An API endpoint made in PHP that was implemented to give, as fast as possible, a JSON response with the economic calendar of events, commonly used in Forex.

It uses the investing.com as data source and using a "web crawling" methodology, revelant data is captured and returned in a more well-structured data model, in this case it will return a JSON.

There is no guarantees about the availability or estability of this API, changes can be done in source page that can result in a crash of the web crawler.

It was concepted to be the most simple as possible to be easy to maintain and use.

A demo available is here (Can be broken, free server can be deleted)

After just clone this repository you can copy that just right away to your PHP server. You can use XAMPP for example for this: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html (Put it in htdocs folder and start PHP server) or any other you prefer.

Just checkout or download this repository and copy this folder to your favorite PHP server. Probably your url in a PHP server with common default configurations, will be available:

http://localhost/economic-calendar-api

And you will see a JSON as response like this:

[
  {
    "economy": "NZD",
    "impact": 1,
    "data": "2018-09-09 22:45:00",
    "name": "Manufacturing Sales Volume (QoQ) (Q2)",
    "actual": "-1.2%",
    "forecast": "",
    "previous": "1.4%"
  },
  ...
]

Tip: If you want, you are able to host it in almost free webhosts to make it online and available on the internet. https://www.freehosting.com/ or https://www.000webhost.com/ and many others.