Realtime currency webservice

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Anyone know of a real-time currency rate webservice with frequent update (multiple pr. min.). Needed for a small android app I'm building, so needs to be free.

You can discover how to implement your own currency rate service with black jack and other stuff ;) (http://developersblog.tk/currency-rate-manager-csh-wcf-wpf-mvvm/) — , Nov 13 '13 at 11:23

score 25 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 06 '12 at 00:03

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I would recommend European Central Bank. They provide a daily xml feed, nice and simple.

http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml

answered Aug 06 '12 at 00:03

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Excellent input, thank you.This deserves to be an answer. – Interface Unknown Feb 04 '16 at 16:08

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '11 at 11:35

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You can try Yahoo. It is free and easy to use.

For example, to convert from GBP to EUR: http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GBPEUR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv

gives you data in csv format which can easily be parsed.

answered Feb 02 '11 at 11:35

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Excellent! The Yahoo service provides real-time rates! – jaspernygaard Feb 02 '11 at 11:58
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This is not really free. [Read Robyns post](http://developer.yahoo.com/forum/General-Discussion-at-YDN/Using-Yahoo-Finance-API-Not-RSS-/1250246255000-0b82f8f0-7f48-3af2-8fe2-e73a138cbfaa) – cocoafan Mar 28 '12 at 22:21
@cocoafan : The link you have provide is not working i want to know why it is not free and how ? – Purushottam Sain Apr 26 '17 at 08:29
unfortunatelly, Yahoo shutted it down. – walv Nov 25 '17 at 05:06

score 11 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Have you tried with http://openexchangerates.org ?

You can use it's The Forever Free Plan with following features provided.

Hourly rate updates

Daily historical data

1,000 API requests per month

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Jun 20 '12 at 11:43

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This is not free. – Extra Savoir-Faire Mar 08 '13 at 14:54
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No, there is a free plan – mohammedn Sep 22 '13 at 11:02
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No it's not. They offer three options and no one is for free. – Timo.Klement Feb 28 '14 at 07:36
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Yes its free. They offer three options plus: We also have a Forever Free plan (hourly updates, 1000 requests/month - no HTTPS, email support or advanced features) – Dan Cook Jul 21 '14 at 15:54
it has free plan which is very limited. For example, you can't change base currency and it always stays USD. Also you can't use other APIs like timeseries etc. But for simple purposes it works. – walv Nov 25 '17 at 05:49

Dmitry Kirsanov · Answer 4 · 2021-02-10T11:48:45.163

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I would suggest Mondor's web service, especially the WebAPI one. Not free, but could be about 5$ per year, depending from your architecture. Anyway, here's the link: http://mondor.org

Edit: apparently, they have free keys now, or I missed them previously.

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answered Feb 26 '13 at 21:25

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 02 '11 at 11:30

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Real time financial services are usually not available for free. You will find a lot of delayed services ( tipically 15 min ) for free, but you have to make sure licensing allow you to use it in your own application as well.

answered Feb 02 '11 at 11:30

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I'll check up on licensing. However this is just an app for learning purposes. – jaspernygaard Feb 02 '11 at 11:58
so the seeingidog reply is the one to go for me as well. – Felice Pollano Feb 02 '11 at 12:54

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 05 '12 at 15:49

you have some webs where you can take this information. The problem... usually you need pay for this service. Same examples :

Realtime currency webservice

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