currency_Exchange

What it does

This script, using the Freecurrencyapi.net api and the python requests library, gives the exchange rate between two user-specified currencies. The currencies must be specified with their specific three-letter acronyms, and must be entered using capital letters.

How we built it

Using python, the requests library, and the Freecurrencyapi.net api

Challenges we ran into

There are a lack of good open-source apis that get currency data. The ones that exist often have very limited bandwidth, and a low number of available api calls per month. It took a while for me to find the Freecurrencyapi, which has a large number of calls available each month.