Standard Requests

Documentation for the Standard ExchangeRate-API endpoint.

Overview

Our Standard API endpoint is the easiest and fastest way to access our exchange rate data. It's available on all plans including Free.

Choose your base currency and the Standard endpoint will simply return the conversion rates from your base currency code to all the others we support in an easy to parse JSON format.


Usage Guide

To use our Standard endpoint simply make the two substitutions explained below and then send a GET request.

• Substitute `YOUR-API-KEY` with the API key displayed in your dashboard.

• Substitute `USD` with the code you want to use as a base currency.

We use ISO 4217 Three Letter Currency Codes - e.g. USD for US Dollars, EUR for Euro etc. Here are the codes we support.

GET https://v6.exchangerate-api.com/v6/YOUR-API-KEY/latest/USD

This will return the exchange rates from your base code to all the other currencies we support:

{
	"result": "success",
	"documentation": "https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs",
	"terms_of_use": "https://www.exchangerate-api.com/terms",
	"time_last_update_unix": 1585267200,
	"time_last_update_utc": "Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000",
	"time_next_update_unix": 1585353700,
	"time_next_update_utc": "Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000",
	"base_code": "USD",
	"conversion_rates": {
		"USD": 1,
		"AUD": 1.4817,
		"BGN": 1.7741,
		"CAD": 1.3168,
		"CHF": 0.9774,
		"CNY": 6.9454,
		"EGP": 15.7361,
		"EUR": 0.9013,
		"GBP": 0.7679,
		"...": 7.8536,
		"...": 1.3127,
		"...": 7.4722, etc. etc.
	}
}

Error Responses

{
	"result": "error",
	"error-type": "unknown-code"
}

Where "error-type" can be any of the following:

  • "unsupported-code" if we don't support the supplied currency code (see supported currencies...).
  • "malformed-request" when some part of your request doesn't follow the structure shown above.
  • "invalid-key" when your API key is not valid.
  • "inactive-account" if your email address wasn't confirmed.
  • "quota-reached" when your account has reached the the number of requests allowed by your plan.

➡️️​ If you have any questions about the above please don't hesitate to email us!