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Client written in Python3 for CoinDesk API service.
These instructions will get you a copy of the project on your local system.
CoinDesk API client uses a number of open source projects to work properly:
And of course CoinDesk API client itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.
Intall the package from Pypi using the command:
pip install -U coindesk
A series of simple examples:
Get currentprice price for Bitcoin in json format
from coindesk.client import CoindeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('currentprice')
response = api_client.get()
Get currentprice price for Bitcoin in other currency than USD
from coindesk.client import CoindeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('currentprice', {'currency': 'EUR'})
response = api_client.get()
Get historical price for Bitcoin in json format
from coindesk.client import CoindeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('historical')
response = api_client.get()
Get historical price for Bitcoin providing optional parameters
from coindesk.client import CoinDeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('historical', {'currency': 'EUR', 'for': 'yesterday'})
response = api_client.get()
Make a request with custom parameters either for currentprice or historical
from coindesk.client import CoinDeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('currentprice', retries=5, redirects=False, timeout=10)
response = api_client.get()
Get raw http response either for currentprice or historical
from coindesk.client import CoinDeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient.start('currentprice')
response = api_client.get(raw=True)
Get supported currencies to fetch Bitcoin price in
from coindesk.client import CoindeskAPIClient
api_client = CoindeskAPIClient()
supported_currencies = api_client.get_supported_currencies()
Full documentation for CoinDesk API is available at https://www.coindesk.com/api/.
MIT
Free Software. Hell Yeah!
FAQs
Bitcoin current and historical price
We found that coindesk 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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