/btcl

Follow BitCoin exchange rates from your terminal

Primary LanguageRubyMIT LicenseMIT

btcl

Follow BitCoin exchange rates from your terminal.

btcl is a command-line interface for retrieving BitCoin prices from your terminal instantly. You may choose to receive the top market exchange rate or retrieve a single price quote with the exchange symbol from bitcoincharts.

$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0

Install

Install via rubygems

$ gem install btcl

Install via Docker

$ docker build -t btcl github.com/jawerty/btcl
$ docker run btcl

Usage

Retrieve the prices from the top exchanges.

$ btcl

Main Screenshot

Quickly retrieve the ask price from a single exchange. The first argument is the symbol used on bitcoincharts.com (see all market symbols at bitcoincharts.com/markets/).

$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0

Small Screenshot

Get more prices.

$ btcl mtgoxUSD --verbose

or

$ btcl mtgoxUSD -v

Alt text

Contact

If you would like to contact me for further information on the project, see the info below.

Email: jawerty210@gmail.com

Github: @jawerty

Twitter: @jawerty

Blog: http://jawerty.github.io