Cryptocurrency prices in brazilian reais on command line

brcoin is an open source bash script to view cryptocurrency prices from Mercado Bitcoin public API on command line.

• Easy to use
• Setup & Run in seconds
• Get updated prices in brazilian reais (R$)

Features

• 10+ listed cryptocurrencies
• Table view with multiple coins tracking
• Raw price data you can integrate with your own project
• Price rounding and add currency symbol options
• Last, buy, sell, high, low and opening prices, and coin negotiated volume

brcoin runs on bash shell for Linux, Windows and Mac.

Screenshot

Installation

Step 1

Clone the project repository:

$ git clone github.com/lucianoayres/brcoin.git

Step 2

Assign "execute" permission to the file:

$ sudo chmod +x brcoin

Step 3

Add the script path to your $PATH (or simply move it to a folder already in your $PATH):

$ export PATH=$PATH:$PWD

Dependency

Requires jq to parse JSON data. Make sure to install it before running brcoin.

# install jq package on Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install jq

Usage

# Display table view with all listed cryptocurrency prices
$ brcoin

Examples

# Display table view with updated bitcoin price data
$ brcoin btc

# Display table view with Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Link coin updated price data
$ brcoin bch btc eth link

# Display Litecoin raw updated price
$ brcoin ltc -r

# Display single view Ripple updated price data
$ brcoin xrp -single

# Display Bitcoin price data rounded to 2 decimal places with brazilian real currency symbol
$ brcoin btc -d2 -c

# display Bitcoin highest price of the day data
$ brcoin btc -r --high

# Display Ethereum rounded opening price of the day data with brazilian real currency symbol
$ brcoin eth -d -c --buy

Options

brcoin [COIN] [VIEW MODE] [DATA TYPE]

[COIN]

Sets a single or multiple cryptocoins ticker symbols. Mandatory only when used combined with the folowing [VIEW MODE] types: raw, round, currency and single. If no [DATA TYPE] is set, --last is set by default.

[COIN]	Description
ada	Get Cardano price
ago	Get Algorand price
ankr	Get ANKR price
axs	Get Axie Infinity price
band	Get Band Protocol price
bch	Get Bitcoin Cash price
btc	Get Bitcoin price
chz	Get Chiliz price
crv	Get Curve Dao Token price
doge	Get Dogecoin price
eth	Get Ethereum price
link	Get Chainlink price
ltc	Get Litecoin price
mco2	Get Moss Earth price
paxg	Get PAX Gold price
sol	Get Solana price
sushi	Get SushiSwap price
uni	Get Uniswap price
usdc	Get USD Coin price
usdp	Get Pax Dollar price
wbx	Get WBiX price
xrp	Get Ripple price
zxr	Get 0x price

Note: All prices in brazilian reais (R$).

[VIEW MODE]

Optional argument to set the data output style to be displayed. If no [VIEW MODE] is set, --table is used by default. Raw, single and table view are exclusive and can not be combined with each other or any other available view mode. Round, -d and -d0 view modes can be combined with -currency view mode.

[VIEW MODE]	Description
-r, -raw	Display raw price data
-d, -round	Display rounded price data to 04 decimal places
-d2	Display rounded price data to 02 decimal places
-d0	Display rounded price data with no decimal places
-c, -currency	Display raw price data with brazilian real currency symbol
-single	Display all price data of the selected cryptocoin
-table	Display selected cryptocoin(s) price data in table format

[DATA TYPE]

Optional argument to set the data items to be displayed in compatible [VIEW MODE] types: raw, rounded and currency. Only one [DATA TYPE] argument allowed per usage.

Plugin	README
--last	Last price
--buy	Buy price
--sell	Sell price
--high	Highest price of the day
--low	Lowest prie of the day
--open	Opening price of the day
--vol, --volume	Negotiated volume of the day

Additional Options

Plugin	README
--help	Display command help
--version	Output version information

References

• Mercado Bitcoin Data API
• Inspired by coinmon

License

MIT License