💱 ECB Euro FX Rates Scraper - Official Exchange Rates

🚀 Collect official European Central Bank euro reference rates for 30+ currencies. Choose daily rates, last 90 days, or the full historical series since 1999. Get clean tabular data ready for analysis.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Accountants, finance teams, and trading desks all need reliable EUR reference rates. The European Central Bank publishes official daily foreign exchange rates against the euro every afternoon. This tool pulls those rates into a clean tabular dataset.

The ECB FX Rates Scraper delivers one row per currency-date pair with the currency code, date, rate, base currency (always EUR), and source. Pick daily mode for today, 90-day mode for the last 90 business days, or historical mode for the full series back to 1999. Optionally filter to specific currencies.

Target Audience	Accounting teams, trading desks, multinational finance departments, financial dashboard builders, e-commerce companies, economic researchers
Primary Use Cases	Month-end reporting, multi-currency revaluation, back-testing trading strategies, product price updates, historical trend analysis, BI dashboard feeds

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📋 What Does It Do

• Provides official ECB reference rates published daily by the European Central Bank
• Offers three time ranges: today's rates, last 90 days, or historical since 1999
• Covers 30+ currencies including USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, SEK, AUD, CAD, CNY, BRL, and INR
• Filters results to specific currencies with a simple list
• Delivers one row per currency-date pair for easy analysis
• Outputs clean tabular format ready for spreadsheets and databases

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🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000	10
Mode	string	daily (today), 90d (last 90 days), or historical (since 1999)	daily
Filter Currencies	array	Optional list of 3-letter codes (e.g., USD, GBP, JPY). Empty for all	-

Example 1:

{
    "mode": "90d",
    "currencies": ["USD", "GBP", "JPY"],
    "maxItems": 300
}

Example 2:

{
    "mode": "historical",
    "currencies": ["USD"],
    "maxItems": 10000
}

⚠️ ECB rates are published around 3 PM CET on TARGET business days. Weekends and eurozone holidays have no published rates.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema: date, currency, rate, base, source, scrapedAt

📦 Sample 1:

{
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "USD",
    "rate": 1.0843,
    "base": "EUR",
    "source": "ECB",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 2:

{
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "GBP",
    "rate": 0.8567,
    "base": "EUR",
    "source": "ECB",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 3:

{
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "JPY",
    "rate": 162.45,
    "base": "EUR",
    "source": "ECB",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose This Tool?

Feature	Details
Official ECB rates	Reference rates published daily by the European Central Bank
Three time ranges	Daily, 90-day, and full historical since 1999 in one tool
30+ currencies	USD, GBP, JPY, CHF, CAD, AUD, SEK, NOK, CNY, INR, and many more
Currency filtering	Limit results to just the currencies you need
Flat table format	One row per currency-date pair for easy analysis
Scheduled runs	Set up daily 4 PM CET runs to always have the latest rates
No XML parsing	Get clean tabular data instead of nested XML files

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📈 How It Compares

Capability	This Tool	Other Solutions
Time ranges	Daily, 90-day, and full historical in one tool	Separate files per range
Currency filtering	Built-in filter by currency code	Post-processing required
Output format	Flat table (one row per pair)	Nested XML
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	XML only
Scheduled runs	Daily automated collection	Manual download
Historical data	Full series since 1999	Separate manual download

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "ECB Euro FX Rates Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

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💼 Business Use Cases

Audience	How They Use It
Accounting Teams	Pull daily EUR rates for month-end reporting and multi-currency revaluation across subsidiaries
Trading Desks	Backfill historical EUR rates for back-testing strategies and building pricing models
E-commerce Companies	Update product prices daily based on official EUR exchange rates across international storefronts
Economic Researchers	Analyze historical EUR/USD, EUR/GBP, or EUR/JPY trends since 1999 for academic publications

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Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the European Central Bank or any EU institution. It collects only publicly available reference rate data.