bitcoin-cli

• The command line interface for getting the exchange rates for Bitcoin
• The line interface uses the simple API provided by coindesk.com for Bitcoin Price Index for various countries
• [Updated] Has now feature of historical price of Bitcoin for any currencies; but the limit is only 16 days

How to use

You need a python3 virtual environment: virtualenv

• Installing virtualenv : sudo pip install virtualenv

• virtualenv venv --python=python3

• . venv/bin/activate

• Clone the repository via git clone https://github.com/spaceVStab/bitcoin-cli.git.

• cd bitcoin-cli

• pip3 install .

• Simply run bitoin-cli to display the USD exchange rates

• You have to add --currency inr for to display INR exchange rates and similarly other countries rates

• You can run bitcoin-cli --show_country for displaying the supported country list

• Run bitcoin-cli --date 10 for displaying past 10 days Bitcoin Price in default USD

• Can be used with virtual environment only till now. Further contribution can be done.

• Further history for bitcoin can be added, different exchange points can also be used, other crypto-currency can be done.