api.coindesk.com ("EXCHANGE_RATE") is either inaccurate or down recently

[psycodad-bct]

The price ("EXCHANGE RATE") from api.coindesk.com (https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json) hasn't been too accurate for quite some time, but since a few days it seems stuck at $97'376.5 and is not updating anymore.
At the time of posting this issue api.coindesk.com doesn't even resolve anymore:

# dig a api.coindesk.com @1.1.1.1

; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4 <<>> a api.coindesk.com @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63631
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;api.coindesk.com.              IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
api.coindesk.com.       767     IN      SOA     ns-1470.awsdns-55.org. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Feb 12 17:27:03 2025
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 116

[bletchlypark]

Any update on this? I am sure it would be pretty easy to just use another API client. Is this something we can update in the configuration file?

[pointbiz]

It's in this file
app/coins/btc.js

Can someone suggest an alternative API?
Probably will require a small code change if the json file has different variable structures.

[pointbiz]

This is what mempool does and looks like it requires and api key.
https://github.com/mempool/mempool/blob/bc7230a5ef90f6c9afdc41f1076233a511f36855/backend/src/tasks/price-feeds/free-currency-api.ts#L52

[btcme]

Hi， I have provided an alternative service to the Coindesk API. If performance is not a concern, you can request data from this address:

https://coindeskapi.btcme.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json

[pointbiz]

I'll leave this here as a reference for several APIs that BlueWallet uses:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/d1aedf242b2e3258b34d974d10f1edcbecff8a65/android/app/src/main/java/io/bluewallet/bluewallet/MarketAPI.kt