How to get price information of coins with same symbol

[cxd1995]

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There are many coins with the same ticker symbol. For example, UNUS SED LEO and LEOcoin use the same ticker symbol LEO; Cosmos and Atomic Coin use the same ticker symbol ATOM; CyberMiles and Comet use the same ticker symbol CMT. The circumstance is common for coins.

So I am wondering how to get the price information of these coins that have the same symbol?

[guptarohit]

@cxd1995 Thanks for pointing out this case 👍

Currently, the only way I see to distinguish the coin with the same coin-code is by explicitly providing its coinmarketcap-id to fetch data. For example, Atomic Coin have cmc-id atomic-wallet-coin and Cosmos have cmc-id cosmos.
Let me know if you find any other solution. You can always send a PR :)
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[cxd1995]

Will the scraper still works if the input is the coinmarketcap-id? It seems that the input of the scraper could only be the ticker symbol such as ETH, BTC.

When I try to use the coinmarketcap-id such as atomic-wallet-coin and cosmos, the returned result is
"This coin code is unavailable on "coinmarketcap.com"

[guptarohit]

No, it doesn't accept coinmarketcap-id as input currently, will need make changes for that.

[ttozatto]

I forked the project and added an id_number parameter, so you can pass instead of symbol.

You can check the id here https://web-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/map?symbol=ATOM

You can clone the repository from here https://github.com/ttozatto/cryptoCMD.git