mayomi1 / dcrextdata

dcrextdata

dcrextdata is a standalone program for collecting additional info about the decred cryptocurrency like ticker and orderbook data various exchnages. 

Requirements

• Go 1.11
• Postgresql

Building

• Install Go

• Verify Go installation:

  go env GOROOT GOPATH
  

• Ensure $GOPATH/bin is on your $PATH.

• Clone the dcrextdata repository. It is conventional to put it under GOPATH, but this is no longer necessary with go module.

  git clone https://github.com/raedahgroup/dcrextdata $GOPATH/src/github.com/raedahgroup/dcrextdata

• If building inside GOPATH it is nessasary to set GO111MODULE=ON before building otherwise just build.

• go build, run in the dcrextdata repo, builds the executabe dcrextdata

Configuring dcrextdata

dcrextdata can be configured via command-line options or a config file located in the same diretcory as the executable. Start with the sample config file:

cp sample-dcrextdata.conf dcrextdata.conf

Then edit dcrextdata.conf with your postgres settings. See the output of dcrextdata --help for a list of all options and their default values.

Running dcrextdata

Simply run dcrextdata with your flags in the same directory as it's config file and you're good to go. You can perform a reset by running with the -R or --reset flag.

Quick start for Postgresql

If you have a new postgresql install and you want a quick setup for dcrextdata, you can start postgresql command-line client with sudo -u postgres psql or you could su into the postgres user and run psql then execute the following sql statements to create a user and database:

    CREATE USER {username} WITH PASSWORD '{password}' CREATEDB;
    CREATE DATABASE {databasename} OWNER {user};