{"repo":"Live-Rates/live-rates.com","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/Live-Rates/live-rates.com","clone":"git clone https://github.com/Live-Rates/live-rates.com.git","description":"Forex Real-time Streaming, Web-service & Rest API","language":null,"stars":43,"topics":["forex","forex-prediction","rates","json-api","api-rest","streaming-api","cross-rates","restful-api","rest-api","cryptocurrency"],"license":null,"category":"api-integrations-sdks","readme_excerpt":"Live-Rates.com Real-time foreign exchange, commodity, and index rates — JSON, XML, and WebSocket streaming. Website · Get a key · Contact · Issues Live-Rates serves 170+ instruments — major & minor FX pairs, metals, crypto, indices, and commodities — updated every second from liquidity providers. Use the REST API for polling, or the Streaming API (socket.io) for push updates with sub-second latency. --- Contents - Quickstart - REST API - List all rates - Get specific pairs - Keyless / free tier - XML format - Response schema - Error responses - Streaming API - Endpoints - Connection lifecycle - Events - Trial access - Historical data - Authentication & rate limits - Regions & geo-routing - Client examples - Cross-rates - Versioning - Support --- Quickstart Don't have a key? Grab a trial — no card required. --- REST API Base URL: https://www.live-rates.com Endpoint Auth Purpose --- --- --- GET /rates optional Full quote stream for every instrument. Keyless = 3 req/hour/IP; with ?key= = unlimited. GET /api/rates required Lightweight index — one row per instrument with its last-update timestamp. GET /api/price?rate=PAIR[,PAIR...] required Full quote(s) for one or more specific pairs. GET /historical/list required List instruments that have historical coverage. GET /historical?base=&date= required Closing price on a given UTC day. GET /historical/series?base=&start=&end= required Series for a period (≤ 30 days). All endpoints accept rate format=xml to switch the payload from JSON","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/Live-Rates","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/Live-Rates/live-rates.com/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}