Download currency exchange rate

[Wouter van Marle]

I hoped to find a service that didn't require me to parse html.
It appears that oanda.com doesn't like scripts: they mess up the numbers
with all kinds of invisible html things; such as a random comment or a
random non-printing character. Useless.
Now using xe.com, with a little work got the correct request string, and
then some html digging and got the numbers. It's a hack but it works.

Wouter.

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 12:23 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote:

> On Fr, 2006-04-07, 11:58, Wouter van Marle skrev:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Maybe a bit off-topic: but does anyone know where I can download the
> > current currency exchange rates, automatically (using a Python script -
> > not GnuCash)?
> >
> Guess you already checked these sites
> http://www.oanda.com/
> http://www.x-rates.com/
> http://www.xe.com/
> 
> Should be possible to find an URL from these site which would suite you.
> Perhaps
> http://www.x-rates.com/cgi-bin/cgicalc.cgi?value=1&base=USD
> http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxdaily?value=1&date_fmt=us〈=en&exch=USD&exch2=&expr2=&dest=Get+Table&sel_list=CAD_CHF_GBP_JPY&format=ASCII&redirected=1
> 
> /Bengt
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