btc-price

Command-line tool for displaying Bitcoin price

Usage no npm install needed!

<script type="module">
  import btcPrice from 'https://cdn.skypack.dev/btc-price';
</script>

README

BTC Price

Yet another tiny library that fetches latest BTC prices in different currencies.

Installation

npm install btc-price -g

Usage

In your shell: btc-price

Data Source

Pulling the price thanks to CoinDesk.com's free API. Big shoutout to them!

Options

  • default Will display price in United States Dollars
  • -g Display price in Great British Pounds
  • -e Display price in Euro's
  • -r Display price in Russian Rubles
  • -j Display price in Japanese Yen
  • -y Display price in Chinese Yuan
  • -i Display price in Indian Rupee
  • -c Display price in Canadian Dollar
  • -s Display price in Swedish Krona
  • -V Display current version

Website

You can check out my free currency converter tool that will allow you to convert any conventional fiat currency into cryptocurrency. We have pairings from BTC, DOGE, ETH, LTC & more that can convert by USD, EUR, GBP & more.

Fiat (USD) -> Cryptocurrency (BTC) Converter Tool Fiat (USD) -> Cryptocurrency (DOGE) Converter Tool

Testing

To run the mocha test suite use npm test

Currently the testing is a placeholder :)

Contributing

Please feel free to go nuts; open a PR, Issue or Fork!

Verion History

  • 0.3.1 Slight optimization, adding SEK
  • 0.3.0 Encapsulating our script in a function, testing framework skeleton
  • 0.2.3 Adding CAD
  • 0.2.2 Adding INR
  • 0.2.1 Adding JPY & CNY
  • 0.2.0 Added a shoutout to CoinDesk, RUB support, upcoming currencies
  • 0.1.6 Adding website, fixing styling
  • 0.1.5 Proper commander versioning
  • 0.1.4 Removing text prefix & README
  • 0.1.3 Version update & tagging
  • 0.1.2 Moving script
  • 0.1.0 Add color, error handling & currency options
  • 0.0.2 Tagging & minor error fixes
  • 0.0.1 Initial release

TO-DO's:

  • Add better error handling
  • Testing (Mocha, Sinon)