UniRate Dev Container Features

Dev Container Features maintained by the UniRate team.

Features

Feature	Description
unirate-cli	Installs the unirate CLI — currency exchange rates, conversion, and VAT lookups from the UniRate API.

Usage

Reference a feature in your .devcontainer/devcontainer.json:

{
    "image": "mcr.microsoft.com/devcontainers/base:ubuntu",
    "features": {
        "ghcr.io/unirate-api/devcontainer-features/unirate-cli:1": {}
    }
}

Pin a specific CLI version with the version option:

{
    "features": {
        "ghcr.io/unirate-api/devcontainer-features/unirate-cli:1": {
            "version": "0.1.0"
        }
    }
}

Then, inside the container:

export UNIRATE_API_KEY="your-api-key"   # free key at https://unirateapi.com
unirate convert 100 USD EUR
unirate rate USD JPY
unirate vat FR

How it installs (supply-chain notes)

unirate-cli does not pull an npm/pip/other dependency tree. Its install.sh:

1. Downloads the prebuilt, statically-linked release archive for the container's OS/arch from the official UniRate-API/unirate-cli GitHub releases.
2. Downloads that release's checksums.txt and verifies the archive's SHA-256 before extracting anything. A mismatch aborts the install.
3. Installs the single unirate binary to /usr/local/bin.

The only prerequisites installed (if absent) are curl, tar, ca-certificates, and a SHA-256 tool, via the base image's own package manager.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.