CoinMarketCapScraper

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.

Getting Started

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

Prerequisites

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
  

Tests

This code has been only tested on ubuntu 16.04

Deployment

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

python3 main.py

Screenshots

Built With

• Spyder3

Contributing

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

License

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

Acknowledgments

• The nameless heros of Stackoverflow