Foreign Exchange data from Central Bank of Russia
July 29th, 2011 | by Sean |
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation
I’ve been re-jigging and polishing up some of the leftover code from spider.my and am now fairly happy with the way Shipping-Quote.net keeps its currency exchange rates up to date. I wanted to add another rates source just to fill things out a bit, so it seemed like a good idea to add rates from Russia.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has a web-based daily foreign exchange resource with statistics going back many years. I couldn’t find a single non-interactive page or feed that would make it easy to update the rates at Shipping-Quote.net though, so emailed the address at the bottom of each page at CBR’s web. I got a prompt reply (I’m still surprised – and grateful – when websites do that) telling me that such a resource is available, but the page that explains how to obtain exchange rates from the Bank of the Russia is only available in Russian. That’s cool – Google translate works!
The new rates from Russia now support those vital exchange rate queries which even Google can’t answer, such as the value of 250 Turkmenistan New Manat in Cambodian Riel, or how much 1,000,000 IMF Special Drawing Rights are worth in Moldovan Leu, or how much 1,000 Bahamian Dollars are in Armenian Drams.