Bitcoin Speech Price Tracker
Date: December 4, 2014
Categories: Python
simple python script
to bitcoin price speech is the target price reached
it takes argument 1 as a target price
simple but still useful
to monitor bitcoin price via speech
#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import urllib2
import sys
import os
import time
import datetime
i = 0
while True:
link = "https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_usd/ticker/"
try:
content = urllib2.urlopen(link)
data_out = json.loads(content.read())
last = data_out['ticker']['last']
except:
time.sleep(3)
os.system("espeak 'connection lost'")
continue
i += 1
if int(last) >= int(sys.argv[1]):
os.system("espeak wakeup")
cli = "notify-send 'the current price is : %s'" %last
os.system(cli)
print last
print "Target : " + str(sys.argv[1]) + " Last: " + str(last) + " DateTime: " + str(datetime.datetime.now())
if i == 10:
cli = "notify-send 'the current price is : %s'" %last
os.system(cli)
i = 0
time.sleep(9)
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