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Hey everyone,

I've created a nice simple price ticker for Bitcoin that sits in the OSX menu bar.

https://i.imgur.com/RZrNQHh.png

Download: https://github.com/dgarrett/BTCPrice/raw/master/releases/BTCPrice_1_2.zip

Source: https://github.com/dgarrett/BTCPrice

It gets its data from Mt.Gox and allows for its automatic update interval to be set.
If you want to manually update its data, just click it. The data will be refreshed whenever the menu is opened.
You can also select which piece of data you want to be displayed in your menu bar.

Also, as a student I'd greatly appreciate tips if you find BTCPrice useful :) : 1Price4EGW8R59auccATvEwCFAhXYBML6V

And please let me know if you like it or have any suggestions.

Version 1.2:

• Can now select any of 8 currencies (Thanks to oleganza (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=78297) - 1TipsuQ7CSqfQsjA9KU5jarSB1AnrVLLo )
• Configurable font size
• Using a better Mt.Gox data feed (Also thanks to oleganza (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=78297))

Version 1.1:

• Can configure number of decimals to display (currently truncates instead of rounding)
• Can configure display label

Version 1.0:

• Initial release

Very nice!!! Something I'd find very useful indeed.

I'd happily donate a few $$$ but have a few small requests. One is a smaller font size, I want it as unobtrusive as my menumeters. Also I'm only interested in seeing 2 decimal places. The rest is a waste of space on my already packed menu bar.

Maybe if the font sized is fixed, then some way of customising the display so i can just have the number?

Tipped.

I like it, though it feels like there's a few too many decimals. Perhaps truncate it to 3 DPS?
https://i.imgur.com/Kj4y8GH.png

Also, maybe change "Last:" to be the default.

Perhaps the option of not showing "Last/High/Low/etc" next to the price, and simply have the bitcoin logo? (Since we know what price to show as we select it)

looks like we both said the same thing :P

Get on it dgarrett, and I'll happily send you enough for a coffee and a pack of chips :)

Nice app. Tipped.

Thanks for the suggestions and donations (good motivation for adding more features ;) ).

My menu bar is plenty crowded already, so I agree on the size issue. I'll work on a way to configure the number of decimals. Configurable font size isn't quite as straightforward, so I'm not sure when that'll happen.

I'll also add an option to change what the displayed label is. And I'll add the option to show an arrow if the price has gone up or down since the last update.

Nice work, changing the font size won't matter so much if we can customise the number of decimal places and the display label :). I wouldn't mind a label that simply says: ฿31.32

Can I ask what is Avg and VWAP for?
btw nice app thx Tipped

Avg is the daily average price.

VWAP is the volume-weighted average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume-weighted_average_price

And thanks for the tip.

I made a bit of an update.

You can now configure how many decimal points to show.
For now, I'm just truncating (rounding down) the number instead of rounding normally. I figure people might prefer this so they can see when price milestones are actually passed. So you can set it to 0 decimals and see when each new dollar point is actually reached, instead of just when it gets rounded to the next dollar.

You can also disable the label next to the price, or change it to the ฿ symbol.

downloaded and donated!  nice work

finally! thanks!

+1 for ability to change the font size

Nice!

Legendary. Good work. ฿0.25 sent  :)

Thanks for these improvements dude, much nicer.

Tipped again :)

On the note of "if price has gone up or down since the last update" - I personally don't see the point of this (comparing updates to a single other) since someone selling BTC0.01 will change the "trend". If other's support the idea, then by all means go ahead, but I would find it more useful if it compared the behaviour of the market over an hour or more, which will start tapping into the actual trends of the market. Not sure how best to implement this in order to accurately reflect the 'trend', but it is food for thought, at least.

Great idea, thanks man!

Thanks for the ticker! I've just added support for more currencies (I check prices in EUR)

Pull from here: https://github.com/oleganza/BTCPrice

Awesome. I actually just found that other Mt.Gox API, but you got to it before me. I'll check out the commit and get it merged soon. :)

Exactly what I was looking for, tipped and tweeted.

Gr8 work !! I really like this.

I would like it even more if it had the following feature:

Aside the exchange rate it displays totals.

So for example you own 1000 bitcoins, you can enter this amount somewhere in the settings, now say the course is 34.170, it would (optionally) display like this:

BTC 34,17 - USD 34.170

Obviously it would be possible to show in another currency.

I'll transfer 0.25 bitcoin for this feature.

or maybe better shorter:

BTC 34.17 - $ 34170

and perhaps 1000 bitcoins is a bad example because its very obvious, but if you own a amount of bitoins of for example 65, then it always takes some time to calculate the total amount you posses in your own currency, so i would consider that a very nice feature.

EDIT:
bw, i just realized that it is probably not a good idea to show in your bar, in case someone looks over your shoulder and sees, therefore perhaps it is better as an item in the menu (and/or a keyboard shortcut).

https://blockchain.info/address/1TBZYXjrGjXCEN1SprpF66Jzy5uN3GiLS (replace with your own address)
Change the dropdown at the bottom to USD, look at final balance.

