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Tomasz Giba
Tomasz Giba

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How to get live currency rate(s) in command line

You need curl and jq packages:

sudo apt install curl jq
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You can do this using floatrates.com API. It's updated daily at midnight.

For USDPLN:

curl http://www.floatrates.com/daily/usd.json | jq .pln
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..or for USDEUR:

curl http://www.floatrates.com/daily/usd.json | jq .eur
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...and for EURUSD:

curl http://www.floatrates.com/daily/eur.json | jq .usd
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and so on.

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Tushar Tyagi

Very nice and simple explaination. Do you know if there any request limit on this API?

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Tomasz Giba

I would expect there is a limit, but I don't know what it is.