This is a self hosted, free, currency exchange rate api, free demo at exchange-rate.bai.uno.
The current and historical foreign exchange rates data are from European Central Bank .
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Latest date will be returned, if the date was not in Euro Central Bank history records
Get the latest foreign exchange rates.
GET /api/latestGet historical rates for any day since 1999.
GET /api/2018-03-26Rates are quoted against the Euro by default. Quote against a different currency by setting the base parameter in your request.
GET /api/latest?base=USDRequest specific exchange rates by setting the symbols parameter.
GET /api/latest?symbols=USD,GBPGet historical rates for a time period.
GET /api/history?start_at=2018-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01Limit results to specific exchange rates to save bandwidth with the symbols parameter.
GET /api/history?start_at=2018-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01&symbols=ILS,JPYQuote the historical rates against a different currency.
GET /api/history?start_at=2018-01-01&end_at=2018-09-01&base=USDThe primary use case is client side. For instance, with money.js in the browser
let demo = () => {
let rate = fx(1).from("GBP").to("USD")
alert("£1 = $" + rate.toFixed(4))
}
fetch('https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/latest')
.then((resp) => resp.json())
.then((data) => fx.rates = data.rates)
.then(demo)This project is a fork from ExchangeRatesApi project, the original project is great, but as a project, is seems like they have some outdated dependencies (security issues) and difficulties to deploy.
| Difference | Original | Fork |
|---|---|---|
| sanic version | 0.8.x | latest |
| python | 3.6 | 3.10 |
| pin dependencies | false | true |
| deploy to heroku | one click | not one click yet, but it could be deployed to heroku easily through the docker image |
| deploy as container | got some problem | easy |
| xml parser | xml.etree | defusedxml |