USD / INR currency rate historical data download

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The Indian Rupee (INR) is the official currency of India. From Quandl you can download free USD/INR historical data back until 18 October 1994.

Steps for downloading USD / INR market data

It may happen that you meet Quandl's tutorial first (see below). Press "Skip"! (Tutorial introduces all features of Quandl – a lot of them is not required for getting data.)


Quandl.com's tutorial. You can skip it

Step2: If everything is OK, you should see something similar to the picture below. Press "Download". (By using default settings you will download EOD USD / INR data from the broadest date range. If this is not suitable for you, you can modify settings.)

USD / INR market data page on Quandl.com


Step3: Choose a format for downloading USD / INR data from the next window.
Hint: ".csv" and ."xls" formats are OK in most cases.
Press "Download Data" to download data to your computer.
Selecting file format for historical data

Possible problems

Number of downloads per day is limited to 50 if you are not a registered user of Quandl.com.
So if you see an error message related to this when downloading USD / INR historical data, you should either register or wait another day.

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