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June 25, 2020 22:16
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Bash script to scrape Google for the current USD-to-CAD exchange rate
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Variables (feel free to edit these) | |
| FROM_CURRENCY='usd' | |
| TO_CURRENCY='cad' | |
| # Constants | |
| USER_AGENT="User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Safari/537.36" | |
| SEARCH_URL="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$FROM_CURRENCY%20to%20$TO_CURRENCY" | |
| # Command | |
| OUTPUT=$(curl -s -H "$USER_AGENT" "$SEARCH_URL" | grep -Eo 'data-exchange-rate="[^\"]+"' | grep -Eo '"([^"\\]|\\.)*"') | |
| echo $OUTPUT |
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