forex-cli

📖 Introduction

A Node.js Library to convert foreign exchange in terminal.

⚙️ Installation

npm install --global @kabeep/forex-cli

yarn add --global @kabeep/forex-cli

pnpm add --global @kabeep/forex-cli

🚀 Usage

forex -h

forex <command> [options]

Commands:
  forex convert [amount]  Convert currency amounts       [default] [aliases: to]
  forex currency [code]   Get available currency codes and names
                                                         [aliases: cur, ccy, cy]
  forex list              Print list of available currencies       [aliases: ls]
  forex completion        generate completion script

Options:
  -d, --date       The date for the conversion rate, or "latest" for the most re
                   cent                             [string] [default: "latest"]
      --timeout    Request timeout (milliseconds)      [number] [default: 10000]
      --translate  Translate occurrences of currency or region names
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  -f, --from       The base currency code or locale code
                                                      [string] [default: "auto"]
  -t, --to         The destination currency code or locale code
                                                      [string] [default: "auto"]
  -h, --help       Show help                                           [boolean]
  -v, --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]

Examples:
  forex list -t US -d 2024-12-01  Use the exchange rate for the specif
                                            ied date
  forex convert -t US -d "Dec 01, 2024"  Use the exchange rate for the specif
                                            ied date
  -------
  forex convert -t US --timeout 30000  Set request timeout
  forex currency -t US --translate  Print the translated currency name o
                                            r region name according to the opera
                                            ting system locale
  forex 1000 -f USD -t EUR        Convert 1000 USD to Euros
  -------
  forex -t USD                    Currency codes using ISO 4217
  forex -t US                     Use locale codes from ISO 3166-1
  forex -t America                Use country or region name
  -------
  forex --from USD --to EUR       Specify base and target currencies
  forex --from USD                Specify one of the currencies and au
                                            tomatically fill in the other curren
                                            cy through the OS's locale
  forex --to USD                  Specify one of the currencies and au
                                            tomatically fill in the other curren
                                            cy through the OS's locale

Quick Start

Convert 1000 Euros to your currency (obtained based on OS's locale).

forex 1000 --from EUR

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 381ms
✔ Get the currency exchange rate between EUR and USD on latest 120ms
✨ 1,000.00 Euro (EUR) ≈ 1,050.60 US Dollar (USD)

🔩 Command

Command	Aliases	Default	Parameter	Description
`convert`	`to`	true	amount	Convert currency amounts
`currency`	`cur` / `ccy` / `cy`	false	currency name / currency code / country or region name	Get available currency codes and names
`list`	`ls`	false	-	Print list of available currencies
`completion`	-	false	-	Generate completion script
`help`	-	false	-	Show help

Common Options:

forex list --date "Dec 01, 2024" --timeout 10000 --translate

Option	Type	Optional	Default	Description
`--date` / `-d`	`string`	true	`"latest"`	The date for the conversion rate, or "latest" for the most recent
`--timeout`	`number`	true	`10_000`	Request timeout (milliseconds)
`--translate`	`boolean`	true	`false`	Translate occurrences of currency or region names
`--version` / `-v`	`boolean`	true	`false`	Show version number
`--help` / `-h`	`boolean`	true	`false`	Show help

$ CONVERT (Default)

Convert currency amounts.

Supports numeric separators 10_000, grouped numbers 10,000 and scientific notation 1.23e3.

forex convert -h

forex convert [amount]

Convert currency amounts

Options:
  -d, --date       The date for the conversion rate, or "latest" for the most re
                   cent                             [string] [default: "latest"]
      --timeout    Request timeout (milliseconds)      [number] [default: 10000]
      --translate  Translate occurrences of currency or region names
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  -f, --from       The base currency code or locale code
                                                      [string] [default: "auto"]
  -t, --to         The destination currency code or locale code
                                                      [string] [default: "auto"]
  -h, --help       Show help                                           [boolean]
  -v, --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]

Examples:
  forex 1000 -f USD -t EUR   Convert 1000 USD to Euros
  -------
  forex -t USD               Currency codes using ISO 4217
  forex -t US                Use locale codes from ISO 3166-1
  forex -t America           Use country or region name
  -------
  forex --from USD --to EUR  Specify base and target currencies
  forex --from USD           Specify one of the currencies and automat
                                       ically fill in the other currency through
                                        the OS's locale
  forex --to USD             Specify one of the currencies and automat
                                       ically fill in the other currency through
                                        the OS's locale

Convert 1000 USD to Euros.

forex convert 1000 --from USD --to EUR

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✔ Get the currency exchange rate between USD and EUR on latest 119ms
✨ 1,000.00 US Dollar (USD) ≈ 951.83 Euro (EUR)

Convert your 1000 quantity currency to Euros (acquired based on OS's locale).

forex convert 1000 --to EUR

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✔ Get the currency exchange rate between USD and EUR on latest 119ms
✨ 1,000.00 US Dollar (USD) ≈ 951.83 Euro (EUR)

Convert 1000 Euros to your currency (obtained based on OS's locale).

