Currency Exchange Endpoint

The Currency Exchange endpoint allows you to get the exchange of any local currency compared against USD

Currency Exchange

GET api-stg.onekeypayments.com/v3/exchange_rates?country={country}&amount={amount}

The exchange_rates endpoint allow you to get the exchange of any currency compared against USD.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
country	string	Country ISO code in whose local currency the amount will be converted to.
amount	number	Amount to convert in USD. If none is specified, 1 will be assumed.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authorization	string	"Bearer " + Read-Only API Key

200 Currency exchange correctly returned.

{
  "fx_rate":5.8829,
  "currency":"BRL",
  "converted_amount":58.829
}

400 The country specified was incorrect

401 Invalid credentials error

{
    "code": 100,
    "description": "Invalid credentials"
}

Please find all the country codes in the Countries Specifications section.

Description

The currency exchange endpoint allows you to check the exchange of any currency against USD.

Request

In order to start using the Currency Exchange endpoint, you need to:

1. Send the request with GET method.

2. Specify a valid country code in the request as QUERY PARAMS.
3. Optionally, you can send the amount in USD you want to convert. Otherwise we will return the exchange for USD 1.

4. Send the Authorization header with your read-only API Key as Bearer as follows:

Authorization: Bearer your_read_only_key_here

Example request

cURL

curl --location --request GET 'https://api-stg.onekeypayments.com/v3/exchange_rates?country=BR&amount=10' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer your_read_only_key_here'

JAVA

import java.io.*;
import okhttp3.*;

public class main {
  public static void main(String []args) throws IOException{
    OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder()
      .build();
    Request request = new Request.Builder()
      .url("https://api-stg.onekeypayments.com/v3/exchange_rates?country=BR&amount=10")
      .method("GET", null)
      .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_read_only_key_here")
      .build();
    Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
    System.out.println(response.body().string());
  }
}

C#

using System;
using RestSharp;

namespace HelloWorldApplication {
    class HelloWorld {
        static void Main(string[] args) {
            var client = new RestClient("https://api-stg.onekeypayments.com/v3/exchange_rates?country=BR&amount=10");
            client.Timeout = -1;
            var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
            request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer your_read_only_key_here");
            IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
            Console.WriteLine(response.Content);
        }
    }
}

PHP

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api-stg.onekeypayments.com/v3/exchange_rates?country=BR&amount=10",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "Authorization: Bearer your_read_only_key_here"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

Example Response

{
  "fx_rate":5.8829,
  "currency": "BRL",
  "converted_amount":58.829
}

Response fields

Field name	Format	Description
fx_rate	Number	Currency exchange
currency	String	Currency used for the conversion
converted_amount	Number	Amount resulting from multiplying the amount you sent with the fx_rate