This repository contains a little script for scrape the number of shares outstanding in Grayscale. The purpose of scrape and save this information is for know how many bitcoins are bought by Grayscale.
The script scrape the needed information from the corresponding website. Then, it saves that info in a CSV file, so you can view it like a calc sheet.
Besides, when the CSV is saved, it is uploaded to a Github repository.
If you don't want to run by yourself this script, you can see the next CSV. It's generated and updated by a Raspberry Pi every day at 3:00 UTC. https://github.com/bofavom/grayscale_bitcoin_shares/blob/master/grayscale_bitcoin.csv
- Python
- Scrapy
- PyGithub
- Install Scrapy and PyGithub.
https://docs.scrapy.org/en/latest/intro/install.html
https://pygithub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#download-and-install - Clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/bofavom/grayscale_bitcoin_shares.git
- If you want to upload and keep updated your CSV in your own Github repository, change your access token and repository name in file grayscale/spiders/github_uploader.py
If not, you can remove the 45th line self.updateGithub() in file grayscale/spiders/grayscale_spider.py - Now, you'll want to run this script periodically. Use crontab for that. An example would be:
crontab -e
0 2 * * * cd /home/user/grayscale_bitcoin_shares && /home/user/.local/bin/scrapy crawl grayscale