{"id":1299,"date":"2011-07-29T07:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-07-29T07:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T23:08:54","slug":"foreign-exchange-data-from-central-bank-of-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/2011\/07\/29\/foreign-exchange-data-from-central-bank-of-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Exchange data from Central Bank of Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Central Bank of the Russian Federation<\/p><\/div>\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation<\/a> has a web-based daily foreign exchange resource<\/a> 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<\/a>, but the page that explains how to obtain exchange rates from the Bank of the Russia<\/a> is only available in Russian. That’s cool – Google translate works!<\/p>\n

The new rates from Russia now support those vital exchange rate queries which even Google<\/a> can’t<\/a> answer<\/a>, such as the value of 250 Turkmenistan New Manat in Cambodian Riel<\/a>, or how much 1,000,000 IMF Special Drawing Rights are worth in Moldovan Leu<\/a>, or how much 1,000 Bahamian Dollars are in Armenian Drams<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,60,67,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecommerce","category-money","category-shipping","category-useful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lolyco.com\/sean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}