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Adds the UniRate currency-exchange integration to the Haystack integrations index.

haystack-unirate provides three Haystack 2.x @component building blocks for working with live currency data in pipelines:

  • UniRateExchangeRate — latest exchange rate for a currency pair (or all targets for a base).
  • UniRateConverter — convert a monetary amount between two currencies.
  • UniRateCurrencies — list every supported currency code.

Each component supports to_dict / from_dict serialization and uses Haystack Secret for API-key handling. Free-tier endpoints (rates, conversion, currency listings) work out of the box; historical data is Pro-gated.

This PR adds integrations/unirate.md (front-matter + docs) and logos/unirate.png.

Adds the UniRate currency-exchange integration (haystack-unirate) —
three Haystack 2.x components for FX rate lookups, currency conversion,
and currency listings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Thank you, @rob-browncc Could you please help me understand if the integration comes from an actual need of any user? I would like to know if that's going to be helpful for a broader audience.

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Thanks for taking a look, @kacperlukawski — fair question.

Honestly, I built this to fill a gap rather than in response to a specific user ticket: Haystack doesn't currently have a component for live currency/exchange-rate data. The use case is pipelines and agents that need up-to-date FX — e.g. a finance/e-commerce RAG assistant answering "what's this price in EUR today?", or an agent tool that converts amounts and pulls VAT rates as part of a larger workflow. It's three small @components (exchange rate, convert, list currencies) over a thin client, so it slots into a pipeline the same way other data-fetching components do.

I don't want to overstate demand — I can't point you to a pile of users asking for it specifically. If a standalone FX integration feels too niche for the directory, I'm happy to adjust the framing/scope, or you're equally welcome to pass on it. No hard feelings either way — just thought it might be a useful building block for the finance-adjacent folks in the community.

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