Been working on a gap I kept running into: getting official, <\/p>\n
daily FX rates for West African countries programmatically.<\/p>\n
The World Bank has this data but with a 6-12 month lag. <\/p>\n
Everything else is either paywalled or scraped from aggregators <\/p>\n
with no attribution.<\/p>\n
So I built an actor that pulls directly from the issuing <\/p>\n
central banks \u2014 CBN Nigeria, Bank of Ghana, BCEAO for the 8 <\/p>\n
WAEMU nations, and Banco de Cabo Verde. 11 countries, 4 <\/p>\n
currencies, history back to 1996 in some cases.<\/p>\n
A few things I found interesting while building it:<\/p>\n
The 8 WAEMU countries (C\u00f4te d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mali etc.) <\/p>\n
share a currency pegged to the euro by treaty since 1999 \u2014 <\/p>\n
at exactly 655.957 XOF\/EUR, never changed. There’s no <\/p>\n
independently set USD rate, it’s mathematically derived from <\/p>\n
the ECB daily reference rate. <\/p>\n
Every output record carries the source bank, URL, retrieval <\/p>\n
timestamp and licence note \u2014 CBN explicitly grants permission <\/p>\n
to copy with attribution which made things cleaner legally.<\/p>\n
Available here if useful: https:\/\/apify.com\/malmon\/west-africa-fx-rates<\/a> <\/p>\n Happy to answer questions about coverage or methodology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n submitted by \/u\/g_kalle <\/a>
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