Real-time Rates

Both free and paid users may access real-time exchange rates using the currencylayer API's live endpoint.

Optionally, it is possible to define an additional source currency and specific output currencies using the currencies parameter. Both of these options will be discussed in detail throughout this documentation.

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

Request Parameters

Name	Type	Description
access_key	string	Your access key
source	string	Source currency code (optional) (default:USD)
currencies	string	Target currency codes (optional)

Sample Requests

cURL

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

Javascript

const axios = require('axios');

let config = {
  method: 'get',
  url: 'https://api.curexapi.com/live?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&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/live?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&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/live?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY&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
    }
}