💱 Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper

🚀 Export ECB-derived foreign-exchange rates in seconds. Pull latest, historical, and time-series rates for 30+ currencies in one run. No API key, no registration, no per-call billing.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-22 · 📊 9 fields per record · 💱 30 currencies · 📅 1999 onward · 🔁 4 modes

The Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper queries the Frankfurter foreign-exchange feed, which derives from European Central Bank reference rates, and returns 9 fields per record, including mode, date, base, quote, rate, amount, ISO currency code, full currency name, and the scrape timestamp. The underlying dataset is one of the most widely cited open FX references and is the default backbone for finance dashboards, accounting tools, and travel apps.

The catalog covers 30 currencies including EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, CNY, and most G20 currencies, with daily rates going back to 1999. This Actor returns latest spot rates, a single historical date, a full time series, or the supported currency list in one run, downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Forex analysts, fintech engineers, accounting and ERP teams, travel and booking platforms, e-commerce checkout, treasury teams	Spot-rate lookups, monthly accounting close, historical reporting, base-currency conversion in checkouts, FX risk dashboards

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📋 What the Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper does

Four lookup workflows in a single run:

• 💱 Latest spot rates. Pull today's reference rates against your chosen base currency.
• 📅 Historical date. Pull rates for a single past date in YYYY-MM-DD format.
• 📈 Time series. Pull a range of daily rates between two dates.
• 📚 Supported currencies. Pull the full list of supported ISO codes with full currency names.

Each record includes the mode used, the date the rate is valid for, the base currency, the quote currency, the numeric rate, the source amount (typically 1), the ISO currency code, the human-friendly currency name, and the scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: reliable FX rates underpin accounting close, treasury risk, e-commerce checkouts, travel pricing, and analytics. Building your own rate feed means handling weekends, holidays, missing publishing days, and ECB rounding rules. This Actor skips all of that and refreshes on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
mode	string	"latest"	One of latest, historical, timeseries, currencies.
baseCurrency	string	"EUR"	Base currency for rate calculations.
targetCurrencies	array	[]	Restrict output to these ISO codes. Empty = all 30 supported.
dateFrom	string	""	Required for historical and timeseries. Format YYYY-MM-DD.
dateTo	string	""	Required for timeseries. Format YYYY-MM-DD.

Example: latest EUR-to-USD and EUR-to-GBP spot rates.

{
    "maxItems": 10,
    "mode": "latest",
    "baseCurrency": "EUR",
    "targetCurrencies": ["USD", "GBP"]
}

Example: full month of USD-to-EUR daily rates.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "mode": "timeseries",
    "baseCurrency": "USD",
    "targetCurrencies": ["EUR"],
    "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
    "dateTo": "2025-01-31"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the feed mirrors ECB publishing days. Weekends and ECB closures return no record for that date. For accounting close, query the time-series mode and forward-fill missing dates per your firm's policy.

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📊 Output

Each rate record contains 9 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🔧 mode	string	"latest"
📅 date	string | null	"2026-05-21"
🏦 base	string | null	"EUR"
💱 quote	string | null	"USD"
💯 rate	number | null	1.0852
🔢 amount	number | null	1
🆔 currencyCode	string	"USD"
📝 currencyName	string | null	"United States Dollar"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-22T10:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
💱	ECB-derived rates. Sourced from the European Central Bank reference series, trusted by treasuries worldwide.
🔁	Four modes in one Actor. Latest, historical, time series, and currency list, all from one input form.
🌐	30 currencies. EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, CNY, plus most G20 and major emerging markets.
📅	History to 1999. Pull daily rates from 1999 onward for backtests and historical reporting.
⚡	Fast. Latest spot rates in under 3 seconds, full month time series in under 10.
🔁	Always fresh. Each run pulls the live feed, so the dataset reflects today's ECB publication.
🚫	No authentication. Works against the public Frankfurter feed. No login or API key needed.

