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Title: Fetching Bitcoin Price
Post by: raybucks on October 09, 2023, 09:08:20 AM

Could you provide a Python code snippet that illustrates how to fetch the current Bitcoin price from a popular cryptocurrency API, parse the response, and display it in a user-friendly format within a Python application?

Title: Re: Fetching Bitcoin Price
Post by: bitmover on October 09, 2023, 11:05:31 AM

Quote from: raybucks on October 09, 2023, 09:08:20 AM

You get the price from binance here

Api
https://api.binance.com/api/v3/avgPrice?symbol=BTCUSDT
Response

Code:

{"mins":5,"price":"27533.26924995"}

This is code to print the response

Code:

import requests

url = "https://api.binance.com/api/v3/avgPrice?symbol=BTCUSDT"
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
pricebtc = data["price"]
print(pricebtc)

Title: Re: Fetching Bitcoin Price
Post by: seek3r on October 10, 2023, 12:22:17 PM

You can also use the the API of Coingecko if you dont want to use a specific exchange.
For fetching the current btc price in USD you can use this url: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd (https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd)

You are good to go with the version of bitmover but here is a version where the API is used from coingecko:

Code:

import requests

def get_bitcoin_price():
    url = "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd"
    response = requests.get(url)
    
    # request check
    if response.status_code == 200:
        data = response.json()
        bitcoin_price = data["bitcoin"]["usd"]
        return bitcoin_price
    else:
        print(f"Error {response.status_code}: Sorry, but unable to fetch current price of Bitcoin from Coingecko.")
        return None

if __name__ == "__main__":
    price = get_bitcoin_price()
    if price:
        print(f"The current price of Bitcoin is ${price:,.2f} USD.")

Implemented check if the request to the API was successful, otherwise they would be following output:

Code:

Sorry, but unable to fetch current price of Bitcoin from Coingecko.

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