# East Africa FX Rates — Official Central Bank Exchange Rates API (`malmon/east-africa-fx-rates`) Actor The only API pulling official daily FX rates directly from East African central banks — not World Bank annual releases. Covers Kenya (KES), Tanzania (TZS), Uganda (UGX) and Rwanda (RWF). Every record source-attributed with legal basis documented. - **URL**: https://apify.com/malmon/east-africa-fx-rates.md - **Developed by:** [Simon M](https://apify.com/malmon) (community) - **Categories:** Agents, News, Developer tools - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.10 / full market snapshot 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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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## East African FX Rates — Daily Central Bank Exchange Rates Official USD exchange rates published daily by East African central banks, normalised into one consistent schema. Covers **Tanzania** (BoT), **Rwanda** (BNR), **Ethiopia** (NBE), **Burundi** (BRB), **Comoros** (ECB-derived), and **Djibouti** (USD currency board) — 6 countries in total. Unlike the World Bank, IMF, or ECB datasets already on Apify — which publish African macro data **annually with a 6–12 month lag** — this actor pulls **fresh, daily** rates straight from the issuing institutions. > Part of a regional family: **West African FX Rates** · **East African FX Rates** (this actor) · Southern and North African actors in the same normalised schema. --- ### Modes Choose a mode to match your use case: | Mode | What you get | When to use it | |---|---|---| | `usd-core` *(default)* | One USD rate per country, latest available date | Daily monitoring, dashboards, FX baskets | | `all-currencies` | Every currency each central bank publishes, latest date | Multi-currency exposure, FX desks | | `historical` | USD rate per country, every trading day in a date range | Backtesting, time-series analysis, academic research | --- ### Input | Field | Type | Default | Description | |---|---|---|---| | `mode` | string | `usd-core` | See modes table above. | | `countries` | array | all 6 | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes to include. `TZ` Tanzania, `RW` Rwanda, `ET` Ethiopia, `BI` Burundi, `KM` Comoros, `DJ` Djibouti. | | `dateFrom` | string | — | Start date (`YYYY-MM-DD`). Required in `historical` mode. | | `dateTo` | string | — | End date (`YYYY-MM-DD`). Required in `historical` mode. | | `maxItems` | integer | 5000 | Hard cap on output rows. | --- ### Output One record per country per run (in `usd-core`), per country-currency (in `all-currencies`), or per country-day (in `historical`). **Rwanda (BNR) example:** ```json { "id": "RW:USD:2026-06-02:official", "country": "RW", "centralBank": "BNR", "baseCurrency": "USD", "quoteCurrency": "RWF", "pair": "USD/RWF", "date": "2026-06-02", "buying": 1459.015, "selling": 1469.015, "mid": 1464.015, "midMethod": "published", "inverseMid": 0.000683, "rateType": "official", "warnings": [], "source": { "name": "National Bank of Rwanda", "url": "https://www.bnr.rw/USD", "retrievedAt": "2026-06-02T08:00:00.000Z", "asOfDate": "2026-06-02", "licenseNote": "Factual exchange rate data reproduced from the BNR public website. No redistribution prohibition found." } } ```` Read it as: **1 USD = 1464.02 RWF** (buying: 1459.02, selling: 1469.02). **Comoros (KMF — ECB-derived) example:** ```json { "id": "KM:USD:2026-06-02:derived", "country": "KM", "centralBank": "BCC", "baseCurrency": "USD", "quoteCurrency": "KMF", "pair": "USD/KMF", "date": "2026-06-02", "buying": null, "selling": null, "mid": 422.34, "midMethod": "published", "inverseMid": 0.002368, "rateType": "derived", "warnings": [], "source": { "name": "BCC / ECB (derived daily)", "url": "https://data-api.ecb.europa.eu/service/data/EXR/D.USD.EUR.SP00.A", "retrievedAt": "2026-06-02T08:00:00.000Z", "asOfDate": "2026-06-02", "licenseNote": "EUR/USD source: ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (free reuse with attribution). USD/KMF derived using the fixed EUR/KMF peg of 491.96775.", "derivationNote": "USD/KMF = 491.96775 ÷ ECB daily EUR/USD reference rate. The EUR/KMF peg is fixed by French Treasury / EU treaty; derivation is