django-money-rates

Currency conversion for money

Documentation

The full documentation is at https://django-money-rates.readthedocs.io/.

Quickstart

Install django-money-rates:

pip install django-money-rates

Then use it in a project:

import djmoney_rates

In order to save exchange rates to your database, add djmoney_rates to your INSTALLED_APPS in your project’s settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'djmoney_rates',
    ...
)

Setup the Open Exchange Rates backend

Open an account at https://openexchangerates.org/ if you don’t have one already. Then, add this to your project’s settings:

DJANGO_MONEY_RATES = {
    'DEFAULT_BACKEND': 'djmoney_rates.backends.OpenExchangeBackend',
    'OPENEXCHANGE_URL': 'http://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json',
    'OPENEXCHANGE_APP_ID': 'YOUR APP ID HERE',
    'OPENEXCHANGE_BASE_CURRENCY': 'USD',
}

For more information on the Open Exchange Rates API, see https://openexchangerates.org/

Pull the latest Exchange Rates

Once your backend is setup, get the latest exchange rates:

$ ./manage.py update_rates

Convert from one currency to another

Here’s an example of converting 10 Euros to Brazilian Reais:

from moneyed import Money
from djmoney_rates.utils import convert_money
brl_money = convert_money(10, "EUR", "BRL")

Features

• Convert money from one currency to another with an easy to use API.

TODO List

• Add money converter wrapper for util’s convert_money function.
• Add celery periodic task for getting daily exchange rates.