frankfurter 1.0.0

A lightweight wrapper for the frankfurter API

frankfurter - Unofficial Lightweight Wrapper for the frankfurter API

The Frankfurter API tracks foreign exchange references rates published by the European Central Bank. The data refreshes around 16:00 CET every working day.

Installation

You can directly download it from pip using the command

pip install frankfurter

Usage

First, you need to make a object of the FrankfurterEngine class. It takes an argument called quiet_mode which decides whether to print the logging information.

from frankfurter import FrankfurterEngine

engine = FrankfurterEngine(quiet_mode=False)

Get List of Supported Currencies

To fetch the list of supported currencies:

currencies = engine.fetch_currencies()
print(currencies)

Fetch Latest Forex Data

To fetch the latest forex data for a base currency and an optional target currency:

latest_data = engine.fetch_latest_data(base="USD", to="EUR")
print(latest_data)

Fetch Historical Data for a Specific Date

To fetch forex data for a specific date:

historical_data = engine.fetch_data_for_date(date="2022-01-01", base="USD", to="EUR")
print(historical_data)

Fetch Time Series Data

To fetch forex data over a date range:

time_series_data = engine.fetch_time_series_data(
    base="USD", to="EUR", start_date="2022-01-01", end_date="2022-12-31"
)
print(time_series_data)

API Documentation

API Documentation For more information on the API itself, visit the official documentation.