Most official sources don’t publish a proper real-time feed, so getting releases the moment they drop usually means scraping each central bank or stats agency yourself, which is brittle and slower than you’d expect. That’s why the economic-calendar sites use their own aggregation layers rather than the raw government pages.
If you just need clean, real-time macro data for FX (rates, inflation, employment, GDP, etc.), I built an API FXMacroData that pulls everything directly from the primary announcements and normalises it. The dashboard screenshot shows how the latest interest-rate and CPI values are captured as they’re released. You can call it from MQL4 with simple HTTP requests, so it saves you dealing with a dozen different sources and formats.
