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Created 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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exchange-rate.sh
#!/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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