Fetch historic crypto asset data from CoinMarketCap
Project description
Python module to fetch historic crypto asset market data from CoinMarketCap. To reduce traffic extracted data is cached. Furthermore loading the required pages is threaded for performance improvement. Returns Pandas DataFrames with dates as index. As symbols are not unique, the website slug is used.
Documentation
See requirements.txt file for additional dependencies:
Installation
Pip Installation:
$ pip install cryptoassetdata
To install from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/linuskohl/cryptoassetdata $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ python setup.py install
Usage
Sample code to plot Ethereums Open data
import cryptoassetdata import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def available_assets(): # As Symbols are not unique, the website slugs are used. # Get a list of available crypt assets print(cryptoassetdata.get_slugs()) def plot_ethereum_price(): # get_historic_data takes an array containing asset slugs, start and end date of the data. # fill_na specifies if the DataFrame contains only dates the assets were traded, or every date # in the specified date range. A dictionary containing a DataFrame for every is returned. data = cryptoassetdata.get_historic_data(["ethereum"], "01/01/2017", "12/31/2017", fill_na=True) ethereum = data['ethereum'].Open # Get open data from Ethereum ethereum.plot() plt.show() # Display plot
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- Source Code: https://github.com/linuskohl/cryptoassetdata
- Issue Tracker: https://github.com/linuskohl/cryptoassetdata/issues
Changelog
Please see the CHANGES.txt for a list of all changes.
License
The project is licensed under the GPLv3 License. See LICENSE.txt for more details.
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