libcryptomarket: Powerful cryptocurrency market analysis toolkit

Objective

The library is for researchers to analysis cryptocurrency in a fast and flexible way. Currently there are different source of API to get the cryptocurrency market information. The sources are from websites which provides a general comparative information among the currencies and from exchanges. The target is to normalize the API functions from data source, and let the users query the data without pain.

Prerequisite

Python 3.5+

Installation

To install the library, please run the command to install via pip

pip install git+https://github.com/libcryptomarket/libcryptomarket.git

Usage

All the query result are converted into pandas Series or DataFrame.

Instrument

To get a list of available currencies, run

from libcryptomarket.instrument import get_instruments

instruments = get_instruments()

Historical

Run

from datetime import datetime
from libcryptomarket.historical import get_historical_prices

prices = get_historical_prices(symbol='LTCBTC',
                               exchange='Poloniex',
                               period="hour",
                               from_time=datetime(2017, 5, 1),
                               to_time=datetime(2017, 8, 1))

Then you can get historical price in ascending order seamlessly, even though the limit has exceeded the source limit. The application helps continue querying until the data reaches the requirements.

Contribution

The project is targeting as a core but generic toolkit to query cryptocurrency market, so we are happy if you join to contribute and make it better. Please do not hesitate to contact us (gavincyi at gmail dot com).

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