Even though the top 21 currencies are currently avaiable, you can add a new currency by editing the program.
In particular, when you open the program GetExchangeData.prg, you will see the following two lines:
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%currency_list = """US Dollar"" ""Euro"" ""Australian Dollar"" ""Brazilian Real"" ""British Pound"" ""Canadian Dollar"" ""Chinese Yuan"" ""Danish Krone"" ""Hong Kong Dollar"" ""Indian Rupee"" ""Japanese Yen"" ""Korean Won"" ""Malaysian Ringgit"" ""Mexican Peso"" ""New Zealand Dollar"" ""Norwegian Krone"" ""Singapore Dollar"" ""South African Rand"" ""Sri Lanka Rupee"" ""Swedish Krona"" ""Swiss Franc"""
%currency_code = "USD EUR AUD BRL GBP CAD CNY DKK HKD INR JPY KRW MYR MXN NZD NOK SGD ZAR LKR SEK CHF"
Now suppose that you want to download the exchange rate between the US Dollars and the Argentine Peso.
By filling the last element of %currency_list and %currency_code with "Argentine Peso" and "ARS", respectively, you can download the series of interest.
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%currency_list = """US Dollar"" ""Euro"" ""Australian Dollar"" ""Brazilian Real"" ""British Pound"" ""Canadian Dollar"" ""Chinese Yuan"" ""Danish Krone"" ""Hong Kong Dollar"" ""Indian Rupee"" ""Japanese Yen"" ""Korean Won"" ""Malaysian Ringgit"" ""Mexican Peso"" ""New Zealand Dollar"" ""Norwegian Krone"" ""Singapore Dollar"" ""South African Rand"" ""Sri Lanka Rupee"" ""Swedish Krona"" ""Swiss Franc"" ""Argentine Peso"""
%currency_code = "USD EUR AUD BRL GBP CAD CNY DKK HKD INR JPY KRW MYR MXN NZD NOK SGD ZAR LKR SEK CHF ARS"
*Note that "Argentine Peso" and "ARS" should be in the same order as each other.
[Change log]
- 2011/02/11 Able to retrieve the data with more than 500 observations