💱 Fed H.10 Exchange Rates API — Daily FX & Dollar Index

Get the Federal Reserve Board's H.10 / G.5 foreign exchange rates as clean records — business-day rates for 23 currencies against the US dollar (euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, yuan, peso and more), monthly and annual averages, and the Board's nominal dollar indexes (broad, advanced foreign economies, emerging markets) — straight from the Board's official release package.

Treasury teams, FX analysts, accountants and researchers use H.10 as the reference US dollar rate. The Board publishes it as one ZIP of SDMX XML: this actor reads the series you ask for and delivers one record per rate per date, with description, unit and frequency — no XML parsing, no API key.

The unit of output is one observation (one series, one date). You pay per observation delivered; a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

📊 Sample Output

series_name	date	value	series_description	frequency
RXI$US_N.B.EU	2026-09-25	1.14	EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)	Business day
RXI$US_N.B.EU	2026-09-24	1.1373	EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)	Business day
RXI$US_N.B.EU	2026-09-23	1.1394	EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)	Business day
RXI$US_N.B.EU	2026-09-22	1.1432	EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)	Business day
RXI$US_N.B.EU	2026-09-21	1.1469	EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)	Business day

Rows from live run HCiJkdBbWX17dU74g on Apify (input: currencies EUR, JPY, GBP, CAD from 1 August 2026, 40 records). Notice the quoting direction in the description (USD per EUR) and the newest business day first; euro and pound filled the 40 records because they come first in the Board's file.

✅ What you get

Every field of each record:

• record_id — H10:<series_name>:<date>, unique per observation.
• series_name — the Board's series code, e.g. RXI$US_N.B.EU.
• series_description — short description with the quoting direction, e.g. EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR).
• series_long_description — the Board's long description.
• currency — ISO currency code; null where the Board gives none (the dollar indexes).
• fx_code — the Board's FX code — the currency, or BRD, AFE, EME and the goods-only codes for the indexes.
• fx_label — the Board's label for that code, e.g. Euro Area / U.S. Dollars per Euro.
• unit — unit from the Board's code list, e.g. Currency: Per USD or Index: 1997 Jan = 100.
• unit_multiplier — unit multiplier as published.
• frequency — Business day, Monthly or Annual.
• date — observation date (ISO date for daily; month or year as published).
• value — the rate or index value.
• observation_status, observation_status_label — A (normal) or ND (no data, e.g. a holiday), with the Board's label.
• release, release_prepared — release name and when the Board prepared the package.
• source, source_dataset, licence, attribution, observed_at — provenance on every record: the Board and release, the file and its last-modified time, the Board's public-domain notice quoted, the citation the Board asks for, and the UTC read time.

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Store example — euro, yen and Canadian dollar

{
  "currencies": ["EUR", "JPY", "CAD"],
  "maxRecords": 10
}

The 10 newest business-day euro rates (the first matching series in the Board's file); about $0.50 on the Free plan.

2. Narrowed — daily euro and yen since January 2026

{
  "currencies": ["EUR", "JPY"],
  "frequencies": ["daily"],
  "dateFrom": "2026-01-01",
  "maxRecords": 500
}

Every business-day rate this year for both currencies.

3. Bulk — latest value of every series

{
  "dateFrom": "1971-01-01",
  "latestOnly": true,
  "maxRecords": 100
}

One record per series (87 in the release): the newest rate or index value. About $4.35 on Free, $2.91 on Gold.

Input fields:

Field	Meaning
currencies	ISO codes (EUR, JPY, CAD, GBP, CNY, MXN …) or the index codes BRD, AFE, EME
seriesNames	exact Board series codes, e.g. RXI$US_N.B.EU or JRXWTFB_N.B
dateFrom	only observations on or after this date
dateTo	only observations on or before this date
frequencies	any of daily, monthly, annual (empty = all)
latestOnly	one record per series: its most recent observation
includeNoData	also deliver days the Board marks no data (holidays), with a null value
order	newest_first (default) or oldest_first within each series
maxRecords	most observations delivered and billed in this run (default 1,000)

🧾 JSON sample record

{
  "record_id": "H10:RXI$US_N.B.EU:2026-09-25",
  "series_name": "RXI$US_N.B.EU",
  "series_description": "EMU Members Euro (USD per EUR)",
  "series_long_description": "Euro-Area Euro",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "fx_code": "EUR",
  "fx_label": "Euro Area / U.S. Dollars per Euro",
  "unit": "Currency",
  "unit_multiplier": "1",
  "frequency": "Business day",
  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "value": 1.14,
  "observation_status": "A",
  "observation_status_label": "Normal",
  "release": "G.5/H.10 - Foreign Exchange Rates",
  "release_prepared": "2026-10-01T17:49:49",
  "source": "Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System — H.10 / G.5 Foreign Exchange Rates (Data Download Program release package)",
  "source_dataset": "FRB_H10.zip (H10_data.xml), Last-Modified Sun, 04 Oct 2026 03:43:23 GMT",
  "licence": "Public domain. Federal Reserve Board: \"Unless otherwise indicated, information on Board's website is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission. Please cite to the Board as the source of the information.\" (federalreserve.gov/disclaimer.htm)",
  "attribution": "Source: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (US), H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-04T03:43:23Z"
}

