Public API

No key, no signup, open CORS. Use it in your site or your research, and attribute the source.

Rates - JSON

The latest observation per source, market and city, plus the street median and the gap against the official rate. Values are normalised to new lira; what the publisher actually printed is kept in asPublished.

curl https://banksyria.com/api/rates
fieldmeaning
officialofficial rate: value, source, publication time
streetMedianstreet median across publishers (not rows)
streetSourcesnumber of independent publishers in the median
gapthe difference in lira and in percent
quotes[].asPublishedthe figure as published and its currency generation
quotes[].observedAtthe time the publisher stated
quotes[].collectedAtthe time we last read it

Every observation - CSV

The full history: one row per change in a published figure, with both values (as published and in new lira) and the source of each row.

curl https://banksyria.com/api/rates/csv
fieldmeaning
observed_at, collected_atpublication time and last-read time
market, cityofficial / street / international, and city where given
buy_as_published, sell_as_publishedthe original figure, unconverted
currency_generationnew or old (the 100:1 redenomination)
buy_new_lira, sell_new_lirathe normalised value
source, source_urlthe publisher and the page link

The institution register

Banks, microfinance banks and exchange companies/offices as published by the Central Bank of Syria. Omit kind for the whole register.

curl https://banksyria.com/api/institutions?kind=bank
fieldmeaning
kindbank · microfinance · exchange-company · exchange-office · exchange-provisional
groupfor banks: public / private-conventional / private-islamic
source, sourceCheckedAtthe central-bank page and the date we read it
Licence and fair use

The data is available under CC BY 4.0: use it as you like, attributing banksyria.com and the original source named on each row. Figures refresh every thirty minutes, so one request every few minutes is plenty - write to us if you need more. We guarantee neither uptime nor perfection: we relay what others published, and the corrections policy is on the methodology page.

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