EXCHANGE RATES IN RWANDA

A scraper app that extracts exchange rates from Rwanda National Bank website (bnr.rw) Extracted data are saved in csv file and displayed in terminal. In fact, This app extracts data from 2 websites:

1. bnr.rw : a list of exchange rates and currency codes
2. pkgstore.datahub.io : a list of country names and currency codes It adds country name to the exchange rates list by matching currency codes

Required installations

This app requires the following packages to be installed on you system:

• Ruby 2.7.0
• Gem 3.1.2

Setup configurations

To get this app ready to run, follow this steps:

• clone this repo

    pc:~$ git clone git@github.com:mugberto/exchange-rates-in-rwf.git
  

• move into the root directory

    pc:~$ cd exchange-rates-in-rwf/
  

• install require gems

    pc:~$ gem install nokogiri -v 1.10.10
    
    pc:~$ gem install selenium-webdriver -v 3.142.7
  

How to use it

Once you have all you require packages and gems installed. Open your terminal in the root directory and enter this command:

pc$ ruby run.rb

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Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome! ​ Feel free to check the issues page. ​

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Author

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👤 Hubert MUGABO

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• Github: @mugberto
• Twitter: @mugberto
• Linkedin: mugberto

Acknowledgement

• Microverse
• The open source community