BTCTicker

A Ruby wrapper for the Bitstamp Ticker API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'btc_ticker'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install btc_ticker

Usage

require 'btc_ticker'

#Get current BTC ticker (Hash object) by currency pair (Only :btc_usd and :btc_eur pairs are supported)
ticker = BTCTicker::Bitstamp::Ticker.get_info(:btc_usd)

#Print a list of the keys
p ticker.keys #=> ["high", "last", "timestamp", "bid", "vwap", "volume", "low", "ask", "open"]

current_btc_usd_price = ticker["last"]

Bitstamp Ticker API response

Attribute	Description
last	Last BTC price.
high	Last 24 hours price high.
low	Last 24 hours price low.
vwap	Last 24 hours volume weighted average price.
volume	Last 24 hours volume.
bid	Highest buy order.
ask	Lowest sell order.
timestamp	Unix timestamp date and time.
open	First price of the day.

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License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.