cryptocharts

Cryptocurrency stats and charts displayed in your terminal.

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Examples
  • Chart
  • Table
• FAQ
• License

Install

Make sure to have golang installed, then do:

go get -u github.com/miguelmota/cryptocharts

Dependencies

• ncurses library

Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev

RedHat/Fedora/CentOS

sudo yum install ncurses-devel

Usage

$ cryptocharts -help

  -chart-height uint
        Line chart height: .ie. 15 | 20 | 25 | 30 (default 20)
  -coin string
        Cryptocurrency name. ie. bitcoin | ethereum | litecoin | etc... (default "bitcoin")
  -color string
        Primary color. ie. green | cyan | magenta | red | yellow | white (default "green")
  -date string
        Chart date range. ie. 1h | 1d | 2d | 7d | 30d | 2w | 1m | 3m | 1y (default "7d")
  -global
        Show global market data.
  -refresh uint
        How often to refetch data in seconds: .ie. 30, 60 (default 60)
  -limit uint
        Limit number of cryptocurrencies to return for table. ie. 10 | 25 | 50 | 100 (default 50)
  -table
        Show the top 50 cryptocurrencies in a table.

Examples

Chart

Here's an example of getting latest Ethereum stats, and chart data for the last 30 days:

$ cryptocharts -coin ethereum -date 30d

Here's an example of how you can set the primary color for the dashboard:

$ cryptocharts -coin bitcoin -date 1d -color white

Here's an example of displaying global market data only:

$ cryptocharts -global

Table

Here's an example of displaying the top 100 cryptocurrencies stats in a table:

$ cryptocharts -table -limit 100 -color green

Table commands

List of shortcuts:

Help screen

FAQ

• Q: Where is the data from?

  • A: The data is from Coin Market Cap.

• Q: What coins does this support?

  • A: This supports any coin listed on Coin Market Cap.

• Q: How often is the data polled?

  • A: Data gets polled once every minute by default.

• Q: How can I get multiple dashboards at once?

  • A: Use a window multiplexer, such as tmux or screen.

• Q: I get install errors regarding ncurses.

  • A: Make sure to have installed the required libraries, discussed in the Install section.

• Q: I installed cryptocharts without errors but the command is not found.

  • A: Make sure your GOPATH and PATH is set correctly.

    export GOPATH=$HOME/go
    export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

License

MIT