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Python Web Scraping Script to Scrape Real Time Currency Exchange Rates from Google Using BS4 Library
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video so
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in this video I'll show you a simple uh
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Python module which actually uh does the
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web scraping and actually scrapes the
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live currency rate of all the currencies
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in the world and displays the result in
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the terminal so you need not have to use
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any sort of API key paid API for uh
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building any sort of currency kind of an
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application currency converter so we
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have using this you will see we have a
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set of currencies uh USD to a AUD
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Australian dollar so we're converting
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this if I execute this Python script you
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will see it will exactly fetch the live
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rate from Google using web scraping
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using beautiful soup in the background
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and it is exactly telling me that 100
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USD is equal to
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154.17 AUD you can even cross check as
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well by just typing here 100 USD to AUD
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and then it will exactly fetch this rate
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live rate from Google you will see
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roundabout
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155.51 so right it's correct you can use
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any currency let's suppose I want to
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change this to USD to INR Indian rupees
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so you will
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see it will be like this let me refresh
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it 100 USD is equal to
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8509 INR so you can
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just so it is fetching this all this
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data from live from
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google.com so in the background it is
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fetching this data so 8563 if you see
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that roundabout it is correct so there
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is this is actually a free module inside
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Python you can install this simple
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currency converter so if you just go to
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this website just search for this
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module so the commands is simple simply
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install this by executing this command
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pip install simple currency converter so
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it's a third party modules made by
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somebody and once you install this you
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can even use it in the command line as
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well by going to command line just
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typing
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here uh first of all let me show you how
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to use it in the actual script so first
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of all you simply import this module
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from simple currency converter you need
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to import this function here
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convert and then you
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basically use this convert function and
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specify the currency name that you want
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to convert from so I will say I want to
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convert from USD
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to euro U and then you specify the value
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so 100 USD ins I need to convert and
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then you simply print the
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result
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100 USD is equal to that much of euro so
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if you just execute this application
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so 100 USD is equal to 8 9
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37485 so
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roundabout you'll see it is correct
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result 8 93
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0 so in this way guys uh you can see we
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are not using any sort of API key you
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can use this unlimited number of time
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for completely free i recently explored
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this module last week so if you go to
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their website they do have a nice little
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documentation and uh they also have all
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the currency code stored so if you do
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this it has the crypto codes as well so
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cryptocurrencies also I think it's
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available you'll see it will return a
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JSON object which will contain all the
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currency codes USD dollar euro British
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pound Canadian dollar Australian dollar
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Japanese Indian rupee all the major
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currencies are there and you can even
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print out cryptocurrencies are as well i
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think crypto codes are also there and
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then you
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can can print out
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everything you can see that it also
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contains this uh cryptocurrencies as
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well i think you can
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see so you can check out their
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uh documentation it's actually behind
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the scenes it is using beautiful soup
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and also it is using this
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uh uh API
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here so you can see no rate limits are
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there so there is no limits out there
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you can use it unlimited number of times
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you're developing some kind of web
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application involving currencies and
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cryptocurrencies
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you can even use it in the command line
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as well after installing this i think
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you can
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even but at the time is it is not
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working but you can try this it's a
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great
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module and uh I think let me explore
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this example
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uh and just ask here chat GPT to make a
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cryptocurrency converter so I will just
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say modify this example
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to change Bitcoin
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to
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Ethereum so yeah
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so it is it doesn't work with cryp
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cryptocurrencies it it just work with
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the flat currencies I think yeah so you
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can use this for flat currencies
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conversion from one currency to another
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it typically works it's a great module
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you can see
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that so thank you very much guys for
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