Crypto Price Tracker

Crypto Price Tracker This application was created for fun and you could just use CoinGecko API directly. Crypto Price Tracker uses CoinGecko API for fetching real-time prices, stores data in SQLite, and exposes an API endpoint to fetch the historical price data. It also provides a Python script to visualize this data using Matplotlib.

✨ Features

Real-time cryptocurrency price tracking
Data stored in SQLite
API endpoint for fetching historical data
Visualization of price data over time

📋 Prerequisites

Python 3.8+
Libraries: FastAPI, Uvicorn, Requests, Matplotlib, SQLite

These requirements can be installed by running pip install -r requirements.txt

📁 Project Structure

Here's a brief intro to the main files in this repository:

main.py: Contains the FastAPI server and the endpoint that fetches data from the SQLite database.
plot.py: Fetches data from the FastAPI server and plots the cryptocurrency price over time.
fetch_price.py: Fetches the current price of the cryptocurrency from the CoinGecko API and inserts it into the SQLite database.

🚀 Getting Started

1. Start the FastAPI server:

uvicorn main:app --reload

2. Run the script that fetches the current price and inserts it into the database:

python fetch_price.py

3. Run the script that fetches data from the FastAPI server and plots it:

python plot.py

You should see a matplotlib window pop up displaying the plot of the cryptocurrency price over time.

🤝 Contributing:

Contributions, issues, and feature requests are welcome!

📝 License:

This project is MIT licensed.

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