Fixer.io API no longer works

[bnvk]

Today the API ProTip was using fixer.io ceased offering a free, open, public API of currency conversions. The service now requires registering for an API key as well as many paid-tiers. Once registered, making the code work with the new API key is easy:

If your old API Call was https://api.fixer.io/latest then your new integration should point to: https://data.fixer.io/api/latest?access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY

This works for my temp dev needs, but this is not a long term solution due to:

• Free account only offers 1000 calls per month
• Paid accounts will incur cost + potentially exploited by non-ProTip users

Possible solutions:

1. Do a paid account and not worry it about for now
2. Run our own instance of FixerAPI which seems pretty easy