a lightweight python scraper to get/scrape historical data from the CoinMarketCap website and convert it into a csv file. This is an initial step for a data mining process to develop a predictive model of cryptocurrencies prices. This code is built with python 3.

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

In order to excute this code you will need the following python 3 packages:

• tkinter module

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

• BeautifulSoup module

sudo pip install beautifulsoup4

• requests module

sudo pip install requests

This code has been only tested on ubuntu 16.04

This code can be either excuted using a python IDE or by running the following command in the terminal:

python3 main.py

• Spyder3

If you have any improvement's suggestions, please contact me.

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

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