Load currencies/currency values from 3rd party.

RillingDev / yugioh-deck-tool

A tool to share and edit decks, view deck prices, and much more.

https://ygoprodeck.com/card-database/deck-prices/

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Load currencies/currency values from 3rd party. #58

Closed RillingDev closed 2 years ago

RillingDev commented 4 years ago

https://stackoverflow.com/a/8391430/6454249

RillingDev commented 4 years ago

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html#dev) seems reliable and free, with the only caveats being

the default currency being Euro, meaning we need to calculate the rate from euro against usd against all prices
it being XML based rather than JSON

RillingDev commented 4 years ago

Turns out ECB's API is not meant for browser consumption as no CORS headers are set; There is https://exchangeratesapi.io, however here CORS Preflight fails.

RillingDev commented 2 years ago

Current 'solution' of running build script to fetch data is reasonable