CoinDesk API client

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Client written in Python3 for CoinDesk API service.

Features

• Get Bitcoin current price
• Get Bitcoin historical price

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project on your local system.

Dependencies

CoinDesk API client uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• aiohttp - Asynchronous HTTP client/server for asyncio and Python
• furl - URL parsing and manipulation made easy
• jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema validation for Python
• [requests] - Python HTTP for Humans

And of course CoinDesk API client itself is open source with a public repository on GitHub.

Installation

Intall the package from Pypi using the command:

pip install -U coindesk

Quick Start

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/.

License

MIT

Free Software. Hell Yeah!

[requests]: https://github.com/requests/requests