Historical Rates

The curexapi API provides accurate historical exchange rate data for every past day all the way back to the year of 1999.

Historical rates may be accessed by simply attaching the date parameter with a valid date (Format: YYYY-MM-DD) to the API's historical endpoint.

GET https://api.curexapi.com/historical

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Description
access_key	string	Your access key
date	string	Date format: YYYY-MM-DD
source	string	Source currency code (optional) (default:USD)
currencies	string	Target currency codes (optional)

Sample Requests

cURL

curl --location 'https://api.curexapi.com/historical?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&date=2023-01-01&source=USD&currencies=EUR%2CGBP'

Javascript

const axios = require('axios');

let config = {
  method: 'get',
  maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: 'https://api.curexapi.com/historical?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&date=2023-01-01&source=USD&currencies=EUR,GBP',
  headers: { }
};

axios.request(config)
.then((response) => {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => 'https://api.curexapi.com/historical?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&date=2023-01-01&source=USD&currencies=EUR%2CGBP',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET',
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Python

import requests

url = "https://api.curexapi.com/historical?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&date=2023-01-01&source=USD&currencies=EUR,GBP"

response = requests.request("GET", url)

print(response.text)

Sample Response

{
    "success": true,
    "timestamp": 1672531200,
    "source": "USD",
    "date": "2023-01-01",
    "rates": {
        "EUR": 0.932,
        "GBP": 0.827
    }
}