New Project: Bitcoin Price

Author: Dheelyte

README.md

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WEB SCRAPING/Bitcoin Price/README.md

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+# Bitcoin Price
+
+## Desciption
+This script is used to get the current price of Bitcoin in U.S. Dollars
+
+<br>
+
+## Installation
+
+Install request with the following command or using the requirements.txt file:
+
+```pip install requests```
+
+<br>
+
+## Usage
+Input the number of bitcoins as command line argument
+
+```python bitcoin.py 1```
+
+<br>
+
+```python bitcoin.py 5```

WEB SCRAPING/Bitcoin Price/bitcoin.py

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+import requests
+import sys
+
+
+""" Exit program if no command-line argument is provided """
+if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+    sys.exit("Missing command-line argument")
+
+
+""" 
+Convert command-line argument to float or
+Exit if command line argument is not a number
+"""
+try:
+    bitcoin = sys.argv[1]
+    bitcoin = float(bitcoin)
+except ValueError:
+    sys.exit("Command-line argument is not a number")
+
+
+"""Get Bitcoin price"""
+try:
+    response = requests.get("https://api.coindesk.com/v1/bpi/currentprice.json")
+    rate = response.json()["bpi"]["USD"]["rate_float"]
+    print(f"Current Price: ${bitcoin * rate:,.4f}")
+except requests.RequestException:
+    print("An Error Occurred")

WEB SCRAPING/Bitcoin Price/requirements.txt

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+requests