🔧 How it works

1. Robots check. www.federalreserve.gov/robots.txt is requested on every run. It answers with an HTML "page not found" (HTTP 404): no robots policy is published (FLAGGED). The actor records that and relies on the Board's public-domain notice; a real robots.txt that disallows the download would stop the run with nothing charged.

2. One release package. The actor requests the Board's direct link for the full H.10 release (datadownload/Output.aspx?filetype=zip&rel=H10, about 2 MB), holds it in memory without saving it, and reads it with an incremental XML parser.

3. Filter, deliver, charge. Series are checked against your currencies, codes and frequencies; observations inside your date window become records, newest first by default, with no-data holidays skipped unless asked for. Records are pushed in batches and each batch is charged after delivery, so records and charges match. Parsing stops at maxRecords or your maximum charge.

4. Receipt. RUN_RECEIPT records the robots result, the file, the release's prepared time, series matched, and delivered and charged counts.

No login, API key, proxy or bot workaround — one public Board file, and no personal data in it.

💰 Pricing example

Per observation delivered, no start fee, no monthly charge:

Apify plan	Price per observation
Free	$0.05
Bronze	$0.045
Silver	$0.04
Gold, Platinum, Diamond	$0.0335

• 10 observations (the Store example): $0.50 on the Free plan, $0.335 on Gold.
• 1,000 observations (the default cap): $50 on Free, $45 on Bronze, $40 on Silver, $33.50 on Gold.
• 87 observations with latestOnly (one per series): $4.35 on Free, $2.91 on Gold.

Coverage and size. Live count from the release package read on 3 October 2026 (prepared 1 October 2026 17:49:49): 347,430 observations in 87 series — 29 business-day, 29 monthly and 29 annual (23 currencies plus 6 dollar indexes at each frequency), from 4 January 1971. The planning index counted 347,430 observations across 87 series — they agree. 332,659 observations carry a value; 14,771 are no-data days, delivered only with includeNoData. A filter is required (currencies, series codes or a start date); a whole-release read takes seconds on Apify, and a full pull is 332,659 valued records, billed per observation. The goods-only dollar indexes end on 31 December 2019.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

Data: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, G.5/H.10 Foreign Exchange Rates, from the Board's Data Download Program. The Board's notice says: "Unless otherwise indicated, information on Board's website is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission. Please cite to the Board as the source of the information." Every record carries that notice in licence and a citation in attribution.

Robots FLAG: www.federalreserve.gov/robots.txt returns a 404 page — no robots policy is published. That is recorded on every run and not treated as permission by itself; the public-domain notice governs reuse. One public file, declared User-Agent, no login, key, proxy or form. Exchange rates and indexes only — no personal data.

Source notice: the package says the Data Download Program is being retired: "Build Your Package" goes during the week of November 9, the program later. This actor uses the release's direct link, not Build Your Package; if the Board withdraws it, runs end with a source-unavailable message and nothing is charged.

This actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Federal Reserve. Rates are the Board's as published — reference rates, not a trading feed.

❓ FAQ

Do I need a FRED key or an account? No. The actor reads the Board's public release package, which needs no key, login or registration.

Why must I give a currency, series code or start date? The full release is 347,430 observations. A filter keeps runs fast and bills only what you asked for; an unfiltered run is refused with a clear message.

Which way are rates quoted? As the Board publishes them: most series are foreign currency per US dollar (e.g. yen per dollar); the euro, pound, Australian and New Zealand dollars are US dollars per unit of that currency. The series_description says which.

How fresh is the data? As fresh as the Board's package — H.10 is published weekly with daily rates. Each record carries the package's prepared time.

Can I get the dollar indexes? Yes: currencies: ["BRD", "AFE", "EME"] for the broad, advanced-foreign-economies and emerging-market nominal dollar indexes, or their series codes such as JRXWTFB_N.B.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• 0 records — check the currency code (23 are published) or use an exact series code; remember dateFrom limits the window.
• Holidays missing — they are no-data days; set includeNoData to get them with a null value.
• Only one currency returned — the run stopped at maxRecords; raise it or use latestOnly.
• SOURCE UNAVAILABLE message — the Board's server did not answer after three tries; nothing was charged — run again later.
• CAPPED message — your maximum total charge was reached; raise it in the run options.

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