"""
A simple API for retrieving bitcoin data
| API Documentation: https://bitcoinaverage.com/api
"""
import urllib.request, json
"""
CURRENCY_CODES = ['AUD', 'BRL', 'CAD', 'CHF', 'CNY', 'EUR', 'GBP', 'IDR',
'ILS', 'MXN', 'NOK', 'NZD', 'PLN', 'RON', 'RUB', 'SEK', 'SGD', 'USD', 'ZAR']
"""
CURRENCY_CODE = 'USD'
URL = 'https://api.bitcoinaverage.com/ticker/'+CURRENCY_CODE+'/'
[docs]def update_data():
return json.loads(urllib.request.urlopen(URL).read().decode('utf-8'))
[docs]def get_data(key):
"""
Keys/Values:
| 24h_avg: average of weighted averages for last 24 hours
| ask: weighted average of ask prices
| bid: weighted average of bid prices
| last: weighted average of last prices
| total_vol: trading volume across all exchanges in last 24 hours
"""
response = update_data()
if key not in response:
return None
return response[key]