mdsilber / btcl

Follow Bitcoin exchanges from your terminal.

btcl

Follow Bitcoin markets from your terminal.

btcl is a cli for retrieving Bitcoin prices from your command-line instantly. You can choose to get the top market or retrieve a single price quote with the exchange symbol from bitcoincharts.

$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0

Install

Install via rubygems

$ gem install btcl

Install via Docker

$ docker build -t btcl github.com/jawerty/btcl
$ docker run btcl

Usage

Retrieve the prices from the top exchanges.

$ btcl

Quickly retrieve the ask price from a single exchange. The first argument is the symbol used on bitcoincharts.com (see all market symbols at bitcoincharts.com/markets/).

$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0

Get more prices.

$ btcl mtgoxUSD --verbose

or

$ btcl mtgoxUSD -v

Contact

If you would like to contact me for further information on the project, see the info below.

Email: [email protected]

Github: jawerty

Twitter: @jawerty

Blog: http://jawerty.github.io