How to get currency by api?

Question

Data request

Good day.

The ECB website provides api for exchange rates

For example:

Exchange rates for today - https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxre...

History of exchange rates 90 days - https://www.ecb.europa. eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxre...

And there is also the possibility to receive courses on a specific date, but I still don't understand what request to make to get it.

Found the following line:

<gesmes:Envelope xmlns:gesmes="http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01" xmlns="http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref">

but none of the links work.

Can you please tell me what request I need to make in order to receive the exchange rate for a specific date?

UPD
There is a site https://exchangeratesapi.io that implements this feature - https://api.exchangeratesapi.io/2010-01-12 and has source code - https://github.com/exchangeratesapi/exchangeratesa.. . , but I do not know python, can someone tell me how it is implemented?

Answer 1

It's not an API, just links to files.
Take the full XML ( https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxre... ) and get data for all days. It remains to enter them into your database and in the future add only current data.