Feature Request - Alternative Markets Source

[jedimstr]

2 Reasons why there should be an alternative choice for the Markets Module (i.e., Cryptocoin Charts at http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/)

1. Bitcoin Charts has been failing on occasion recently.
2. Bitcoin Charts is lacking in coin markets outside of BTC. It does list 2 LTC exchanges, but those are unpopular ones that are underutilized and have inaccurate prices that swing widely out of the usual market prices of LTC.

A market source like Cryptocoin Charts provides a wider swath of coins and currencies across the most popular and used Exchanges. This is especially important with LTC and other altcoin market stats.

There's also more extensive data in CryptoCoin Charts v2: http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/
Examples:
LTC/USD/BTC-E - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/pair/ltc/usd/btc-e/10-days
Exchange Specific data - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/markets/show/btc-e
Data across all popular coins on one page - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/info
Graphical Trade Volume for all coins - http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/coins/graphicalComparison

[selaux]

I agree that another markets module would be great (especially for altcoins), but I still need to find one that has a proper API (I did not find any api documentation at cryptocoincharts).

[jedimstr]

Cryptocoin now has an API available that covers most Altcoins and currency pairs across the highest volume exchanges:
http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/tools/api

[selaux]

I'll have a look into it soon. This is scheduled for the release after next. The only thing left for the next release is the charts for everything, which needs some reworking of the internals. After that support for altcoins is top priority.