This is a small command line tool that gives you the price of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. You can use it for every currency as long as coinbase supports it
# For your user
pip install bitcoin-cli
# Globally
sudo pip install bitcoin-cli
The default currency is GBP, so by just running bitcoin you will see the price in GBP
If you wish to use another currency, use:
bitcoin USD # US Dollars
bitcoin EUR # Euros
bitcoin AUD # Australian Dollars
# etc.
It will return an output like this:
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Current Bitcoin Price in GBP:
£34,557.00
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Price Change over 24 Hours:
Down 11.71%
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Date & Time (BST):
18:55:31, Thursday 13 May 2021
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Source:
Coin Gecko API (coingecko.com)
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Bitcoin command line tool that tells you current prices
We found that bitcoin-cli demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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