An extensible cryptocurrency price notification service
Create a virtual environment. Install requirements.
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Notification service comes courtesy of IFTTT. Go to their site and create an account.
- Events triggered by our Python app which will consume the data from the Coinmarketcap API.
- You'll also need to install their mobile app if you wish to get notifications from your python app
- Next, you'll create an IFTTT applet
- Choose the “webhooks” service and select the “Receive a web request” trigger
- Name the event bitcoin_price_emergency
- For the action select the “Notifications” service and select the “Send a rich notification from the IFTTT app” action
- Give it a title, like “Bitcoin price emergency!”
- Set the message to Bitcoin price is at ${{Value1}}. Buy or sell now!
- Optionally you could add a Link URL to the Coinmarketcap Bitcoin page: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/
- Create the action and finish setting up the applet