chrypto

README

Chrypto

Chrypto is a command-line utility tool written in Go that allows you to quickly obtain all the available historical data for a wide range of cryptocurrencies.

It obtains the asset movement information (open, high, low, close, and volumes) along with the date in hourly intervals since the conception of the cryptocurrency. For example, chrypto could retrieve all the hourly historical price movements for Bitcoin since its conception.

The information is stored in an SQLite database, with a separate table created for each symbol. Each table contains all the hourly entries, with fields named time, close, high, low, open, volume_from, and volume_to. All of these fields correspond to the fields described in the CryptoCompare API - for further information, refer to their website.

All prices are quoted in US dollars.

Installation

Get the repository using go get, and then install.

$ go get github.com/DHDaniel/chrypto
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/DHDaniel/chrypto
$ go install

Once installed, there should be a binary installed in your $GOPATH/bin folder named chrypto.

Usage

Using the chrypto utility is very straightforward. All you need to provide is the list of symbols you want to retrieve data for, and an optional flag containing the location where you want to store the data.

Example

This retrieves all the available data for Bitcoin and Ethereum.

$ chrypto BTC ETH

Flags

The only flag that is available is the dbpath flag. It should be a path to the file where the script should store its data in. It defaults to ./historical.db, creating a new SQLite file where the binary is run.

This example provides a custom location. Both relative and absolute paths are accepted.

$ chrypto -dbpath="./path/to/my/database.db" BTC ETH