Request: Is it possible to get an example to fetch from the coinmarketcap API?

[krunkosaurus]

Request: Is it possible to get an example to fetch from the coinmarketcap API?

[johnthethird]

@zachherbert This snippet of AppleScript will get any price from https://coinmarketcap.com/ . It depends on having jq installed for grabbing stuff out of the JSON. See https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

set value to do shell script "curl -s https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/bitcoin/ | /usr/local/bin/jq '.[0].price_usd | tonumber'"
return "$" & value

[krunkosaurus]

@dylandamsma Sorry for the delayed response. The answer it to use "grep" or "sed" or any other unix based tool. BetterTouchTool uses Apple script but can run Unix commands so that's how we do it. When I have time, I can add features to use the coinmarketcap.com API. Probably two weeks from now.

[zachherbert]

Would be amazing if it was easy to access any coin from Coinmarketcap.

If I could easily use the URL for Coinmarketcap API and a URL for the coin icon, I could easily customize this for myself with my favorite coins.

[ajc308]

PR created here for CoinMarketCap: #8