I'd like to keep this application fairly simple, and that feature might be going beyond the purpose of a price ticker. I'll let you know if I add it in though.

mm maybe i have to learn objective-c and fork your repository then .... seems not trivial to pick up (when reading through your code)...

i saw the solution on blockchain, but its not convenient enough for me ...

Perhaps Oleganza like this feature enough to get his hands dirty?   :P

I use btcReport app on iPhone, it allows to see up to date value of your coins in other currency (on a secondary screen)

i'll check it out, thanks Oleganza!!

awesome tip!! i am really happy with that app. Thanks Oleganza!!  8)

Damn nice app! Muchos gracias!  ;D

How do you install it? In this matter, I have for the last 20 years been a n00b ;)

thanks for the program,

send you some btc!

I've posted a new update, v1.2.

This one has some work done by oleganza (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=78297), including the ability to switch between reference currencies. I believe this data is still based on Mt.Gox USD and just converted to other currencies, but I'm not sure since the data comes directly from Mt.Gox.

I've also added configurable font size, in case you want it to take up less of your menu bar or if you want to make it bigger and more visible. :)

Darn. I just purchased this (https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/bittrends/id601886711?mt=12) app the other day on the Mac App Store that accomplishes the same thing. Wish I had seen this sooner!

Thanks for open-sourcing it anyhow :)

Love it donation sent, would a Litecoin one from btc-e (https://btc-e.com/exchange/ltc_btchttps://btc-e.com/exchange/ltc_btc) API be possible with price shown in Bitcoins or $ option, many thanks!

Edit: & when the price refreshes if it could flash green or red for + or - would be cool (see btc-e's pairs)

Great Software! donated a few btc  ;)

That's nearly 2 btc in donations = $130 approx so far, nice to see support & recognition being given, congrats OP.

https://blockchain.info/address/1Price4EGW8R59auccATvEwCFAhXYBML6V

Yep, thanks for the app! Simple and from now on nicely tucked away in the menubar. Can't support you yet, as there's too much 0's (left and right of the decimal point) but one day I will!  ;D

Yeah. Thanks everyone. It's definitely encouraging to see the support the community gives to people who make stuff. :)

(I'm not sure about Litecoin, and I've been a little busy recently. But I'll consider it.)

Nice work I want to share with you a project that also supports wallets, although manually, put you can keep a table of wallet btc amounts and their corresponding value in USD. I didn't make it just took the best parts of the later BitTicker projects and put them together. So if you want a source without the totals go to the link below at github.

Pre-Built Binary of BitTicker with wallet calculations and total of those calculations.

Posted version here has totals too of those values entered.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/t8l2xc

No Totals, only difference, still the table and picture explains it all.
github.com/trishume/BitTicker

The mtgox url in source of the repo above needs to be changed to the new style: http://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php - that was one of the reasons I posted the pre-built so people could try the app.

You can get the pretty much same thing at - Nice app but ugly as sin table. I wish I knew a coder who could make this nice, I would pay for that so if you have the skill let's make it happen and share with everyone!

https://a248.e.akamai.net/camo.github.com/098d49d5376d76164921684f9c8879a583eb3bdf/687474703a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f32567848522e706e67


Sorry to post it here but someone mentioned it above and I thought others should know about the new features.

Dev, if your interested in doing some freelance work let me know. I have a nice idea for a bitcoin menubar app with mockups and everything that I would like to get paid and share open source. Cheers! Nice app! I am very impressed!

Sorry to steal thunder, just want to let others know that I need good coders, hopefully dgarrett has the time but if not anyone who is familiar with coding os x apps please let me know. Looking for designer and coder although I have a mockup but not really something useful other than an idea. All open source of course. Never make money off a btc project, hopefully others might pitch in and donate towards the cause if interested so let me know if you fit the bill any way shape or form and let's make the best menubar app ever!!

to @string (BitTicker)
How can I change currency symbol ¢ to $? thx
http://cl.ly/NnJE/BitTicker.png

Download the source, go into the BitTicker Folder and find

If you would rather show a different currency and have it be accurate you need to change what info is taken from mtgox.

Folder/File
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This is not my project, I just wanted to share it with you all. I had financed the addition of wallet feature for my own use. If others who can code and want to make some money have time I have a bitcoin related app I want to get made.

If I find the time I will help you out and upload a build. But for now I am slammed. The above info should get you good to go though and working.

Credit where its due!

I'd definitely like to see feature updates LTC and other suggestions are good ideas (wallet balances). As this so far has earned you some decent $$$ you should consider scheduling some regular dev time to this!

Awesome project! I really liked it!

I liked it so much that I wanted to expand on it. I've taken the liberty to fork your Github repository and add multiple exchange support :) I've left comments in the code to make it easy to add additional exchanges - I've added five of the larger ones (see below).

