This is a simple, terminal-based ticker for the current price at Coinbase.

This script is a simple, minimalist terminal-based ticker for coinbase.com.

It was written to let me keep an eye on the price at coinbase without having to keep a browser tab open. It is not meant to facilitate buying or selling, or doing anything with anyone's personal account.

It does not keep any historical data; it is just written to let you watch price movement from the time you start running the script.

I am mostly interested in knowing when the price is just above local minima, so it reports the amount above the low price.

The output is formatted to fit nicely in a thin terminal window on the side of the screen.

Output:

timestamp - price
timestamp - price
...
high:       price - timestamp
low:        price - timestamp
difference: amount

current:    price
below high: amount

Parameters

• INTERVAL: how often to poll coinbase, default 60 seconds
• MAX_DISPLAY: how many prices to show, default 25
• MAX_PRICES: how many prices to keep, default 10000; affects calculation of high/ low, other stats
• DEBUG: when True, INTERVAL=1 second, MAX_DISPLAY=5

I'm sure it's buggy, and the code is ugly, but it works minimally.

Requires requests, which can be installed through pip:

pip install requests

Also requires Python 3 to print the output nicely. It will run under Python 2, but the output will be a bit uglier.