Get Crypto Prices Using R Without httr2
If you are not comfortable with API requests, R has some built-in libraries that handles these things for you. One example of such is the cryptoQuotes package, which provides access to latest crypto prices and volumes without having to do the requests yourself.
We can use the getQuotes function to get the prices of any pair listed on major exchanges. Below is an example,
Getting Crypto Prices Using cryptoQuotes:
# 1) get latest
# BTC prices using
# getQuote
tail(
btc_price <- cryptoQuotes::getQuote(
ticker = 'BTCUSDT',
source = 'binance',
futures = FALSE,
interval = '1d'
)
)
Output:
Open High Low Close Volume
2023-12-17 42278.02 42424.07 41252.00 41374.65 27722.11
2023-12-18 41374.64 42757.81 40542.93 42657.80 46734.09
2023-12-19 42657.80 43497.00 41811.10 42275.99 40927.86
2023-12-20 42275.99 44283.00 42206.00 43668.93 48710.29
2023-12-21 43668.92 44242.35 43286.72 43861.80 34624.29
2023-12-22 43861.79 44398.26 43412.54 43939.81 27436.58
All extracted prices can charted using candlesticks and various indicators, such as Bollinger Bands. Here is an example using getQuote and chart from the package to chart the Ethereum daily price,
# 1) get latest
# ethereum prices
# on 15 minute intervals
eth_price <- cryptoQuotes::getQuote(
ticker = 'ETHUSDT',
source = 'binance',
futures = FALSE,
interval = '1d'
)
# 2) chart prices with
# candlesticks and
# add Bollinger Bands
cryptoQuotes::chart(
chart = cryptoQuotes::kline(quote = eth_price) %>%
cryptoQuotes::addVolume() %>%
cryptoQuotes::addBBands(),
slider = FALSE
)
Output:
Daily Ethereum Prices with Candlesticks and Bollinger Bands
The cryptoQuotes package supports Spot and Futures market in all available intervals, and can be installed using the following code,
## install cryptoQuotes
install.packages('cryptoQuotes', dependencies = TRUE)
Get Real-Time Crypto Currencies Price Using R and Binance API
In this article, we are going to see how to get the real-time price of cryptocurrencies using Binance API in R Programming Language.
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