exact, not estimated." } } ``` #### Field reference | Field | Meaning | |---|---| | `country` / `centralBank` | ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code + issuing bank abbreviation | | `baseCurrency` / `quoteCurrency` / `pair` | ISO 4217 codes. `pair` = `base/quote`. Read as: "price of 1 `baseCurrency` in `quoteCurrency`." | | `date` | The rate's as-of date (ISO 8601, `YYYY-MM-DD`) | | `buying` / `selling` / `mid` | Rates as published. `null` where the source doesn't publish that leg. BoT, BNR, NBE, and BRB publish all three. Comoros and Djibouti rates are derived from a fixed peg — no bid/ask spread exists, so `buying` and `selling` are always `null` for those rows; use `mid`. | | `midMethod` | How the mid was obtained: `published` (bank's own figure), `midpoint` (computed as `(buy+sell)/2`), or `unavailable` | | `inverseMid` | `1/mid` — units of base per 1 quote (e.g. ETB per USD) | | `rateType` | `official` (BNR, NBE), `interbank` (BoT), `derived` (KMF/DJF — see below). **Rates of different types are not directly comparable.** | | `warnings` | Data-quality flags, e.g. `buying_gt_selling`, `mid_out_of_range` | | `id` | Deterministic natural key (`country:baseCurrency:date:rateType`) — safe to use for upsert/dedup | | `source` | Full attribution and provenance block: bank name, URL, retrieval timestamp, as-of date, licence note | *** ### Coverage and source notes | Country | Bank | Rate type | buying / selling | Historical depth | |---|---|---|---|---| | Tanzania (TZ) | Bank of Tanzania (BoT) | `interbank` — daily HTML table | ✓ published | Available; arbitrary date range via POST form | | Rwanda (RW) | National Bank of Rwanda (BNR) | `official` — JSON API, 71+ currencies | ✓ published | USD back to 2015+ via BNR's own history endpoint | | Ethiopia (ET) | National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) | `official` — JSON API, 19 currencies | ✓ published | Per-date API — any date with data (~1 req/sec, long ranges take proportional time) | | Burundi (BI) | Banque de la République du Burundi (BRB) | `official` — HTML table | ✓ published | None (`historical` mode skips BRB gracefully) | | Comoros (KM) | BCC / ECB | `derived` — see note | null (EUR peg, no spread) | Back to 1999-01-04 (ECB EUR/USD series start) | | Djibouti (DJ) | BCD (USD currency board) | `derived` — see note | null (USD peg, no spread) | Any date (constant value — 177.721 DJF/USD) | **Why are Comoros and Djibouti rows derived?** Both currencies have **fixed pegs with no independent bid/ask spread**: - KMF (Comoros): permanently pegged to EUR at **491.96775** by French Treasury / EU treaty. USD/KMF is derived as `491.96775 ÷ ECB daily EUR/USD`. Back-history available to 1999. - DJF (Djibouti): USD currency board peg at **177.721 DJF/USD** (confirmed on BCD homepage). The rate is constant for any date; `buying` and `selling` are always `null`. **BNR all-currencies note:** BNR's API lists 71 currency codes, but most are legacy/inactive slots — only ~5 (USD, EUR, GBP, and a few others) typically have current data. Inactive codes silently return empty arrays and are skipped. **Delayed data.** Rates are scraped from each institution's published page — not a real-time feed. Expect a few hours' lag after a central bank publishes its daily figure. *** ### Cost Pay-per-event pricing: | Mode | Charge | Typical cost | |---|---|---| | `usd-core` | One `fx-snapshot` per run | $0.10 per run | | `all-currencies` | One `fx-country-day` per unique (currency, country, date) row | $0.015 per row | | `historical` | One `fx-country-day` per unique (currency, country, date) row | $0.015 per country-day | **Examples:** - Daily `usd-core` for all 6 countries: **$0.10/day** (~$2.20/month) - 1 year of `historical` for Rwanda + Ethiopia: 2 × ~252 trading days = ~504 events → **~$7.56** - 1 year of `historical` for all 6 countries: ~252 × 6 = ~1,512 chargeable events → **~$22.68** *** ### Legality & disclaimers **Is the data real-time?** No — it is delayed. We scrape each bank's published web page; publishing lag varies by institution. **Legal basis.