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Using the official exchange rate in Venezuela's e-commerce

2024-01-19 3 min read Web Scrapping
Venezuela has unique challenges for e-commerce. Local laws and tax regulations required to engage with the consumer base. A simple web scraper built in Python with FastAPI can be useful for a software developer who wants to access the exchange rate from the official website of Banco Central de Venezuela. We will briefly explore when this is a good idea and how to do it. Continue reading