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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!

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Doesn't seem like it. It's not listed in https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products.

Got that link from https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/exchange/reference/exchangerestapi_getproducts-1.

But I'll check again later.

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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.

Kraken also does not support it: https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/201893658-Currency-pairs-available-for-trading-on-Kraken

However, Binance supports it: https://api.binance.com/api/v3/ticker/price?symbol=BTCZAR

I can create a PR later

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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

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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.

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

See https://api.coinbase.com/v2/currencies (search for ZAR)

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:

https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/sign-in-with-coinbase/docs/api-currencies