# Currency Exchange Rates Scraper - Live & Historical FX (`inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper`) Actor

Get live and historical currency exchange rates and convert amounts between 30 currencies. Official European Central Bank reference rates — no API key, no proxy.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [inovaflow](https://apify.com/inovaflow) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Other, Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 fx rates

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Currency Exchange Rates Scraper

Get **live and historical foreign-exchange rates** and **convert amounts** between
30 currencies — official **European Central Bank reference rates**. No API key, no proxy,
no rate-limit sign-up.

### What it does

Just fill in the fields you need and the Actor does the rest. Set a base currency (and, optionally, which currencies you care about),
then use any combination of the optional fields:

| You fill in… | You get |
|--------------|---------|
| **nothing** | Today's latest rate for 1 unit of the base in each target. |
| **Amount to convert** | Every rate row also shows the converted value (amount × rate). |
| **Date** | The rate on that specific business day, back to 1999. |
| **Start date (+ End date)** | A rate for every business day across the range. |

Fill in several and you get all of them in one run — e.g. an amount *and* a start
date gives you a converted daily time series. Each output row is tagged so mixed
results stay easy to tell apart.

Rates are the official European Central Bank daily reference rates, published on business
days only; asking for a weekend or holiday returns the most recent prior business day.

### Input

- **Base currency** — 3-letter code to price against (default `USD`).
- **Target currencies** — list of codes (e.g. `EUR`, `GBP`, `JPY`). Empty = all.
- **Amount to convert** *(optional)* — adds a converted column to every row.
- **Date** *(optional)* — `YYYY-MM-DD`; rates for one past business day.
- **Start date / End date** *(optional)* — `YYYY-MM-DD`; a daily time series (empty end = up to today).

#### Example

Convert 100 USD into three currencies at the latest rates — just an amount, no dates:

```json
{
    "baseCurrency": "USD",
    "targetCurrencies": ["EUR", "GBP", "JPY"],
    "amount": 100
}
```

### Output

One tidy row per currency (per date, for a time series):

```json
{
    "date": "2026-08-17",
    "base": "USD",
    "target": "EUR",
    "rate": 0.86259,
    "amount": 100,
    "converted": 86.259,
    "mode": "latest",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-17T23:30:33.535Z"
}
```

`mode` records which lookup produced the row — `latest` (today's rates), `historical`
(one past date) or `timeseries` (a date range) — handy when one run mixes several.
When you don't pass an amount, `amount` and `converted` are `null`.

### Supported currencies

AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DKK, EUR, GBP, HKD, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, ISK, JPY,
KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PLN, RON, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, USD, ZAR — the ECB's
current reference set (30 currencies; BGN was retired when Bulgaria adopted the euro
in January 2026).

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$0.001 per rate row** (about $1 per 1,000 rows) plus Apify's standard
$0.00005 run-start fee — you pay only for rows you actually receive. A single latest/convert
run over all currencies is ~30 rows; a one-year daily time series for one currency is
\~260 rows. Narrow the target currencies and date range to keep runs small.

# Actor input Schema

## `baseCurrency` (type: `string`):

The 3-letter currency code to price everything against, e.g. USD, EUR, GBP, JPY. Rates tell you how much 1 unit of the base is worth in each target currency.

## `targetCurrencies` (type: `array`):

Which currencies to return rates for, e.g. EUR, GBP, JPY. Leave empty to get every available currency (30).

## `amount` (type: `integer`):

Optional. If set, every rate row also shows the converted value (amount × rate). Leave empty to just get the rates.

## `date` (type: `string`):

Optional. Get rates for one specific past date, as YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. 2020-01-02). Rates go back to 1999. Leave empty for today's latest rates. A weekend or holiday returns the most recent prior business day.

## `startDate` (type: `string`):

Optional. First date of a range, as YYYY-MM-DD — set this to get a daily time series over time. Leave empty if you don't need a range.

## `endDate` (type: `string`):

Optional. Last date of the range, as YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty to run up to today. Only used together with Start date.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "baseCurrency": "USD",
  "targetCurrencies": [],
  "amount": 100,
  "date": "2020-01-02",
  "startDate": "2024-01-01",
  "endDate": "2024-01-31"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "targetCurrencies": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "targetCurrencies": [] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "targetCurrencies": []
}' |
apify call inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,inovaflow/currency-rates-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/G9yORtGgXxKuVtkmZ/builds/4zhRTWC4ubsQC9sXT/openapi.json