💰 goexrates

A foreign exchange rates and currency conversion API. Golang implementation of fixer.io (Ruby). Data from European Central Bank API.

The rates are updated daily around 4PM CET.

Usage

Get the latest foreign exchange reference rates in JSON format.

GET /latest
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Get historical rates for any day since 1999-01-04.

GET /2008-03-18
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Rates are quoted against the Euro by default. Quote against a different currency by setting the base parameter in your request.

GET /latest?base=USD
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Request specific exchange rates by setting the symbols parameter.

GET /latest?symbols=USD,GBP
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Response format.

{
    "base": "EUR",
    "date": "2017-05-05",
    "rates": {
        "AUD": 1.4832,
        "PLN": 4.2173,
        "MYR": 4.7543,
        "USD": 1.0961,
        "...": "and so on...",
    }
}

Run

go run goexrates.go

TODO

• Requests caching

Important note

Currently this API is available here but it might change at any time. I created it for .go learning purposes.