Coinhawk is a project that retrieves and graphs the crypto markets of different exchanges. It connects to the exchanges through their API and stores the latest sale price and stores them in a database. It then graphs them using Highcharts. It will list all markets on single page to easily make comparisons and find rising/falling markets. The two markets currently supported are Cryptsy and MintPal.
I built the project in order to learn more about crypto currencies and Yii2.
The dev environment is easy to get running with Vagrant and Ansible. It is built with Yii2 and runs on Debian 7, Nginx and MariaDB.
First, clone the project to a directory on your system:
git@github.com:doublehops/coinhawk.git coinhawk
If you want to use the supplied virtual machine option you will need to install Vagrant and Ansible and follow these steps:
- Once installed, type vagrant up. This will take some time.
- Type vagrant ssh to ssh into the vm and change to path /var/www. cd /var/www
- Run composer install to install Yii and the project's dependencies.
- Run ./yii migrate/up to install the database tables.
- Create assets folder and set permissions: mkdir web/assets && chmod 777 web/assets
- Add 192.168.33.12 coinhawk to your hosts file: /etc/hosts for Mac/Linux
- Run this script to import the data: /var/www/coinhawk.net/yii market/fetch-data
- Run this script to send notifications on new markets: /var/www/coinhawk.net/yii run-scheduled-tasks/send-notifications
- Point your browser to http://coinhawk/
Note: The two scripts should be added as cronjobs if you want them to auto update.
Unfortunately each feed from Cryptsy is now over 15MB in size so PHP memory and bandwidth can be issues here. Mintpal no longer exists. However it is quite straight forward to create a new component with Coinhawk for another exchange.