** Official exchange rates are **factual data**. Copyright protects creative expression, not facts. These central-bank sites carry only a general copyright notice with no contractual restriction on reusing the published rate figures. Comoros and Djibouti rates are derived using publicly stated pegs; the EUR/USD component comes from the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse (free reuse with attribution). Every output record carries the issuing bank's name, URL, and a licence note — we reproduce values exactly as published without alteration. **Resilience.** Each source is fetched independently. If one central bank's site is down, the run still returns data from the others and logs a per-source summary. BRB (Burundi) does not support historical mode and is gracefully skipped when `historical` is selected. **Accuracy.** Values are reproduced as published. If a bank revises a figure, re-run to pick up the change; use `asOfDate` and `retrievedAt` to track versions. **Issues / feedback:** use the Issues tab on the actor page. *This is not legal or financial advice. Verify rates against the issuing central bank before acting on them.* # Actor input Schema ## `mode` (type: `string`): usd-core: one comparable USD rate per country (latest). all-currencies: every currency each bank publishes (latest). historical: a USD-per-country time series — set Date from / Date to below. ## `countries` (type: `array`): Which countries to include (ISO 3166 alpha-2). TZ = Tanzania (BoT), RW = Rwanda (BNR), ET = Ethiopia (NBE), BI = Burundi (BRB), KM = Comoros (ECB-derived), DJ = Djibouti (USD-pegged). ## `dateFrom` (type: `string`): Start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode. Tanzania back to 2000s, Rwanda back to 2015+, Ethiopia back to years, Comoros back to 1999 (ECB), Djibouti back to any date (fixed peg). ## `dateTo` (type: `string`): End date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode. Note: NBE Ethiopia fetches one day at a time (~1 req/sec); long ranges take proportionally longer. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Hard cap on output records. Mainly relevant in all-currencies and historical modes. ## Actor input object example ```json { "mode": "usd-core", "countries": [ "TZ", "RW", "ET", "BI", "KM", "DJ" ], "maxItems": 5000 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `dataset` (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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "countries": [ "TZ", "RW", "ET", "BI", "KM", "DJ" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("malmon/east-africa-fx-rates").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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "countries": [ "TZ", "RW", "ET", "BI", "KM", "DJ", ] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("malmon/east-africa-fx-rates").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "countries": [ "TZ", "RW", "ET", "BI", "KM", "DJ" ] }' | apify call malmon/east-africa-fx-rates --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=malmon/east-africa-fx-rates", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "East Africa FX Rates — Official Central Bank Exchange Rates API", "description": "The only API pulling official daily FX rates directly from East African central banks — not World Bank annual releases. Covers Kenya (KES), Tanzania (TZS), Uganda (UGX) and Rwanda (RWF). 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TZ = Tanzania (BoT), RW = Rwanda (BNR), ET = Ethiopia (NBE), BI = Burundi (BRB), KM = Comoros (ECB-derived), DJ = Djibouti (USD-pegged).", "default": [ "TZ", "RW", "ET", "BI", "KM", "DJ" ], "items": { "type": "string" } }, "dateFrom": { "title": "Date from (historical mode)", "type": "string", "description": "Start date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode. Tanzania back to 2000s, Rwanda back to 2015+, Ethiopia back to years, Comoros back to 1999 (ECB), Djibouti back to any date (fixed peg)." }, "dateTo": { "title": "Date to (historical mode)", "type": "string", "description": "End date (YYYY-MM-DD). Required in historical mode. Note: NBE Ethiopia fetches one day at a time (~1 req/sec); long ranges take proportionally longer." }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on output records. 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