Tradingeconomics wants you to pay a ridiculous amount for the privilege of exporting public data as csv.
Their site obtains economic data from some api in base64, gzip and XOR encrypted form. I (kinda, got help from Chatgpt) made a script to decrypt and convert data to a readable excel sheet.
https://pastebin.com/raw/gxXZnN37
yea i should've made that clear in my original post