CoinMarketCap Scraper With MongoDB

A simple scraper for exchanges' information on CoinMarketCap.com. All data can be saved into a remote MongoDB. For example,

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The installation shell script can be found in this repo.

How-to

• Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/0xboz/coinmarketcap_scraper.git
cd coinmarketcap_scraper

• Create virtual environment (optional but recommended)

python3 -m venv venv

• Activate virtual environment (optional but recommended)

source venv/source/activate

• Install required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

• Create a config.ini in the root directory

username = USERNAME
password = PASSWORD
ip = SERVER_IP
database_name = crypto
collection_name = exchanges

• Run

python exchanges.py

• Update the database
  Re-run the program whenever you would like to update the database.