It seems that every time MtGox gets hit hard, so do most other Bitcoin related sites, making it hard to monitor the bitcoin exchange world. But the website going down doesn't always mean the API is down, so I quickly pulled together this simple GUI ticker in python:
https://bitbucket.org/nitrous/simple-mtgox-ticker/overviewIt isn't my best code, but it works and gives you the current bid and ask price, as well as current lag. It tries to poll the server every 2 seconds, and if there's an error it won't lose the current information. Also, if you want help developing with the MtGox API, take a look at api.py - I'm developing a more advanced library for easy python access to MtGox, but in the meantime I stripped it down to the bare essentials with this project, so it should be helpful in conjunction with my v2 API documentation to see how accessing the API works.
To start, just run
- If you want a different currency, just change it in ticker.pyw
- Make sure you have python and Tkinter installed
- You don't need an API key or secret to use this service
Note that under high load, the API is not always available, but when it is, you should at least be able to get the basic information, hope this helps
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