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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022 \ parent \ on: 🇿🇦 I made a site for my fellow South Africans to check the sats/Rand rate bitcoin
Okay, I checked again and I noticed the ticker for the South African Rand is ZAR.
But this one also does not show up in their products.
Kraken also does not support it: https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201893658-Currency-pairs-available-for-trading-on-Kraken
However, Binance supports it: https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=BTCZAR
I can create a PR later
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337 sats \ 4 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 21 Oct 2022
Odd that Coinbase's API doesn't support ZAR, the first google result for "sats to zar" is Coinbase's converter: https://www.coinbase.com/converter/sats/zar
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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022
Yes, they have a converter but their API only exposes the ones they support trading for.
I tried to find out where their converter gets the data but it was too messy so I kept looking elsewhere.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 21 Oct 2022
Oh, turns out the Coinbase API does indeed support it:
See https://api.coinbase.com/v2/currencies (search for ZAR)
So we can just use https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/BTC-ZAR/spot as for the other currencies!
So this is the place where one should look up such info:
https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/sign-in-with-coinbase/docs/api-currencies
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 21 Oct 2022
PR: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/pull/207
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @CheezeGrater OP 21 Oct 2022
Thanks a lot!
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