reply on: 🇿🇦 I made a site for my fellow South Africans to check the sats/Rand rate \ stacker news ~bitcoin

I wonder if we should add the rand to the currencies we support.

@ekzyis did coinbase's API support the Rand?

Would be much appreciated!

But I'll check again later.

Okay, I checked again and I noticed the ticker for the South African Rand is ZAR.

But this one also does not show up in their products.

I can create a PR later

Odd that Coinbase's API doesn't support ZAR, the first google result for "sats to zar" is Coinbase's converter: https://www.coinbase.com/converter/sats/zar

Yes, they have a converter but their API only exposes the ones they support trading for.

I tried to find out where their converter gets the data but it was too messy so I kept looking elsewhere.

Oh, turns out the Coinbase API does indeed support it:

So we can just use https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/BTC-ZAR/spot as for the other currencies!

So this is the place where one should look up such info:

Thanks a lot!