# Currency Exchange for Raycast

URL: https://www.raycast.com/xeric/currency-exchange

> Simple Currency Exchange, uses Exchange Rate API as the data source

- Install: raycast://extensions/xeric/currency-exchange
- Author: [sbefz](https://www.raycast.com/xeric)
- Installs: 199
- Updated: 2022-06-09
- Source: https://github.com/raycast/extensions/tree/9d3aa5c0a2d43e06053a8194bf3f7dc483c75f9d/extensions/currency-exchange/

## Commands

- **Currency Exchange**: Calculate with Exchange Rate

## README

### Raycast Currency Exchange extension

#### Features
* Support 161 currencies, see list: https://www.exchangerate-api.com/docs/supported-currencies
* Support calculate expression e.g `1+2/3*4`
* Support find target currency by filter, format: `${expression} in ${filter key word}`
* Support pin your favorite currencies
* Remember the source currency


![exchange_based_on_expression](https://github.com/raycast/extensions/raw/9d3aa5c0a2d43e06053a8194bf3f7dc483c75f9d/extensions/currency-exchange//media/expression.png)

calculate currency exchange expression

![youdao_translate_result](https://github.com/raycast/extensions/raw/9d3aa5c0a2d43e06053a8194bf3f7dc483c75f9d/extensions/currency-exchange//media/filter.png)

find target currency with filter

#### How to get API Keys
* Go to https://www.exchangerate-api.com/ and register a account, it is free
* Go to https://app.exchangerate-api.com/keys to find your API Key

currency rate will be queried every 24 hours to reduce API usage.

##### why I create another currency extension?
There's a currency exchange function out of box in Raycast's Calculator.
You can type like `12 usd in gbp` to show the currency exchange result.
In some case, when you exactly know the currency code, it works fine, but it still has some challanges:
1. Sometimes, if you are not native speaker, you may not know the exact currency code, since it is always 3 chars like `KRW`, the `W` is from `Won` in Korea, not easy to understand.
2. Some case, I want to always use a dedicate source currecy, not type it always.
3. Some case, I want to focus on a few dedicated currecies, just type number, get result.
Based on above reason, I created a new one.