Get Bitcoin Price In Real Time Using Python – randerson112358

The first thing that I like to do before writing logic in my code is to put a description of what the program is about.

#Description: Get the current price of Bitcoin

Next, I will import the request library.

#Import the requests library
import requests

Now let’s store the URL of the ticker, to get the .json file of the cryptocurrencies. This link is the API from coinmarket.com.

TICKER_API_URL = 'https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/'

Let’s create a function to get the latest crypto currency price for a specific ‘crypto’ like Bitcoin, Litecoin or Ethereum.

def get_latest_crypto_price(crypto):
response = requests.get(TICKER_API_URL+crypto)
response_json = response.json()
return float(response_json[0]['price_usd'])
						
					

Test the function to see if it returns the current price of the crypto currency.

get_latest_crypto_price('bitcoin')

def main():
last_price = -1
						
					
while True:
crypto = 'bitcoin'
price = get_latest_crypto_price(crypto)
if price != last_price:
print('Bitcoin price: ',price)
last_price = price

main()