📊 Reliable FX rates are the backbone of accounting close, treasury risk dashboards, e-commerce checkouts, and travel pricing.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	30 currencies, 1999+	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Hand-written ECB CSV parser	Free + engineering	Same	Build it yourself	🛠️ Hours
Commercial FX APIs	$50+/month	100+ currencies	Real-time	⏳ Hours
Hard-coded snapshot in code	Free	One date	Manual	🐢 Tech debt

Pick this Actor when you want ECB-trusted rates with zero parser maintenance and zero per-call billing.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode, base currency, target currencies, and date range (for historical or time-series modes). Set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

🏦 Fintech & Treasury Daily FX rate refresh into trading dashboards Historical lookups for risk reports Multi-leg conversion calculators Hedge-position revaluation	📊 Accounting & ERP Month-end close conversion rates Multi-currency invoice translation Foreign-subsidiary consolidation Audit-ready historical rate trail
🛒 E-commerce & Travel Checkout price conversion to local currency Hotel and flight pricing in user currency Marketplace seller payouts in base currency Subscription billing FX normalization	📈 Analytics & BI KPI dashboards normalized to a single currency Cross-border revenue reporting Country-by-country attribution models Reproducible historical conversion datasets

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🔌 Automating Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. A daily run after ECB publication keeps downstream FX tables in sync automatically.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

FX data powers more than enterprise finance. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Macroeconomic studies on currency volatility Reproducible time-series datasets for papers Coursework on international finance Open-data exercises with daily ECB rates	🎨 Personal and creative Travel budget calculators Personal finance dashboards Currency-themed visualizations and posts Hobbyist trading backtests
🤝 Non-profit and civic Cross-border donation reporting Aid budget normalization Civic transparency on government FX exposure Investigative journalism on currency moves	🧪 Experimentation Train FX prediction models on real history Prototype agents that quote in any base Build currency converter chrome extensions Test e-commerce checkout flows with live rates

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

• 💬 ChatGPT
• 🧠 Claude
• 🔍 Perplexity
• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick a mode (latest, historical, timeseries, currencies), choose a base currency and optional target list, click Start, and the Actor reads the Frankfurter feed and emits a clean structured record per rate. No browser automation, no captchas, no setup.

📏 How accurate is the data?

The Frankfurter feed derives from the European Central Bank reference rate series, the same rates banks and treasuries use for valuation. For tick-level intraday trading you want a commercial real-time feed; for accounting, reporting, and dashboards the ECB-derived series is the standard.

🔁 How often is the dataset refreshed?

The ECB publishes reference rates once per ECB business day, around 16:00 CET. The Frankfurter feed mirrors that schedule. Every run of this Actor pulls the latest published rates.

📅 How far back does the historical data go?

Daily rates are available from 1999 onward, covering more than 25 years of FX history.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval. A daily run after ECB publication keeps downstream FX tables in sync.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

ECB reference rates are published as open data. The Frankfurter feed mirrors them under an open license. Commercial use is permitted; check the source license for attribution preferences.

💼 Can I use this data commercially?

Yes. ECB reference rates and the Frankfurter feed are open for commercial reuse. You are responsible for any downstream compliance with regulatory requirements specific to your industry.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to use this Actor?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs (10 records per run). A paid plan lifts the limit and gives you access to scheduling, higher concurrency, and larger time-series pulls.

🔁 What if a date returned no rates?

The ECB does not publish on weekends or ECB holidays. For those dates the feed returns no record. In time-series mode the Actor simply skips the missing dates; forward-fill per your firm's policy if you need a value.

🌐 Which currencies are supported?

EUR, AUD, BRL, CAD, CHF, CNY, CZK, DKK, GBP, HKD, HUF, IDR, ILS, INR, ISK, JPY, KRW, MXN, MYR, NOK, NZD, PHP, PLN, RON, SEK, SGD, THB, TRY, USD, and ZAR. Use the currencies mode to pull the live list with full currency names.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Frankfurter FX Rates Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe FX data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh rates into your accounting system, or alert your team in Slack on threshold breaches.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Frankfurter, the European Central Bank, or any of their data providers. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open foreign-exchange data is collected.