ECB Exchange Rates Scraper 💶

Scrape the official European Central Bank (ECB) euro foreign exchange reference rates for USD, GBP, JPY, CHF and 40+ currencies — latest or historical daily rates, in clean structured JSON. No API key, no login, datacenter-proxy-friendly, blazing fast.

The ECB publishes the euro reference exchange rates every business day around 16:00 CET. This Actor pulls them straight from the official ECB Data Portal and turns them into ready-to-use dataset records you can push into a spreadsheet, database, BI dashboard, or accounting workflow.

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✨ Features

• 🏦 Official source — rates come directly from the ECB Data Portal (data-api.ecb.europa.eu), the same numbers used across the EU for reporting.
• 💱 40+ currencies — USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, AUD, CAD, CNY, HKD, NOK, SEK, PLN, CZK, and many more. Leave the list empty to grab every available currency.
• 🕒 Latest or historical — return just today's rate, or up to the last 100 daily observations per currency for time series.
• ⚡ Fast & cheap — a single clean CSV request; runs on 512 MB RAM and finishes in seconds on datacenter proxies (or no proxy at all).
• 🧱 Structured output — every record has currency, date, rate, base, frequency, scraped_at.
• 🔁 Schedule it — run daily to build your own historical FX archive automatically.

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📥 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	rates	What to scrape. Currently the euro reference rates.
currencies	array	["USD","GBP","JPY","CHF"]	ISO 4217 codes. Empty = all available currencies.
observations	integer	1	Recent daily observations per currency (1–100). 1 = latest only.
maxItems	integer	500	Max records pushed to the dataset (1–5000).

Example input

{
  "mode": "rates",
  "currencies": ["USD", "GBP", "JPY", "CHF"],
  "observations": 1,
  "maxItems": 500
}

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📤 Output

Each item is one currency on one date. The rate is units of that currency per 1 EUR.

{
  "currency": "USD",
  "date": "2026-07-17",
  "rate": 1.1435,
  "base": "EUR",
  "frequency": "D",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-19T11:29:40.200041+00:00"
}

So 1 EUR = 1.1435 USD. To convert X USD → EUR: X / 1.1435. To cross-rate two currencies, divide their per-EUR rates (e.g. GBP per USD = rate_GBP / rate_USD).

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💡 Use cases

• Finance & treasury — daily mark-to-market and month-end revaluation against official ECB rates.
• Accounting & invoicing — book foreign-currency invoices at the compliant reference rate for the invoice date.
• Fintech & apps — power currency converters and pricing with an authoritative euro base.
• Dashboards & BI — feed Power BI, Looker, Google Sheets, or a database with a clean FX feed.
• Research & backtesting — build a historical euro FX time series across dozens of currencies.

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💰 Pricing

This Actor is inexpensive to run — roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 runs on the Apify platform, since each run is a single lightweight request on 512 MB RAM. Actual cost depends on your plan and how many observations/currencies you fetch. Schedule it daily and your whole-year FX archive costs pennies.

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🆚 Why this Actor

	This Actor	Generic "free FX API" wrappers
Source	Official ECB Data Portal	Mixed / unofficial aggregators
Currencies	40+, or all at once	Often limited on free tiers
History	Up to 100 daily obs/currency	Frequently paywalled
Key required	❌ None	✅ Usually
Proxy	Datacenter-friendly	Varies
Output	Clean, nullable, schema'd	Raw / inconsistent

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🔗 Related Actors by the same author

• 💱 Currency Exchange Scraper
• 🪙 Coinpaprika Scraper
• 📈 Yahoo Finance Scraper
• 🌍 World Bank Scraper

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🔎 Keywords

ecb exchange rates, euro reference rates, ecb api, euro fx rates, foreign exchange scraper, currency converter data, eur usd rate, eur gbp rate, forex reference rates, european central bank, sdmx, fx time series, currency api no key, euro exchange rate history, treasury fx feed.

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⚖️ Notes

The ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates are published by the European Central Bank for information purposes and are freely available. This Actor accesses the public ECB Data Portal API and does not scrape any login-gated or personal data.