> On Feb 18, 2019, at 7:34 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger 
> <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Am 18.02.19 um 16:01 schrieb John Ralls:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 11:50 AM, Christian Kluge <frakturfr...@gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> It might be your so called valuation exercise, but it annoys me very
>>> much that Finance::Quote doesn’t fetch the daily average quotes from the
>>> ECB yet.
>> 
>> Are they published on a website somewhere in a way that a computer can 
>> digest them? Screen-scraping is OK, several of the F::Q modules do that, 
>> it's just fragile.
> 
> Yes
> https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html
> offers also several download formats

Including an XML one, so it would be possible to write an F::Q module that 
retrieves the current day's XML file and extracts a currency rate.

There's also a CSV download, but it would take some massaging to make it usable 
to be imported with the price csv importer.

Regards,
John Ralls


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