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Cryptocurrency rest api

Cryptocurrency Price REST API written in Golang. Data is scraped from CoinMarketCap.

Please note that this is an unofficial API and is not supported or controlled by CoinMarketCap itself.

Live api base url: https://go-crypto.herokuapp.com

Usage

GET /coins.json

Output: JSON Response:

  [
     {
      "success": true,
      "timestamp": 1515959618,
      "amount_of_coins": 1433,
      "coins": [
          {
          "name": "bitcoin",
          "ticker": "BTC",
          "btc": "1.0",
          "price": "13615.6",
          "currency": "usd"
          },
          {
          "name": "ethereum",
          "ticker": "ETH",
          "btc": "0.0978496",
          "price": "1332.52",
          "currency": "usd"
          }
      ]
    }
  ]
  ...

Run Locally

I use dep to manage my dependencies so this guide assumes you have that installed :)

$ dep ensure
$ go run server.go

License

WTFPL License