ve-exchange-rates: Venezuelan Exchange Rates
Get current exchange rates for Venezuela:
- Tasa BCV - Official Central Bank rate from the BCV website
- Tasa USDT Binance P2P - Average from P2P market
- Brecha cambiaria - Gap between official and parallel rates
Usage
Run the wrapper script to get current rates:
./skills/ve-exchange-rates/scripts/get-rates.sh
The shell script is now a thin wrapper around a Python implementation:
python3 ./skills/ve-exchange-rates/scripts/get_rates.py
Output
The script returns:
- BCV official rate (Bs/USD)
- BCV source used
- BCV "Fecha Valor" extracted from the site
- Warning if the BCV date does not match the expected current run window
- Binance P2P USDT rates (buy/sell/average)
- Gap percentage between BCV and P2P
- Example conversion from 100 USD at BCV rate into USDT at P2P rate
Data Sources
- BCV rate: scraped directly from bcv.org.ve
- BCV validation: extracts and validates Fecha Valor from the BCV page
- Fallback for BCV: exchangerate-api.com only if BCV cannot be parsed
- USDT P2P: Binance P2P API (
p2p.binance.com)
Notes
- BCV is the primary source and should be treated as the authoritative rate
- The skill warns when the BCV "Fecha Valor" does not match today or tomorrow
- P2P rates fluctuate constantly based on market conditions
- Main implementation now lives in Python for readability and easier auditing
- The shell entrypoint is only a thin wrapper that invokes
get_rates.py - The implementation uses standard library HTTP requests and
bc for decimal math formatting compatibility - If BCV is temporarily unavailable, the skill falls back to a secondary source to preserve functionality