Doge coin price tracker using python

Step 1: Library Installations

 

* pip install bs4

 

* pip install requests

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2: Importing Libraries 

 

 

 import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs

 

 

Step 3: Requesting the URL 

 

url='https://www.coindesk.com/price/bitcoin'
r=requests.get(url)

 

 

Step 4: Extracting the contents in Html form 

soup=bs(r.content,'html.parser')

 

 

Step 5: Extracting the prices  

 

price=soup.find('div',{'class':'price-large'}) 

print("bitcoin:",price.text)

Step 6: Whether its price is  increasing or Decreasing

 

percent=soup.find('span',{'class':'percent-value-text'})
percentage=float(percent.text)
if percentage>0:
    print('bitcoin increased today')
else:
    print('bitcoin decreased today') 

For more clear understandings of code then check out this video..! 

 

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Full code link : Cryptocurrency tracker

 

 

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