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/ Finance::Quote::RBA

NAME

Finance::Quote::RBA - download Reserve Bank of Australia currency rates

SYNOPSIS

use Finance::Quote;
$q = Finance::Quote->new ('RBA');
%rates = $q->fetch ('rba', 'AUDGBP', 'AUDUSD');

DESCRIPTION

This module downloads currency rates for the Australian dollar from the Reserve Bank of Australia,

using the page

As of June 2009 the web site terms of use set out under

are for personal non-commercial use with proper attribution. (It will be noted material is to be used in ``unaltered form'', but the bank advises import into a charting program is permitted.) It's your responsibility to ensure your use of this module complies with current and future terms.

Symbols

The symbols used are "AUDXXX" where XXX is the other currency. The following are available

AUDCNY    Chinese renminbi
AUDEUR    Euro
AUDJPY    Japanese yen
AUDHKD    Hong Kong dollar
AUDIDR    Indonesian rupiah
AUDMYR    Malaysian ringgit
AUDNZD    New Zealand dollar
AUDCHF    Swiss franc
AUDSGD    Singapore dollar
AUDKRW    South Korean won
AUDTWD    Taiwanese dollar
AUDGBP    British pound sterling
AUDUSD    US dollar

Plus the RBA's Trade Weighted Index for the Australian dollar, and the Australian dollar valued in the IMF's Special Drawing Right basket of currencies.

AUDTWI    Trade Weighted Index
AUDSDR    Special Drawing Right

The AUD in each is a bit redundant, but it's in the style of Yahoo Finance and makes it clear which way around the rate is expressed.

Fields

The following standard F-Q fields are returned

date isodate name currency
last close
method source success errormsg

Plus the following extras

time              ISO string "HH:MM"
copyright_url

time is always "16:00", ie. 4pm, currently. The bank publishes TWI (trade weighted index) values for 10am and Noon too, but not until the end of the day when the 4pm value is the latest.

currency is the target cross, since prices are the value of an Australian dollar in the respective currency. For example in "AUDUSD" it's "USD". currency is omitted for "AUDTWI" since "TWI" is probably not a defined international currency code. But it is returned for "AUDSDR", the IMF special drawing right basket.

OTHER NOTES

Currency rates are downloaded just as "prices", there's no tie-in to the Finance::Quote currency conversion feature.

The currency names in the web page are hard coded in this module, so if it's extended or changed the code probably has to be updated (though the name_to_symbol hash is a package variable as an undocumented way to perhaps allow a temporary fix externally).

SEE ALSO

Finance::Quote, LWP

RBA website http://www.rba.gov.au/

HOME PAGE

http://www.geocities.com/user42_kevin/finance-quote-grab/

LICENCE

Copyright 2007, 2008, 2009 Kevin Ryde

Finance-Quote-Grab is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

Finance-Quote-Grab is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Finance-Quote-Grab; see the file COPYING. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.