I've also added a bit where you can toggle whether or not trailing zeros should be displayed. This allows for a more consistent display, even when the price fluctuates to round integers.

http://oi48.tinypic.com/20hkgv7.jpghttp://oi47.tinypic.com/skujo3.jpg

I've sent you a pull request on Github to take the edits into the master branch (here (https://github.com/dgarrett/BTCPrice/pulls)).

After testing the additions thoroughly (and resolving the issue that not all marketplaces have a uniformity of currency support) I feel it is ready for release. Perhaps this could be a candidate for release 1.3! :)

EDIT: You can find a pre-compiled .app in my branch as well: Click here to download (https://github.com/Yoast/BTCPrice/raw/master/releases/BTCPrice-candidate_1_2b.zip). I took the liberty of assigning it version number 1.2b.


Tips are always appreciated at 1JoostYT2rx3ZyNh58Fd4Q71dZ65aoWUiD

Great app!
Thanks, loving it!

I know that you'd like to keep it as a simple price ticker, but a couple of basic alarms one could set on it à la http://www.bitcoin-tools.de/# would make it perfect imo, also is there a way for it to always open on comp start up - I find that I have to go to Apps & open it each time, but I'm geek lvl 0 so may have missed something on that.

http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/startupitem.htm (http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/startupitem.htm)
Finder>System Preferences>User & Groups>Login Items>drag-and-drop app inside the window and select the checkbox

Many Thanks!

Please make it show LTC as well :)

this thread is getting confusing, everyone should create their own thread if you ask me

but this is a Bit Ticker question, I installed it and want to add my own BTC address for monitoring, but I can't copy+paste, so how do i add my own watch address?

Would be awesome if you could add BitCoin-24.com API to BTCPrice :)

API:

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@Joost: Your version is AWESOME!

Glad you found my addition useful :)

For those of you unable to compile it from source, I figured I might as well upload a release candidate (as long as it hasn't been pulled into the main release, anyway). Do note that it might be a bit buggy with Bitcoin Central at the moment, as that market is currencly frozen.

You can download it from my branch here (https://github.com/Yoast/BTCPrice/raw/master/releases/BTCPrice-candidate_1_2b.zip)

tipped! thanks!

+1. This should be easy as you have a feed from btc-e.com already.

+1 as well. Soon the LTC feeds from Gox will go live too hopefully.

I'm back on a PC again for a while and really miss this OSX ticker, would it be possible to make one or adapt it to work with Win 7 please, failing that or until then can anyone recommend a Win 7 ticker that is guaranteed to be trustworthy, many thanks.

Has this project been updated recently?

*free bump*

I've been running the same version for months and still seems to be working great.

+1 awesome app. I would love to see a litecoin price next to the bitcoin price.

I'd like to see more than just one exchanges price listed.

There is a very nice litecoin ticker.
[OSX] Multi-currency BTC & LTC Ticker for OS X's Menu Bar (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=275172.new#new)

Thanks, I've now switched over.

Did anybody else notice that if you type osx menubar into google that htis is the second result?

Scary

ymmv, #20 for me

MacWallet+Ticker for Mac OS X
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=307200.0

Hive Wallet for Mac OS X
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=304060.0;all

Guys let's get this thread moving again. :-)

Joost's patch is pretty nice but it crashes sometimes when switching exchanges, and some exchanges show "0 BTC". dgarret or Joost, do you think you could take a look at that? BTCPrice actually works on older machines, which is a big plus.

New Bitcoin ticker for Mac OS X 10.7 or later
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitcoin-ticker-to-the-moon!/id731453251?mt=12

Is it just me or did this stop working?

Install the App Store version, it's working.

I don't find this app in the App Store, do you have a link?

seems to be working again.  must be a Mt.Gox issue

Yeah I'm getting some problems too... strange.

Love this app btw.

it's flakey.  now it's not working again.  but it's not BTCPrice's problem.  it's an issue with Mt. Gox.  I looked at the code and it uses this url for its data: https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker and when I call it by hand I get diddley back.  not sure what's up with Mt. Gox but I do see it's using the v1 api call and should probably be upgraded to use v2.  v2 seems to work whereas v1 doesn't

Maybe they've depreciated the v1 api. Can someone update the code?

Bitcoin Trader for OSX v0.1
https://twitter.com/0dayZh/status/410710044477370368/photo/1 (https://twitter.com/0dayZh/status/410710044477370368/photo/1)
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbMim_yCQAA85XJ.png

Yeah let's get this "classic version" working again. It's still our favorite of all the tickers we've tried!

Hey W! Yesss, this deffo needs updating now haha.

Geez, no kidding :)

Hive wallet FTW :)

Are there any updates to this app guys? I would love to see it working on Mavericks showing BTC and LTC.

It does work on mavericks.

Free bump. I'm still using this and it works great. Any updates coming?

Likewise.