Getting crypto quotes for trading.
Using Python you can instantly obtain crypto market quotes for any given coin/currency and easily automate this process without requirement to use a web browser, so you can use a solution
below that will provide necessary information in dataframe or JSON format.
The Python script below will make a HTTP request to "Yahoo Finance" API
- the gold standard for stock-data APIs available for both individual and enterprise-level users. The API use is free and reliable and
wil provide you with cryptocurrency quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction, mortgage and more...
Obtained cryptocurrency results in a form of dataframes or JSON files can be converted to any format suitable for further visualisation and financial data analysis to perform valuable business decisions. The script itself can be easily modified to obtain necessary historical data with any desired crypto coin, interval or time aggregations.
Python code to obtain cryptocurrency quotes:
# pip install yfinance
import yfinance as yf
Cryptocurrency = "BTC-USD"
data = yf.download(tickers={Cryptocurrency}, period = '12h', interval = '60m')
data
Cryptocurrency quotes data output:
Obtaining coins detailed INFO:
Cryptocurrency = "BTC-USD"
stock = yf.Ticker(Cryptocurrency)
# get coins info
stock.info
Coins INFO data output:
{'companyOfficers': [],
'name': 'Bitcoin',
'startDate': 1367107200,
'description': 'Bitcoin (BTC) is a cryptocurrency . Users are able to generate BTC through the process of mining. Bitcoin has a current supply of 19,156,318. The last known price of Bitcoin is 18,942.38937415 USD and is down -2.58 over the last 24 hours. It is currently trading on 9747 active market(s) with $36,190,925,613.00 traded over the last 24 hours. More information can be found at https://bitcoin.org/.',
'maxAge': 1,
'exchange': 'CCC',
'shortName': 'Bitcoin USD',
'exchangeTimezoneName': 'UTC',
'exchangeTimezoneShortName': 'UTC',
'isEsgPopulated': False,
'gmtOffSetMilliseconds': '0',
'quoteType': 'CRYPTOCURRENCY',
'symbol': 'BTC-USD',
'messageBoardId': 'finmb_BTC_CCC',
'market': 'ccc_market',
'previousClose': 18883.615,
'regularMarketOpen': 18883.615,
'twoHundredDayAverage': 29361.217,
'trailingAnnualDividendYield': None,
'payoutRatio': None,
'volume24Hr': 34840641536,
'regularMarketDayHigh': 19092.328,
'navPrice': None,
'averageDailyVolume10Day': 37348488097,
'totalAssets': None,
'regularMarketPreviousClose': 18883.615,
'fiftyDayAverage': 21536.887,
'trailingAnnualDividendRate': None,
'open': 18883.615,
'toCurrency': 'USD=X',
'averageVolume10days': 37348488097,
'expireDate': None,
'yield': None,
'algorithm': None,
'dividendRate': None,
'exDividendDate': None,
'beta': None,
'circulatingSupply': 19156444,
'regularMarketDayLow': 18883.615,
'priceHint': 2,
'currency': 'USD',
'regularMarketVolume': 34840641536,
'lastMarket': 'CoinMarketCap',
'maxSupply': None,
'openInterest': None,
'marketCap': 363256840192,
'volumeAllCurrencies': 34840641536,
'strikePrice': None,
'averageVolume': 29998151554,
'priceToSalesTrailing12Months': None,
'dayLow': 18883.615,
'ask': None,
'ytdReturn': None,
'askSize': None,
'volume': 34840641536,
'fiftyTwoWeekHigh': 68789.625,
'forwardPE': None,
'fromCurrency': 'BTC',
'fiveYearAvgDividendYield': None,
'fiftyTwoWeekLow': 17708.623,
'bid': None,
'tradeable': False,
'dividendYield': None,
'bidSize': None,
'dayHigh': 19092.328,
'coinMarketCapLink': 'https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin',
'regularMarketPrice': 18962.646,
'preMarketPrice': None,
'logo_url': ''}