Tim Molter (who does the XChange library) and I have got the OpenExchangeRates.org exchange rates support working.
This is just in the test code at the moment.As an anti-spam measure, OpenExchangeRates.org requires people to sign up to a free account.
To accomodate this, the MultiBit user signs up as follows:
1) Initially they choose to use OpenExchangeRates as one of their exchanges in Preferences:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmultibit.org%2FpostImages%2FOpenExchangeRates1.png&t=665&c=fiHDcyln6t_H6g)
There is a little reminder in
green text to sign up.
2) They press the "Get App ID" button which opens their browser to the page:
https://openexchangerates.org/signup/free?r=multibit3) There they sign up for a free OpenExchangeRates.org account. When they do, they are given an "App ID" which is a 32 character identifier. They then cut-and-paste it into the field labeled "OpenExchangeRates App ID" as below:
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmultibit.org%2FpostImages%2FOpenExchangeRates2.png&t=665&c=7e1xei8ibyg3dg)
You only have to do this once as it gets stored in your user preferences.
You can then choose any of the 150+ rates shown in the top post.