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Question by zereda-games · Jan 13 at 03:25 PM · currency

Is there a way to display current live currency data in your app? if so, how and where to i access online data.

Say i wanted to display the difference of 2 said currencies lets just say Canadian Dollar Vs United States Dollar for this example. is there a way of accessing an online page of currencies like i dunno maybe something like 'www1.oanda.com' for instance (maybe there's a better place) to pull the current values from when needed? I've seenthis on apps like coinbase and stuff so it would be kind of neat to learn how to do.

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Answer by andrew-lukasik · Jan 13 at 03:55 PM

Yes. Simplest way to do that is to use REST API. Find a service provider by googling something like "currency REST API". Then call that uri:

 using System.Collections;
 using UnityEngine.Networking;
 
 IEnumerator Start ()
 {
     string uri = "https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json";
     
     var delay = new WaitForSeconds( 10f );
     while( true )
     {
         var www = UnityWebRequest.Get( uri );
 
         var asyncOp = www.SendWebRequest();
         while( asyncOp.isDone==false )
             yield return null;
         
         if( www.result==UnityWebRequest.Result.ConnectionError )
         {
             Debug.LogWarning( www.error );
         }
         else
         {
             string response = www.downloadHandler.text;
             Debug.Log($"Response: {response}");
         }
 
         yield return delay;
     }
 }
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Effin eh thank person thats great to know! Thanks a bunch!!!!

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