About The Project

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I created this tutorial to provide an introduction to working with the Coinmarketcap API.

Here's why:

• Coinmarketcap's API offers access to extensive data and up to the minute prices of cryptocurrencies
• It also offers price histories and even graphs. (The tutorial does not cover these)

Built With

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• Python 3.9 preferred

Getting Started

You first need to obtain an api key by signing up with Coinmarketcap API on https://coinmarketcap.com/api/. Then copy the API key as directed.

Prerequisites

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Installation

1. Get a Coinmarketcap API key

2. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/your_username_/Project-Name.git

3. Make a env file for the command line commands to set the environment variable, COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY.

4. Navigate to git project folder.

5. Run the program with the command, python cmtest.py.

Contributing

Scott McMahan for Datascienceexamples.com

License

Free to use and distribute with proper attribution.

Contact

scott@datascienceexamples.com

Project Link: https://github.com/scottcm73/coinmarketcap_api_tutorial

Acknowledgements

I obtained much of the code from:

https://coinmarketcap.com/api/documentation/v1/