Merge pull request #192 from TaniaMalhotra/bitcoin-price

Bitcoin price

Author: tejan-singh

Python/bitcoin-price/README.md

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+# Script to get current bitcoin price
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+## Aim
+Aim of the script is to get the current price of bitcoin using python.
+
+## Approach
+The approach followed here is the use of bs4 for scraping. We open the coinmarketcap current price page, locate the div and extract the span element containing the price.</br>
+
+## Requirements
+
+```pip install bs4```</br>
+
+```pip install requests```</br>
+
+## To run
+
+```python current_price.py```

Python/bitcoin-price/current_price.py

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+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as BS
+
+# We are basically getting the URL of coinmarket camp and scraping it's content
+soup = BS(requests.get('https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/').content, features="lxml")
+
+# Here we are searching for the corresponding div in which span class is present
+# then we need to extract the span class
+div = soup.find("div", {"class" : "f6l7tu-0 cdygDb cmc-details-panel-price"
+}).find("span", {"class" : "cmc-details-panel-price__price"})
+
+# Now we print all elements extracted from div
+for i in div:
+    print(i)

Python/bitcoin-price/requirements.txt

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+
+beautifulsoup4==4.9.1
+requests==2.24.0