Live currency feed.

[Infernal Spawn of Evil]

I'm using a commercial currency converter on some of my sites, but I would rather code my own to make it more seemless.

Does anybody know of a live currency rate XML feed that I can pull? USD/ZAR is the most important, but GBP and Euro would also be nice.

 

[ld13]

Last time I had to do this we used yahoo ...
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=USDZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=EURZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GBPZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv

 

[HavocXphere]

The chance of you find a free feed is pretty much zero.

Last time I had to do this we used yahoo ...
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=USDZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=EURZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=GBPZAR=X&f=sl1d1t1ba&e=.csv

Delayed quotes != Live

"Quotes delayed, except where indicated otherwise. Currency in USD"

 

[debonair]

If you did have access to a commercial feed would it be illegal to make it available to others for free by proxying it through your site i wonder??? hmmm...

 

[Infernal Spawn of Evil]

I suppose it would be possible - but I wouldn't wanna mess around with possibly having it shut down on me when it's a vital to the functionality of my sites.

 

[HavocXphere]

If you did have access to a commercial feed would it be illegal to make it available to others for free by proxying it through your site i wonder??? hmmm...

Unless there thick as a plank they've got that covered in the contract.

@Infernal: If you do find anything then please PM me....interested too.

Oh and found this: http://scraperwiki.com/ Not 100% what we're looking as its mostly aimed at historical info but interesting nonetheless.

 

[Infernal Spawn of Evil]

I dunno how "live" it is, but this one looks pretty good http://themoneyconverter.com/ZAR/rss.xml

There are a bunch more here -->http://www.currencysystem.com/currencyserver/feeds/ if you scroll down past the software screen shots.

 

[xera]

Could try http://www.truefx.com/

It's straight forward to implement, and seems to work well...

Not sure where they get their prices from though.

 

[HavocXphere]

Could try http://www.truefx.com/

It's straight forward to implement, and seems to work well...

Not sure where they get their prices from though.

Either the thing on the front page is a static sample or its broken. The minute count on the time tag should match the current time if its live.

 

[xera]

Either the thing on the front page is a static sample or its broken. The minute count on the time tag should match the current time if its live.

Actually the markets are closed because it's the weekend.

 

[HavocXphere]

Actually the markets are closed because it's the weekend.

Thanks learned something new there. I considered exactly that & then abandoned the idea because they should move 24hrs a day. Apparently not though:

its continuous operation: 24 hours a day except weekends, i.e. trading from 20:15 GMT on Sunday until 22:00 GMT Friday;

 

[marco]

Open a Demo Account at www.fxcm.com and download Metatrader4 to your laptop. You will have live prices on all forex and more.. Or if you want it on your mobile phone, get the mobi version at www.avafx.com.
I am a forex trader so also need live prices.

 

[Bluray]

I use bloomberg mobile and worldmate to get the latest updates on my phone.

 

[Pegging]

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