Get currency exchange rate using bash [closed] - bash

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I would like to display the current exchange rate from the currency euro to us dollar in the command line using bash shell script. I'm using the website market insider.
I saw on someone's blog to use wget command
wget -qO- https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/eur-usd
But how can I display only the rate? Desired output (example for current rate 1.1347) --> 1.1347 $
PS: I would prefer not to use API
Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

Do this cleanly using their API:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
API='https://markets.businessinsider.com/ajax/'
ExchangeRate_GetConversionForCurrenciesNumbers() {
isoCodeForeign=$1
isoCodeLocal=$2
amount=$3
date=$4
cacheFile="/tmp/$date-$amount-$isoCodeForeign-$isoCodeLocal.json"
# Check if we have cached the result to avoid front-running the API
if ! [ -e "$cacheFile" ]; then
post_vars=(
isoCodeForeign="$isoCodeForeign"
isoCodeLocal="$isoCodeLocal"
amount="$amount"
date="$date"
)
method='ExchangeRate_GetConversionForCurrenciesNumbers'
IFS='&' url="$API$method?${post_vars[*]}"
curl -s -X POST "$url" > "$cacheFile"
fi
jq -r '.ConvertedAmountFourDigits' "$cacheFile"
}
getRateEURO_USToday() {
ExchangeRate_GetConversionForCurrenciesNumbers EUR USD 1 "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')"
}
# Set LC_NUMERIC=C because the float format returned is using . as decimal
LC_NUMERIC=C printf 'The exchange rate for EUR to USD today is: %.4f\n' \
"$(getRateEURO_USToday)"