Not exactly what Austrian Economists meant by 'price discovery', but a great way to find prices from loads of markets and use in your apps, IRC/XMPP bots, or even on the command line.
NOTE: Don't Use gem from ruby gems yet, not ready Yet. Packaging up etc now. Playing with a git clone is fine.
Current Market Price Providers Implemented:
- Blockchain.info
Future Market Price Providers:
- MTGox, BTC-e, Vircuex
- Bitcoin MPex, CryptoStocks
- BitcoinCharts
- Coinabul
- Kitco
- Open-Transaction Markets
- Ripple Markets
- Forex/Currency Markets
- Handle Net Exceptions
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'mises_prices'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install mises_prices
pry -r "./lib/mises_prices" # If you git cloned
or
pry
[1] pry(main)> require 'mises_prices' # If you are using the gem
# Lets see a list of market price providers
[1] pry(main)> MisesPrices::providers
=> ["blockchaininfo"]
# Lets use the blockchaininfo prrovider
[1] pry(main)> p = MisesPrices::blockchaininfo
# Lets see what is available
[2] pry(main)> p.help
=> ["blockchain.info: \"15m\" is the 15 minutes delayed market price, \"24h\" is the 24 hour
average market price, \"symbol\" is the currency symbol.",
"currencies | List all currency prices provided. i.e. USD, EUR",
"quote_types | List all quote types available for each currency. i.e. Last, 24h",
"quote currency [type=all] | Get a quote for a currency, type optional.",
"quote_human currency | Get a nice human string fo
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r a currency. Good for IRC/XMPP etc."]
[3] pry(main)> p.quote_currencies
=> ["USD","CNY","JPY","SGD","HKD","CAD","AUD","NZD","GBP","DKK","SEK","BRL","CHF","EUR",
"RUB","SLL","PLN","THB"]
[4] pry(main)> p.quote_types
=> ["15m", "last", "buy", "sell", "24h", "symbol"]
# Lets get some prices
[5] pry(main)> p.quote "USD"
=> {"15m"=>47.42627,"last"=>47.42627,"buy"=>47.34657,"sell"=>47.42627,"24h"=>45.67,"symbol"=>"$"}
[6] pry(main)> p.quote :usd
=> {"15m"=>47.42627,"last"=>47.42627,"buy"=>47.34657,"sell"=>47.42627,"24h"=>45.67,"symbol"=>"$"}
[7] pry(main)> p.quote :usd, 'last'
=> 47.42627
[8] pry(main)> p.quote_human :usd
=> "BTC $USD: LAST $47.43, 15m $47.43, 24h $45.67, BUY $47.35, SELL $47.43 | blockchain.info"
[9] pry(main)> p.quote_human :xxx
=> "Error: Invalid Currency XXX. Valid Currencies: USD, CNY, JPY, SGD, HKD, CAD, AUD, NZD, GBP, DKK, SEK, BRL, CHF, EUR, RUB, SLL, PLN, THB"
[10] pry(main)>- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request