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Topic: A Bitcoin Price Notifier - never miss price movements again! (Read 5091 times)

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Downloading .exe files from a forum is a fast way to have all your BTC stolen.

Sure, if you have no idea how to secure your wallet. In that case, it will probably be stolen anyway, by some exe you download from wherever it is you prefer to download your exes. Or by a virus that will get on your system, because you lack basic IT skills.

But thanks for reminding us about the danger. Braindead people find your advice very helpful - how could they possibly think about the risks themselves? Good job! Stay alert!

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Bitcoin
Nice tool. Although, could you have it return Bitstamp rather than BTC-e when Gox is down as Bitstamp prices are normally closer to Gox? Or perhaps allow the user to select from a list of exchanges?

just use my RSS feed...  it averages multiple exchanges and gives the most  accurate price...   20,000 to 70,000 people can't be wrong.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/OuncemeQuotesFullFeed

using that at least it has failover, etc... 





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I was thinking today that it would be really usefull to have something like this for my smartphone. Maybe receive a txt msg or some sort of notifcation when the price changes a certain amount.   Right now it's a bit painful to try to watch prices when you're out on the go and not sitting in front of a computer.
legendary
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Keep it real
Obligatory mod edit in OP, be careful of any .exe guys
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To avoid hijacking this thread I've created my own one with regards to the HTML5 notifier:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/html5-bitcoin-exchange-rate-notifier-179647

(In summary: I'm working on support for multiple exchanges, multiple currencies & some configurability.)

// Edit: spelling Wink.
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And there is also my little tool Smiley



Which is almost 2 years old.
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//Edit: Just to make clear this notifier is entirely independent of the OPs. I just thought it would be interesting to see how hard an html5 version of it would be.

Ah, I didn't spot that. In that case, consider my feature request aimed at you!
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You are a geek if you are too early to the party!
You can write it as a website using desktop notifications.
I've quickly hacked together a page using Mt. Gox... It's not beatiful code (I have virtually no JS experience, but it seems to work (haven't tested the 5% detection yet, as there hasn't been a 5% change in the last 1/2 hour...). Should be up once I have some webspace. (Only works on webkit based browsers, have only tested chromium.)
HTML5 version here:
http://teajam.co.uk/btc/btcnotifier.html

To use:
Press "Enable Notifications" before the first use.
Press "Press to start" to start.

(Has to be on webkit, haven't tested on anything but Chromium.)

It checks MtGox every 5 minutes, and updated you once the price has change by 5% or more.

I'll probably flesh it out a bit and put in a better UI later today.

That is really cool - can you do the same for other currencies, or is this only available from MTGox API?
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Nice tool. Although, could you have it return Bitstamp rather than BTC-e when Gox is down as Bitstamp prices are normally closer to Gox? Or perhaps allow the user to select from a list of exchanges?
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You can write it as a website using desktop notifications.
I've quickly hacked together a page using Mt. Gox... It's not beatiful code (I have virtually no JS experience, but it seems to work (haven't tested the 5% detection yet, as there hasn't been a 5% change in the last 1/2 hour...). Should be up once I have some webspace. (Only works on webkit based browsers, have only tested chromium.)
HTML5 version here:
http://teajam.co.uk/btc/btcnotifier.html

To use:
Press "Enable Notifications" before the first use.
Press "Press to start" to start.

(Has to be on webkit, haven't tested on anything but Chromium.)

It checks MtGox every 5 minutes, and updated you once the price has change by 5% or more.

I'll probably flesh it out a bit and put in a better UI later today.

//Edit: Just to make clear this notifier is entirely independent of the OPs. I just thought it would be interesting to see how hard an html5 version of it would be.
jr. member
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You can write it as a website using desktop notifications.
I've quickly hacked together a page using Mt. Gox... It's not beatiful code (I have virtually no JS experience, but it seems to work (haven't tested the 5% detection yet, as there hasn't been a 5% change in the last 1/2 hour...). Should be up once I have some webspace. (Only works on webkit based browsers, have only tested chromium.)
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Weighted companion cube
You mean a windows gadget?

I'll look into desktop notifications, but I don't see much point in implementing them since the .net version works fine for me.
legendary
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Reverse engineer from time to time
If this only queries a website and displays popups, why not just code it as an HTML5 Windows widget?
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Hmm, good point. I originally tried to do it in Flash, but there was no way to bring focus to it and make it pop up from the bottom right corner.
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No Maps for These Territories
I'm sure you mean well, but no one in their right mind is just going to run an exe posted to this board. Or at least I hope so.
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Weighted companion cube
Source code will be released with a small tip to my address Smiley But it's pretty simple anyway.
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pity that it's not sourcecode
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