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
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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