Exchange Rates APIAbout Exchange Rates API
The 4:59 PM Problem
It was a Thursday afternoon. A client needed official RBA exchange rates for a compliance report due at 5:00 PM. The RSS feed was down. The backup scraper had broken when the RBA updated their HTML. Again.
That moment crystallized years of frustration. Every Australian business needs RBA exchange rates, yet we're all maintaining our own brittle scrapers, parsing inconsistent formats, and hoping nothing breaks during EOFY.
Built by Developers, For Developers
I'm a Sunshine Cost based developer who's built financial integrations for Australian businesses for over a decade. After rebuilding the same RBA data pipeline for the fifth client, I realized this shouldn't be everyone's problem to solve.
Exchange Rates API turns the Reserve Bank's public data into what it should be: a simple, reliable JSON API with proper documentation, versioning, and SLAs.
Why Australian Matters
Every major exchange rate API is operated from overseas. They price in USD or EUR. Their support works US or European hours. They treat the Australian dollar as just another currency, not the foundation of our economy.
We're different:
- Australian-operated with data sovereignty in Australia
- Support that understands EOFY, BAS deadlines, and NSW public holidays
- Built for the RBA's schedule - reliable 4PM AEST updates
- Priced in AUD with proper GST invoices
From Side Project to Serious Infrastructure
What started as a script to solve my own problem has evolved into production infrastructure serving businesses across Australia. But the mission remains the same: no Australian developer should waste time parsing RBA feeds when they could be building their actual product.
Simple Promise, Serious Delivery
We do one thing obsessively well: deliver Reserve Bank of Australia exchange rates via modern REST APIs.
No scraping needed. No parsing required. No maintenance headaches.
Just reliable, documented, Australian-operated infrastructure for Australian businesses.