forex convert 1000 --from EUR

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✔ Get the currency exchange rate between EUR and USD on latest 119ms
✨ 1,000.00 Euro (EUR) ≈ 1,050.60 US Dollar (USD)

Option	Type	Optional	Default	Description
`--from` / `-f`	`string`	true	`"auto"`	The base currency code or locale code
`--to` / `-t`	`string`	true	`"auto"`	The destination currency code or locale code

$ CURRENCY

Get available currency codes and names.

forex currency [code]

Get available currency codes and names

Options:
  -d, --date       The date for the conversion rate, or "latest" for the most re
                   cent                             [string] [default: "latest"]
      --timeout    Request timeout (milliseconds)      [number] [default: 10000]
      --translate  Translate occurrences of currency or region names
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  -v, --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]
  -h, --help       Show help                                           [boolean]

Examples:
  forex cy US       Obtained via ISO-3166-1-alpha-2 region code
  forex cy USD      Obtained via ISO 4217 currency code
  forex cy America  Get by country or region name

Obtained via ISO-3166-1-alpha-2 region code.

forex currency US

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✨ US Dollar (USD)

Obtained via ISO 4217 currency code.

forex currency USD

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✨ US Dollar (USD)

Get by country or region name.

forex currency America

✔ Get the list of available currencies on latest 369ms
✨ US Dollar (USD)

$ LIST

Print list of available currencies.

forex list -h

forex list

Print list of available currencies

Options:
  -d, --date       The date for the conversion rate, or "latest" for the most re
                   cent                             [string] [default: "latest"]
      --timeout    Request timeout (milliseconds)      [number] [default: 10000]
      --translate  Translate occurrences of currency or region names
                                                      [boolean] [default: false]
  -p, --pretty     Pretty output format               [boolean] [default: false]
  -v, --version    Show version number                                 [boolean]
  -h, --help       Show help                                           [boolean]

Examples:
  forex ls     Shows the latest list of available currencies
  forex ls -p  Use unicode table to prettier printed content

Option	Type	Optional	Default	Description
`--pretty` / `-p`	`boolean`	true	`false`	Pretty output format

Shows the latest list of available currencies.

forex list

Bitcoin (BTC)
Chinese Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
Ethereum (ETH)
Euro (EUR)
Japanese Yen (JPY)
Hong Kong Dollar (HKD)
Singapore Dollar (SGD)
US Dollar (USD)
Tether (USDT)
Gold Ounce (XAU)
...

Use unicode table to prettier printed content.

forex list --pretty

┌──────┬────────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│CODE  │NAME                            │TRANSLATION                               │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│BTC   │Bitcoin                         │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│CNY   │Chinese Yuan Renminbi           │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ETH   │Ethereum                        │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│EUR   │Euro                            │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│JPY   │Japanese Yen                    │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│HKD   │Hong Kong Dollar                │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│SGD   │Singapore Dollar                │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│USD   │US Dollar                       │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│USDT  │Tether                          │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│XAU   │Gold Ounce                      │ -                                        │
├──────┼────────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│...   │...                             │...                                       │
└──────┴────────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘

$ COMPLETION

Generate completion script.

forex completion -h

###-begin-forex-completions-###
#
# yargs command completion script
#
# Installation: forex completion >> ~/.bashrc
#    or forex completion >> ~/.bash_profile on OSX.
#
_forex_yargs_completions()
{
    local cur_word args type_list

    cur_word="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}"
    args=("${COMP_WORDS[@]}")

    # ask yargs to generate completions.
    type_list=$(forex --get-yargs-completions "${args[@]}")

    COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "${type_list}" -- ${cur_word}) )

    # if no match was found, fall back to filename completion
    if [ ${#COMPREPLY[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
      COMPREPLY=()
    fi

    return 0
}
complete -o bashdefault -o default -F _forex_yargs_completions forex
###-end-forex-completions-###

$ HELP

Show help.

forex help

Show convert help.
```
forex convert help
```
Show currency help.
```
forex currency help
```
Show list help.
```
forex list help
```

🌐 i18n

Language Name	Native Name	ISO-639-1	ISO-3166-1 (Alpha-2)	Locale File
English	-	en	US	en-US.ts
Chinese Simplified	简体中文	zh	CN	zh-CN.ts

🔗 Related

forex - 💱 A JavaScript foreign exchange library via fawazahmed0's API.

🤝 Contribution

Contributions via Pull Requests or Issues are welcome.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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Documentation

forex-cli

📖 Introduction

⚙️ Installation

🚀 Usage

Quick Start

🔩 Command

$ CONVERT (Default)

$ CURRENCY

$ LIST

$ COMPLETION

$ HELP

🌐 i18n

🔗 Related

🤝 Contribution

📄 License

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Documentation

forex-cli

📖 Introduction

⚙️ Installation

🚀 Usage

Quick Start

🔩 Command

$ CONVERT (Default)

$ CURRENCY

$ LIST

$ COMPLETION

$ HELP

🌐 i18n

🔗 Related

🤝 Contribution

📄 License

Stats

Development practices

Releases

Contributors

@kabeep/forex-cli
Release 0.2.2

Release 0.2.2

0.2.2

0.2.1

0.2.0

0.1.0