prometheus-coin-scrapper 0.0.2

A simple prometheus scrapper that provide many information about cryptocurrencies values in "realtime"

prometheus coin scraper : A simple metric provider for prometheus

This provide a set of metric for all cryptocurencies listed on https://coin360.com/ and http://coinmarketcap.com/

A lot of values are generated from this scrapper ~10000 values today (27/12/2018)

How to use

Install the pip package

pip install prometheus_coin_scraper

to start the metric server that will serve all metrics you can use the following command

python -m prometheus_coin_scraper [webport]

In-code usage

This module is also usable inside you code and will produce very simple webserver that is by default reachable on http://localhost:8000/ and displays all metrics in a prometheus compatible format

from prometheus_coin_scraper.PrometheusClient import PrometheusClient

PrometheusClient(port=8000)

This class start and run the web server. As it is a blocking call you might need to start it in a Thread

from prometheus_coin_scraper.PrometheusClient import PrometheusClient
from threading import Thread

def func():
    PrometheusClient(port=8000)

Thread(target=func).start()

Information on collected Metrics

• coin_scrapper_fetch_time : The time spent fetching all currencies values

• coin_scrapper_gauge_update_time : The time spent updating all prometheus Gauges values

• coin_scrapper_last_update : Last update time

• coin_scrapper_currencies_number: The current number currencies in the Index

• coin_scrapper_coin_value_usd: Coin value in USD

  There are three labels

  • symbol: The currency symbol (BTC, LTC, XRP, ...)
  • name : The currency name (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, ...)
  • source : The name of the source for the currency value (coin360.com, ...)

• coin_scrapper_coin_value_btc: Coin value in BTC

  There are three labels

  • symbol: The currency symbol (BTC, LTC, XRP, ...)
  • name : The currency name (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, ...)
  • source : The name of the source for the currency value (coin360.com, ...)

• coin_scrapper_coin_last_platform_update Last update of the coin on the source

  There are three labels

  • symbol: The currency symbol (BTC, LTC, XRP, ...)
  • name : The currency name (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, ...)
  • source : The name of the source for the currency value (coin360.com, ...)

• coin_scrapper_coin_changes : Calculated changes of the coin over time (1h, 24h, 7d)

  There are three labels

  • symbol: The currency symbol (BTC, LTC, XRP, ...)
  • name : The currency name (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, ...)
  • source : The name of the source for the currency value (coin360.com, ...)
  • interval: The interval for the calculated value (1h, 24h or 7d)