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Pythonic access to the exchange rate API hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB, Central Bank of Hungary)
This package provides Pythonic access to the exchange rate API hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB, Central Bank of Hungary).
MNB exposes a publicly available exchange rate API as a SOAP service where they publish their official daily rate between Hungarian Forint (HUF) and most other currencies.
The official documentation of their API is available here (only in Hungarian).
Since this package is published to PyPI, you can install it with any PyPI-compatible package manager, such as pip:
pip install mnb
(mnb-py3.11) vscode ➜ /workspaces/mnb/src (develop) $ python
Python 3.11.1 (main, Jan 11 2023, 14:15:54) [GCC 10.2.1 20210110] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from mnb import Mnb
>>> client = Mnb()
Returns the first and the last day when rates were published, including all available currencies.
>>> client.get_info()
Info(first_date=datetime.date(1949, 1, 3), last_date=datetime.date(2023, 1, 16), currencies=['HUF', 'EUR', 'AUD', 'BGN', 'BRL', 'CAD', 'CHF', 'CNY', 'CZK', 'DKK', 'GBP', 'HKD', 'HRK', 'IDR', 'ILS', 'INR', 'ISK', 'JPY', 'KRW', 'MXN', 'MYR', 'NOK', 'NZD', 'PHP', 'PLN', 'RON', 'RSD', 'RUB', 'SEK', 'SGD', 'THB', 'TRY', 'UAH', 'USD', 'ZAR', 'ATS', 'AUP', 'BEF', 'BGL', 'CSD', 'CSK', 'DDM', 'DEM', 'EEK', 'EGP', 'ESP', 'FIM', 'FRF', 'GHP', 'GRD', 'IEP', 'ITL', 'KPW', 'KWD', 'LBP', 'LTL', 'LUF', 'LVL', 'MNT', 'NLG', 'OAL', 'OBL', 'OFR', 'ORB', 'PKR', 'PTE', 'ROL', 'SDP', 'SIT', 'SKK', 'SUR', 'VND', 'XEU', 'XTR', 'YUD'])
Returns all available currencies.
>>> client.get_currencies()
['HUF', 'EUR', 'AUD', 'BGN', 'BRL', 'CAD', 'CHF', 'CNY', 'CZK', 'DKK', 'GBP', 'HKD', 'HRK', 'IDR', 'ILS', 'INR', 'ISK', 'JPY', 'KRW', 'MXN', 'MYR', 'NOK', 'NZD', 'PHP', 'PLN', 'RON', 'RSD', 'RUB', 'SEK', 'SGD', 'THB', 'TRY', 'UAH', 'USD', 'ZAR', 'ATS', 'AUP', 'BEF', 'BGL', 'CSD', 'CSK', 'DDM', 'DEM', 'EEK', 'EGP', 'ESP', 'FIM', 'FRF', 'GHP', 'GRD', 'IEP', 'ITL', 'KPW', 'KWD', 'LBP', 'LTL', 'LUF', 'LVL', 'MNT', 'NLG', 'OAL', 'OBL', 'OFR', 'ORB', 'PKR', 'PTE', 'ROL', 'SDP', 'SIT', 'SKK', 'SUR', 'VND', 'XEU', 'XTR', 'YUD']
Returns the unit for each currency passed in the parameter.
>>> client.get_currency_units(["EUR", "JPY"])
[CurrencyUnit(currency='EUR', unit=1), CurrencyUnit(currency='JPY', unit=100)]
Returns the latest available exchange rates for all currencies.
Note: Rates are not published over the weekends and public holidays.
>>> client.get_current_exchange_rates()
<Element Day at 0x7f9ef8b09300>
Day(date=datetime.date(2023, 1, 16), rates=[Rate(currency='AUD', rate=256.81), Rate(currency='BGN', rate=203.99), Rate(currency='BRL', rate=72.36), Rate(currency='CAD', rate=275.26), Rate(currency='CHF', rate=398.61), Rate(currency='CNY', rate=54.8), Rate(currency='CZK', rate=16.62), Rate(currency='DKK', rate=53.63), Rate(currency='EUR', rate=398.98), Rate(currency='GBP', rate=449.86), Rate(currency='HKD', rate=47.2), Rate(currency='IDR', rate=0.0245), Rate(currency='ILS', rate=107.78), Rate(currency='INR', rate=4.52), Rate(currency='ISK', rate=2.59), Rate(currency='JPY', rate=2.872), Rate(currency='KRW', rate=0.2981), Rate(currency='MXN', rate=19.56), Rate(currency='MYR', rate=85.43), Rate(currency='NOK', rate=37.25), Rate(currency='NZD', rate=235.75), Rate(currency='PHP', rate=6.76), Rate(currency='PLN', rate=84.92), Rate(currency='RON', rate=80.69), Rate(currency='RSD', rate=3.4), Rate(currency='RUB', rate=5.39), Rate(currency='SEK', rate=35.4), Rate(currency='SGD', rate=279.24), Rate(currency='THB', rate=11.18), Rate(currency='TRY', rate=19.62), Rate(currency='UAH', rate=10.03), Rate(currency='USD', rate=368.71), Rate(currency='ZAR', rate=21.6)])
Returns the first and the last day when rates were published.
>>> client.get_date_interval()
(datetime.date(1949, 1, 3), datetime.date(2023, 1, 16))
Returns the list of rates published between the provided range for the currencies provided.
>>> import datetime
>>> client.get_exchange_rates(datetime.date(2023, 1, 13), datetime.date(2023, 1, 14), ["EUR", "USD"])
<Element Day at 0x7f9ef7fcb980>
[Day(date=datetime.date(2023, 1, 13), rates=[Rate(currency='EUR', rate=396.19), Rate(currency='USD', rate=365.39)])]
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Pythonic access to the exchange rate API hosted by Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB, Central Bank of Hungary)
We found that mnb demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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