Register a Riksbank API key
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This page is a capture in the inbox bucket of the product backlog — a pre-sprint idea, not yet pulled into a sprint as a story.
1. What
Register an account on the Riksbank API portal, and give the official rates adapter a way to send its key in the Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header. The key is a secret, so it comes from the environment, not from the seeds.
2. Why
On 2026-11-10 the SWESTR API answered this host with 403 and "Out of call volume quota. Quota will be replenished in 5.01:45:50.", with Retry-After: 438358. A call with the old user agent gave the same answer, so the agent did not cause it. The adapter of this environment polled once an hour. That is 24 calls a day, and the Riksbank FAQ gives 5 calls a minute and 1,000 a day to a caller without a key. The cause of a quota of several days is not known. The development of the adapter on 2026-11-10 also made calls, so a weekly limit is a guess. A registered key gives 200 calls a minute and 30,000 a week.
Until the quota is replenished, the riksbank-swestr feed stores no new SWESTR fixing. The fixings stored before stay.
3. References
- Riksbank API FAQ, which states the limits with and without a key.
- Riksbank API portal, where an account and its key are registered.
- Add the Riksbank adapter, which reads SWESTR without a key.
4. See also
- Add the RBA adapter, which found the quota when it checked the new user agent against each publisher.