README.md

Exchange Rates

The program was created as part of the test task for Lokalise. A simple request to an exchange API by getting information on exchange rates for 2010-01-15(+input date) and putting the results to any Google Spreadsheet.

Installation

To run the program, you need to install Python 3 (https://www.python.org/downloads/). And also install the following libraries - pandas, requests и google-api-python-client, by typing the following commands into the command line:

pip install pandas
pip install requests
pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client google-auth-httplib2 google-auth-oauthlib

Usage

In order to write data to an html table, you need to run the program in the command line start_html_table.py:

python <path_to_file>/start_html_table.py

In order to write data to the Google spreadsheet, you need to execute the script start_write_to_sheet.

python <path_to_file>/start_write_to_sheet.py

To display data from the Google spreadsheet, you need to execute the script start_read_from_sheet:

python <path_to_file>/start_read_from_sheet.py

To delete data from the Google spreadsheet, you need to execute the script start_delete_from_sheet:

python <path_to_file>/start_delete_from_sheet.py

Exchange Rates API

By changing url in exchange_rates_fixed.py you can get a number of endpoints where each of them provides different functionality.

url = 'http://api.exchangeratesapi.io/v1/2010-01-15?access_key=2146e6519dc5c7836c76a433d6049c84'

For more information go to https://exchangeratesapi.io/documentation/

Google Spreadsheet Link

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kOaQAhonJzYo7weurSmiaYiR8B_J1iqwnckPAuJMCJU/

Fixed script(2010-01-15) uses first list in this spreadsheet.

In order to change spreadsheet you need to ask me for a json.keys or generate a new pair of keys in Google cloud platform.