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Bitcoin => Project Development => Topic started by: thefalleng2 on December 19, 2015, 01:28:37 AM

Title: Price displaying website like Coinmarketcap
Post by: thefalleng2 on December 19, 2015, 01:28:37 AM

I am looking to make a website to show the price of different altcoins like Coinmarketcap. I looked around and it seems to be all about modifying the api to set it up according to my needs.

I am wondering if there is any tutorial to learn how to fetch coins prices from sources. Also is there any easier way to do this? I am looking forward to everyone's replies :)

Title: Re: Price displaying website like Coinmarketcap
Post by: tarsua on December 19, 2015, 01:32:59 AM

yes there is an easier way to do it, use iframes, it isnt pretty but it gets the job done

Title: Re: Price displaying website like Coinmarketcap
Post by: thefalleng2 on December 19, 2015, 01:50:51 AM

Quote from: tarsua on December 19, 2015, 01:32:59 AM

yes there is an easier way to do it, use iframes, it isnt pretty but it gets the job done

Thanks for that info. It's not precisely what I am looking for but something quick.

Title: Re: Price displaying website like Coinmarketcap
Post by: music8mycomputer on December 19, 2015, 02:20:39 AM

It's all about the endpoint, for example: https://api.coinbase.com/v1/prices/spot_rate?currency=USD

It spits out json encoded data and you have to decode it.

Code:

<?php
$raw_coinbase_price_now = file_get_contents('https://api.coinbase.com/v1/prices/spot_rate?currency=USD');
	
	$json = json_decode($raw_coinbase_price_now);
	$coinbase_price = $json->amount;
	$coinbase = number_format($coinbase_price, 2);
	echo $coinbase;
?>