Currency Data API

About this Cloud Hub Solution:

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Currency Data API offers a straightforward REST API that provides real-time and historical exchange rates for 168 world currencies. The API delivers currency pairs in a universally usable JSON format, making it compatible with any application.

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The API retrieves spot exchange rate data from several major forex data providers in real-time, validates, processes, and delivers it at various intervals, including:

• Hourly
• Every 10 minutes
• Within the 60-second market window

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The Currency Data API provides the most representative forex market value available, known as the "midpoint" value, for every API request. This makes it an ideal solution for powering:

• Currency converters
• Mobile applications
• Financial software components
• Back-office systems

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By leveraging the Currency Data API, businesses and developers can access accurate and reliable exchange rate data, enabling them to build robust and efficient financial systems.

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Available Endpoints

/list Returns all available currencies

/live Get the most recent exchange rate data.

/convert Convert one currency to another.

/historical Get historical rates for a specific day.

/timeframe Request exchange rates for a specific period of time.

/change Request any currency's change parameters (margin, percentage).

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Supported Symbols

The Currency Data API comes with a constantly updated endpoint returning all available currencies. To access this list, make a request to the API's list endpoint.

{
  "success": true,
  "symbols": {
    "AED": "United Arab Emirates Dirham",
    "AFN": "Afghan Afghani",
    "ALL": "Albanian Lek",
    "AMD": "Armenian Dram"
  }
}

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Tips

To minimize bandwidth usage, you can limit the number of output currencies to a specific set of your choice on most API endpoints.

To achieve this, simply append the API's symbols parameter to your API request and set it to one or more comma-separated currency codes.

curl --request GET 'https://api.apilayer.com/currency_data/live?base=USD&symbols=EUR,GBP' \--header 'apikey: YOUR API KEY'

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In addition to converting currencies using current exchange rates, it is also possible to perform conversions using historical exchange rate data.

To do this, simply include the API's date parameter in your request and set it to your preferred date.

(format YYYY-MM-DD)curl --request GET 'https://api.apilayer.com/currency_data/convert?base=USD&symbols=EUR,GBP,JPY&amount=5&date=2018-01-01' \--header 'apikey: YOUR API KEY'