Bitcoin prices JSON API

This is a Sinatra app that expose a REST API for bitcoin prices (https://bitcoinaverage.com/).

You need to have Redis installed if you want to enable cache. Results are kept in cache for 60 seconds by default.

Sample configuration is in .env.example file. Please create your own .env file.

By default endpoints are secured by Basic access authentication.

Example request:

GET :host/api/price/usd

Example response:

{
	"price": 234.23,
	"currency": "USD"
}

App supports almost every currency in the ISO 4217 standard.

Requirements

• Redis

Installation

$ bundle install

Running

$ ruby app.rb

Requsting API

/api/price/:currency

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/tradziej/bitcoin_avg_api/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request