cryptoCMD: cryptoCurrency Market Data
Cryptocurrency historical market price data scraper written in Python.
Installation
$ pip install cryptocmd
to install from the latest source use following command
$ pip install git+git://github.com/guptarohit/cryptoCMD.git
Usage
CoinMarketCap Scraper
Following methods are available to get data in multiple formats from https://coinmarketcap.com
To get all time historical data of a cryptocurrency
from cryptocmd import CmcScraper
# initialise scraper without passing time interval
scraper = CmcScraper('XRP')
# data as list of list in a variable
headers, data = scraper.get_data()
# export the data as csv file, you can also pass optional name parameter
scraper.export_csv('xrp_all_time.csv')
# Pandas dataFrame for the same data
df = scraper.get_dataframe()
To get data of a cryptocurrency for some days
from cryptocmd import CmcScraper
# initialise scraper
scraper = CmcScraper('XRP', '15-10-2017', '25-10-2017')
# get data as list of list
headers, data = scraper.get_data()
# export the data to csv
scraper.export_csv()
# get dataframe for the data
df = scraper.get_dataframe()
Following are the columns of the data
Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, Market Cap
Acknowledgements
The data is being scrapped from coinmarketcap
Contributing
Feel free to make a pull request!