libcryptomarket: Powerful cryptocurrency market analysis toolkit
Objective
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Support API calls of top cryptocurrency exchanges
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Support trading and analysis tools for cryptocurrency market
The project aims to answer the following two questions:
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How to get historical data, especially a long period, in a single query?
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How to send exchange API query in an elegent fashion?
Prerequisite
Python 3.5+
Installation
You can install it via pip for static version
pip install libcryptomarket
or development version
pip install git+https://github.com/libcryptomarket/libcryptomarket.git
API Usage
This library is to extend the library ccxt on more powerful functions. So the supported exchanges are same as ccxt while a few exchanges are extended with the following features. You just need to import the exchange from libcryptomarket.
Candles
from datetime import datetime
import libcryptomarket
poloniex = libcryptomarket.poloniex()
candles = poloniex.fetch_candles(
symbol="ETH/BTC",
start_time=datetime(2018, 1, 1),
end_time=datetime(2018, 1, 30),
frequency="30m")
Latest candles
from datetime import datetime
import libcryptomarket
poloniex = libcryptomarket.poloniex()
candles = poloniex.fetch_latest_candles(
symbols=["ETH/BTC", "LTC/BTC"],
frequency="30m",
frequency_count=5)
Supported exchanges
| Exchange | candles | latest_candles |
|---|---|---|
| Poloniex | v | v |
| Bitfinex | v | v |
| GDAX | v | v |
Console Usage
Console usage is for exporting historical data.
Request candles
request-candles --exchange poloniex --symbols ETH/BTC LTC/BTC --frequency 30m --start-time 2018-01-01 --end-time 2018-01-31 --output test.csv
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).