Currency conversions

[Cantello]

Would be great if the converter could also handle currency conversions, similar to Yosemite's spotlight, e.g. type "2000 isk eur" to instantly get the converted euro amount.

[wolph]

Sorry for the slow response, it seems Github didn't mail me of this issue...

Adding currency conversions is somewhere on the todo list but it's probably not going to happen too soon as it requires regular updating and I would need to find a reliable source for the currency information.

[wolph]

If anyone has a suggestion for a stable source of a whole list of currencies, let me know :)

[BreiteSeite]

Maybe something from this? https://github.com/n0shake/Public-APIs#currency

[wolph]

It seems the RatesAPI is the fastest freely available option. The ones that don't require an API key only update once a day, but I guess that should be enough for this purpose.

It's certainly on my todo.

As a backup the OpenRates API is an option too but that appears to be slightly slower.

Thanks for the suggestion @BreiteSeite :)

[dsully]

Would love to see this as well. Thanks!

[wolph]

The plan is to use this API, it updates daily and seems a perfect fit for this project: https://github.com/fawazahmed0/currency-api#readme

Hopefully the stalebot won't keep closing this :P

[AntonTal]

It seems that this feature broke due to some api access key problems.

[wolph]

@AntonTal I've yet to implement this feature so you're not getting that error from this extension :) But thanks for the reminder, I'll put it higher on my list to work on