/coinmarketcap-scraper

A scraper for CoinMarketCap. It returns the most important data about any cryptocurrency

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coinmarketcap-scraper

A scraper for CoinMarketCap. It returns the most important data about any cryptocurrency listed.

The scraper is still in development. Future plans include the creation of a RESTful API to query the price of crypto assets.

usage

cd into the cloned directory and install the requirements in this way:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

With the requirements installed, run on your terminal:

python3 scraper.py [NAME CRYPTOCURRENCY]

example

python3 scraper.py bitcoin

this will print out:

bitcoin
   price:                         61432.3433 
   market cap:                    1,158,894,617,469 
   fully diluted mcap:            1,290,079,209,174 
   volume:                        32,081,608,518 
   volume-market cap ratio:       0.02768 
   circulating supply:            18,864,568.00