bimlas/xfce4-coingecko

XFCE4 GenMon plugin: Cryptocurrency price widget

XFCE CoinGecko

Generic Monitor (Genmon) plugin that shows the prices of your favorite and trending cryptocurrency tokens via fetching CoinGecko API.

Features:

• Click on the widget to visit CoinGecko site
• Hover over the widget to view trending tokens
• Get system notification from tokens having huge price change

https://github.com/bimlas/xfce4-coingecko (please star if you like the plugin)

Usage

$ xfce4-coingecko.sh <warnlevel> <token1> <token2> ...

• <warnlevel>
  • The minimum daily price change expressed as a percentage for which you want to receive notifications (set it to a high value to disable)
• <token>
  • CoinGecko API ID of the token (from the "Info" box of it)

Because the list of the tokens could be long, it's suggested to create a "wrapper" shell script, for example xfce4-coingecko-wrapper.sh:

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/xfce4-coingecko.sh 20 bitcoin ethereum matic-network

Don't forget to make it executable via chmod +x xfce4-coingecko-wrapper.sh.

Adding Genmon widget

• First you have to install xfce4-genmon-plugin package if it is not on your system
• Add the monitor to the panel
  • Right click on the panel
  • Select Panel -> Add new items
  • Add Generic Monitor plugin
• Set up the generic monitor to use with this script
  • Right click on the newly added generic monitor -> Properties
  • Command: /path/to/xfce4-coingecko-wrapper.sh
  • Uncheck the checkbox of Label
  • Set Period to at least 30 seconds
    • Do not set it to lower value because you would reach rate-limit of the API