Currency Exchange Rates (ECB + 200 currencies, historical)

Get latest, historical and daily time-series exchange rates for 200+ currencies in one run, as a clean dataset (JSON, CSV, Excel). No API key, no sign-up with a rates provider.

Each rate comes from two independent public sources, side by side:

Source	Coverage	History
ECB – European Central Bank euro reference rates (via the open-source Frankfurter API, ECB XML as fallback)	~30 major currencies	business days since 1999
currency-api – fawazahmed0/exchange-api (CC0)	200+ fiat currencies, plus crypto and metals	daily since 2024-03-02

When both sources quote a pair you get both numbers and the spread between them in basis points, so you can see at a glance how far apart the reference rate and the market close are.

What you can do with it

• Convert an amount into many currencies at once (e.g. 250 USD into EUR, GBP, JPY, NGN, BTC).
• Price catalogs and invoices in local currency on a schedule (run it daily with Apify Schedules).
• Pull a historical rate for any past date for accounting, tax or reconciliation.
• Build a time series (one row per currency per day) for charts, backtests or dashboards.
• Cross-check rates – the source spread flags pairs where a single feed could mislead you.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
baseCurrency	Currency to convert from (ISO 4217, e.g. USD, EUR, INR; crypto like BTC works via currency-api)	USD
targetCurrencies	Currencies to quote. Leave empty for every fiat currency either source quotes (~160)	all fiat
amount	Amount converted in every row	1
date	YYYY-MM-DD for a historical day instead of the latest	latest
startDate / endDate	Set startDate to get a daily time series (endDate defaults to today)	–
sources	ecb, currency-api, or both	both
includeNonFiat	With empty targets, also return crypto tokens and metals	false

Example – latest rates for 250 USD:

{ "baseCurrency": "USD", "targetCurrencies": ["EUR", "GBP", "JPY", "NGN", "BTC"], "amount": 250 }

Example – a month of daily EUR and INR rates against USD:

{ "baseCurrency": "USD", "targetCurrencies": ["EUR", "INR"], "startDate": "2026-08-01", "endDate": "2026-08-31" }

Output

Rates mode (no startDate) – one row per currency pair:

{
  "type": "rate",
  "base": "USD",
  "currency": "EUR",
  "currency_name": "Euro",
  "rate": 0.87696,
  "inverse_rate": 1.140302864,
  "amount": 250,
  "converted": 219.24,
  "primary_source": "ecb",
  "ecb_rate": 0.87696,
  "ecb_date": "2026-09-25",
  "currency_api_rate": 0.8795343,
  "currency_api_date": "2026-09-25",
  "sources": 2,
  "source_spread_bps": 29.31,
  "requested_date": "latest",
  "fetched_at": "2026-09-26T09:39:12Z"
}

rate is the ECB reference rate where the ECB quotes the pair, otherwise the currency-api rate (primary_source tells you which).

Time-series mode (startDate set) – one row per currency per day:

{ "type": "timeseries", "base": "USD", "currency": "EUR", "date": "2026-09-14", "rate": 0.86573, "amount": 1, "converted": 0.86573, "source": "ecb" }

ECB currencies come from ECB business days (no weekend rows). Other currencies come from currency-api for every calendar day (the last 400 days of the range).

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.001 per rate row. Ten currencies cost one cent; the full ~160-currency table costs about $0.16; a month of daily rates for two currencies (~50 rows) costs about $0.05. You never pay more than the maximum cost per run you set.

Notes and limits

• The ECB publishes reference rates once per business day around 16:00 CET. On weekends and holidays the ECB value is the previous business day (see ecb_date).
• currency-api publishes daily. The ECB and currency-api are measured at different times of day, so a spread of 10–50 bps between them is normal. A much larger spread usually means a thinly traded or controlled currency.
• Rates are for information only. They are mid-market or reference rates, not the rate a bank or card network will give you.
• Data: ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates (source: ECB); fawazahmed0/exchange-api (CC0-1.0).

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