paralelo.bo API

Base URL

https://paralelo.bo/api/v1

Authentication

No key or registration required.

Rate limit

No published limit. The underlying aggregate refreshes about once a minute, so polling faster gains nothing.

Pricing

Free.

CORS

Enabled — callable directly from browser JavaScript

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 21 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://paralelo.bo/api/v1/rate'

const res = await fetch("https://paralelo.bo/api/v1/rate");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://paralelo.bo/api/v1/rate", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "timestamp": "2026-08-21T07:41:10.483Z",
  "buy": 12.23,
  "sell": 11.57,
  "median": 11.9,
  "spreadPct": -5.4089,
  "sourceCount": 2,
  "methodologyVersion": "ec2-backend"
}

timestampstring

ISO 8601 UTC time the snapshot was computed.

buy / sellnumber

Aggregated buy and sell quotes in bolivianos per US dollar.

mediannumber

Median across the contributing sources — more robust to an outlier quote than a mean.

spreadPctnumber

Percentage gap between the buy and sell sides; can be negative depending on source composition.

sourceCountinteger

How many sources fed this snapshot. A low count means a weak signal.

methodologyVersionstring

Identifier for the aggregation method, so you can detect when it changes.

• Show the parallel-market rate alongside Bolivia's official peg
• Log the parallel rate over time for a research dataset
• Fetch a bare number from the `.txt` endpoint inside a shell script
• Gate a display on `sourceCount` so thin snapshots are labelled as such

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