Currency Foreign Exchange API with History

This API will help currency analysts to query current foreign exchange rates and also query the historical time series of the currencies.

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Two APIs are available

*/forex This will return the current exchange rates of all currencies as per the current cob in JSON format. These rates are denominated in EUR as the base currency.

{ "cobDate": 20221223, "baseCurrency": "EUR", "targetCurrency": "USD", "value": 1.0622, "date": "2022-12-23", "lastUpdated": "2022-12-23T16:00:32.000+00:00", "change": -0.0011, "pctChange": -0.1036, "targetCurrencyName": "US dollar", "targetCountryISO": "US", "importance": 6 }

*/forex/{currency} -> /forex/USD This will return the time series of the target currency mentioned in the {currency} parameter. These rates are denominated in EUR as the base currency.

[ { "cobDate": 20200616, "baseCurrency": "EUR", "targetCurrency": "USD", "value": 1.1308, "date": "2020-06-16", "lastUpdated": "2021-01-30T16:00:15.000+00:00", "change": 0.0055, "pctChange": 0.4864, "targetCurrencyName": null, "targetCountryISO": null, "importance": null } ,{ "cobDate": 20200617, "baseCurrency": "EUR", "targetCurrency": "USD", "value": 1.1232, "date": "2020-06-17", "lastUpdated": "2021-01-30T16:00:15.000+00:00", "change": -0.0076, "pctChange": -0.6766, "targetCurrencyName": null, "targetCountryISO": null, "importance": null }]

you can call the APIs like

aws dataexchange send-api-asset \ --data-set-id [subscription-data-set-id] \ --revision-id [subscription-revision-id] \ --asset-id [subscription-asset-id] \ --method GET \ --path "/forex" aws dataexchange send-api-asset \ --data-set-id [subscription-data-set-id] \ --revision-id [subscription-revision-id] \ --asset-id [subscription-asset-id] \ --method GET \ --path "/forex/USD"

Python code for client

import json import boto3 CLIENT = boto3.client('dataexchange', region_name = 'us-east-1',aws_access_key_id='ACCOUNT_ACCESSS_KEY_ID',aws_secret_access_key= 'ACCOUNT_SECRET_ACCESSS_KEY') DATA_SET_ID = 'SUBSCRIPTION_DATA_SET_ID' REVISION_ID = 'SUBSCRIPTION_REVISION_ID' ASSET_ID = 'SUBSCRIPTION_ASSET_ID' METHOD = 'GET' PATH = '/forex' response = CLIENT.send_api_asset( DataSetId=DATA_SET_ID, RevisionId=REVISION_ID, AssetId=ASSET_ID, Method=METHOD, Path=PATH ) print(response['Body'])

Description	Value
Data Format(s)	JSON
Geographic coverage	All Currencies
Historical coverage	Data starting 20200611
Universe coverage	All Major Currencies
Unique identifiers	Currency Code
Update frequency	Daily (Except on weekends or holidays)
Update time	T+1 8 am EST
File size range	In KBs
Update Type (Incremental updates vs. Full refresh)	Daily incremental as per the new cob
Data Source(s)	Various
File size range	in KBs

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