raise RatesNotAvailableError("Currency Rates Source Unavailable.") forex_python.converter.RatesNotAvailableError: Currency Rates Source Unavailable.

[Ana-Niko-byte]

Hi all, is the API down again? It was working perfectly 30 mins ago

[M-Borsuk]

Same issue here.. Api seems to be down.

[Ana-Niko-byte]

Any idea when it should be back up running? Need it for a project due in 4 days :(

[GonzaloJMan]

Ay updates on this?

[paridev]

Same issue here! any update?

[GonzaloJMan]

Doesn't look like. I had to comment the library in the code, as it was returning every time I tried to use it a weird "Module not imported forex_python" with an Error 522 , even if the code hadn't change in 14 months...

[Dub27]

Connection appears to be down -> NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x00000170363F6E10>: Failed to establish a new connection: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond',))

[billy-moore-98]

API is still down as of 28/02, any help would be greatly appreciated: forex_python.converter.RatesNotAvailableError: Currency Rates Source Not Ready.

[sebastianboscan]

Same issue here. I was able to work around it by using the bitcoin converter instead.

from forex_python.bitcoin import BtcConverter
b = BtcConverter()

# Input type of currency (EUR, USD, GBP, CAD, AUD, and others)
source_currency = input("Currency: ").upper()
target_currency = input("Target currency: ").upper()

# Get the amount to exchange
amount_to_exchange = int(input(f"How much {source_currency} would you like to exchange? "))

# Get the price of Bitcoin in the currency being exchanged
btc_amount = b.convert_to_btc(amount_to_exchange, source_currency)
print(f"Price of {amount_to_exchange} {source_currency}: {btc_amount}")

# Convert Bitcoin to the target currency
exchange_rate = b.convert_btc_to_cur(btc_amount, target_currency)
print(f"{amount_to_exchange} {source_currency} = {exchange_rate} {target_currency}")

Could my code be better? Absolutely.
I'd add some kind of check to the user input (such as making sure that the currency they typed does exist) but this is good for my use case as is.

Hope this helps as a temporary solution!

[danimaeztu]

I think i'ts down again

[yunhongz]

Any other alternatives?

[cowiekw]

@yunhongz I had success with https://pypi.org/project/CurrencyConverter/