Team,

I would like to help DB.nomics. I think I could help you improving Brazilian database (BCB and IBGE, the largest providers of public economic time series here in Brazil).

I already have some R code (written by me and a friend) to download a huge amount of data from BCB and IBGE.

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**Author:** ![cbenz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/dbnomics.discourse.group/cbenz/32/33_2.png) [@cbenz](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/u/cbenz)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://dbnomics.discourse.group/t/improving-brazilian-database/175/2 "2018-08-17T11:09:47Z")

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Hello @henrique,

Thanks for your interest in DBnomics, and for proposing your help!

Is your R code published somewhere?

We already wrote a fetcher to download data from BCB: [https://next.nomics.world/BCB](https://next.nomics.world/BCB) (source code: [https://git.nomics.world/dbnomics-fetchers/bcb-fetcher](https://git.nomics.world/dbnomics-fetchers/bcb-fetcher)). We do not plan writing a fetcher for IBGE (you can see our [milestones](https://git.nomics.world/dbnomics-fetchers/management/milestones)).

What would you like to do to help? Did you find any problems that we could fix, or would you like to write a new fetcher?

Best Regards

Christophe