Google currency

Disclaimer: This package fetch the result from Google using web scrapping. Owner will not be responsible for any misuse of this package. This is solely for the purpose of learning.

A very simple currency converter.

It can convert the currency of 153 codes.

Since the results are fetched from Google directly, you can trust the results :-D

Installation

To install the library run the below command (This will also install requests)

• pip install google-currency

Usage

from google_currency import convert  

# Converted without comma like 70000.00 
convert('usd', 'inr', 1000) 

# Converted amount with comma like 70,000.00
convert('usd', 'inr', 1000)

This will return a JSON response like below

{  
	 "converted": true, 
	 "from": "USD", 
	 "to": "INR", 
	 "amount": "74876.00"
}

{  
	 "converted": true, 
	 "from": "USD", 
	 "to": "INR", 
	 "amount": "74,876.00"
}    

Response description

• converted: Boolean indicating whether the amount is converted or not, if this is false than it means the
  currency code is not valid and the amount is not converted and it will be equal to 0.

• amount: Converted amount

• from: Currency code from which the amount is converted.

• to: Currency code to which the amount is converted.