Reference Rates
API change historyThe exchange rates are euro reference rates published by the European central bank. The reference rates are published daily at about 5 PM Finnish time, when the TARGET system is open. The reference rates are published for the information of the public and different institutions but not as a basis for trade.
Request
Request URL
Request parameters
-
(optional)string
-
(optional)string
-
(optional)string
-
(optional)string
Currencies to return (e.g. "GBP,JPY,SEK"). Leave empty to return all.
-
(optional)boolean
Request body
Responses
200 OK
OK
Representations
[
{
"ExchangeRates": [
{
"ObservationDate": "string",
"Value": 0.0
}
],
"Currency": "string",
"CurrencyDenom": "string",
"CurrencyNameFi": "string",
"CurrencyNameSe": "string",
"CurrencyNameEn": "string",
"ECBPublished": "string"
}
]
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ExchangeRates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ObservationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"Value": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
}
}
},
"Currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyDenom": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameFi": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameSe": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameEn": {
"type": "string"
},
"ECBPublished": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
[
{
"ExchangeRates": [
{
"ObservationDate": "string",
"Value": 0.0
}
],
"Currency": "string",
"CurrencyDenom": "string",
"CurrencyNameFi": "string",
"CurrencyNameSe": "string",
"CurrencyNameEn": "string",
"ECBPublished": "string"
}
]
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ExchangeRates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ObservationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"Value": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
}
}
},
"Currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyDenom": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameFi": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameSe": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameEn": {
"type": "string"
},
"ECBPublished": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
<ExchangeRateInfoArray>
<ExchangeRates>
<ObservationDate>string</ObservationDate>
<Value>0</Value>
</ExchangeRates>
<Currency>string</Currency>
<CurrencyDenom>string</CurrencyDenom>
<CurrencyNameFi>string</CurrencyNameFi>
<CurrencyNameSe>string</CurrencyNameSe>
<CurrencyNameEn>string</CurrencyNameEn>
<ECBPublished>string</ECBPublished>
</ExchangeRateInfoArray>
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ExchangeRates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ObservationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"Value": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
}
}
},
"Currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyDenom": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameFi": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameSe": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameEn": {
"type": "string"
},
"ECBPublished": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
<ExchangeRateInfoArray>
<ExchangeRates>
<ObservationDate>string</ObservationDate>
<Value>0</Value>
</ExchangeRates>
<Currency>string</Currency>
<CurrencyDenom>string</CurrencyDenom>
<CurrencyNameFi>string</CurrencyNameFi>
<CurrencyNameSe>string</CurrencyNameSe>
<CurrencyNameEn>string</CurrencyNameEn>
<ECBPublished>string</ECBPublished>
</ExchangeRateInfoArray>
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ExchangeRates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ObservationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"Value": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
}
}
},
"Currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyDenom": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameFi": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameSe": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameEn": {
"type": "string"
},
"ECBPublished": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
<ExchangeRateInfoArray>
<ExchangeRates>
<ObservationDate>string</ObservationDate>
<Value>0</Value>
</ExchangeRates>
<Currency>string</Currency>
<CurrencyDenom>string</CurrencyDenom>
<CurrencyNameFi>string</CurrencyNameFi>
<CurrencyNameSe>string</CurrencyNameSe>
<CurrencyNameEn>string</CurrencyNameEn>
<ECBPublished>string</ECBPublished>
</ExchangeRateInfoArray>
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ExchangeRates": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ObservationDate": {
"type": "string"
},
"Value": {
"format": "double",
"type": "number"
}
}
}
},
"Currency": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyDenom": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameFi": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameSe": {
"type": "string"
},
"CurrencyNameEn": {
"type": "string"
},
"ECBPublished": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
404 Not Found
NotFound
Representations
string
{
"type": "string"
}
string
{
"type": "string"
}
<ApiExchangeRateGet404TextHtmlResponse>string</ApiExchangeRateGet404TextHtmlResponse>
{
"type": "string"
}
<ApiExchangeRateGet404ApplicationXmlResponse>string</ApiExchangeRateGet404ApplicationXmlResponse>
{
"type": "string"
}
<ApiExchangeRateGet404TextXmlResponse>string</ApiExchangeRateGet404TextXmlResponse>
{
"type": "string"
}
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X GET "https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2?type={string}&startDate={string}&endDate={string}¤cies={string}&includeNonECBPublCur={boolean}"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request parameters
queryString["type"] = "{string}";
queryString["startDate"] = "{string}";
queryString["endDate"] = "{string}";
queryString["currencies"] = "{string}";
queryString["includeNonECBPublCur"] = "{boolean}";
var uri = "https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2?" + queryString;
var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2");
builder.setParameter("type", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("startDate", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("endDate", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("currencies", "{string}");
builder.setParameter("includeNonECBPublCur", "{boolean}");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
"type": "{string}",
"startDate": "{string}",
"endDate": "{string}",
"currencies": "{string}",
"includeNonECBPublCur": "{boolean}",
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
},
type: "GET",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
@"type={string}",
@"startDate={string}",
@"endDate={string}",
@"currencies={string}",
@"includeNonECBPublCur={boolean}",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
// Request headers
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
'type' => '{string}',
'startDate' => '{string}',
'endDate' => '{string}',
'currencies' => '{string}',
'includeNonECBPublCur' => '{boolean}',
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'type': '{string}',
'startDate': '{string}',
'endDate': '{string}',
'currencies': '{string}',
'includeNonECBPublCur': '{boolean}',
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.boffsaopendata.fi')
conn.request("GET", "/referencerates/v2/api/V2?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
# Request parameters
'type': '{string}',
'startDate': '{string}',
'endDate': '{string}',
'currencies': '{string}',
'includeNonECBPublCur': '{boolean}',
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.boffsaopendata.fi')
conn.request("GET", "/referencerates/v2/api/V2?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.boffsaopendata.fi/referencerates/v2/api/V2')
query = URI.encode_www_form({
# Request parameters
'type' => '{string}',
'startDate' => '{string}',
'endDate' => '{string}',
'currencies' => '{string}',
'includeNonECBPublCur' => '{boolean}'
})
if query.length > 0
if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
uri.query += '&' + query
else
uri.query = query
end
end
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body