Topic: Bitcoin Price Image Generator - page 2. (Read 7057 times)
Any Chance you could make one similar but for the popular alt coins, I would definitely give you a nice tip for that
I wanted a little weekend project and it seemed like there was a need for this!
There sure is!
Nice work.
This one is decent too:
- http://btcticker.appspot.com/mtgox/1btc2usd.png
- http://btcticker.appspot.com/mtgox/100.00gbp.png
Oh, cool! I hadn't seen that. Some pretty cool features in that one. I think mine does a better job at blending in as text (although that still needs more work), but I'm glad to see there's another option for people wanting to do more sophisticated things!
I wanted a little weekend project and it seemed like there was a need for this!
There sure is!
Nice work.
This one is decent too:
- http://btcticker.appspot.com/mtgox/1btc2usd.png
- http://btcticker.appspot.com/mtgox/100.00gbp.png
Some users may not want precision to 4 decimal places.
You could add a variable to let the price auto round up(down?) to the nearest precision wanted.
It would add a bit more stability when the price fluctuates so much.
You could add a variable to let the price auto round up(down?) to the nearest precision wanted.
It would add a bit more stability when the price fluctuates so much.
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Thanks
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Shows up great on my thread! Thanks for this
On this note, the prices seem to come out a tad higher than what MT Gox is saying...hrmmm
On this note, the prices seem to come out a tad higher than what MT Gox is saying...hrmmm
Cool! One thing (to be safe) might be to put the USD price there in text too, just in case something goes wrong with my tool. Either if the image won't load or the price is wrong because of some error on my part. I wouldn't want you to feel obligated to sell something at a crazy low price if I screwed up!
The price could differ from Mt Gox slightly because it uses the 24 hour average, or because I'm caching the exchange rate for five minutes. Hopefully this never causes a significant discrepancy.
Shows up great on my thread! Thanks for this
On this note, the prices seem to come out a tad higher than what MT Gox is saying...hrmmm
On this note, the prices seem to come out a tad higher than what MT Gox is saying...hrmmm
I wanted a little weekend project and it seemed like there was a need for this!
The bitcoin price image generator is a simple tool that creates a dynamic image of a price in BTC, based on a fixed USD price. The resulting image can be embedded in a forum post, for example, and it will always show an up-to-date BTC equivalent price. This is useful when you want to show a price for something in BTC, but you want the price to be pinned to a USD value (and not have to update your post every day as the BTC/USD exchange rate fluctuates). This tool relies on the ticker from BitcoinAverage.com.
Usage
Simply build a URL of the form:
Where is the price you want in USD.
You can also add an optional color argument to change the color of the text:
The color code should be an html-like hex code (for black: '000000' or '000' or simply '0'). The background of the image will be transparent.
Example
Say you want to sell an item for $10. You can generate an image using:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/10.00
Which will yield the image:
If you want to change the color (to more closely match the text in your forum post, for example), use:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/10.00/00f
Which yields:
You can then embed the image in your post using that URL. In BBCode, this would be:
Please let me know what you think! Any suggestions?
The bitcoin price image generator is a simple tool that creates a dynamic image of a price in BTC, based on a fixed USD price. The resulting image can be embedded in a forum post, for example, and it will always show an up-to-date BTC equivalent price. This is useful when you want to show a price for something in BTC, but you want the price to be pinned to a USD value (and not have to update your post every day as the BTC/USD exchange rate fluctuates). This tool relies on the ticker from BitcoinAverage.com.
Usage
Simply build a URL of the form:
Code:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/
Where
You can also add an optional color argument to change the color of the text:
Code:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img//
The color code should be an html-like hex code (for black: '000000' or '000' or simply '0'). The background of the image will be transparent.
Example
Say you want to sell an item for $10. You can generate an image using:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/10.00
Which will yield the image:
If you want to change the color (to more closely match the text in your forum post, for example), use:
http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/10.00/00f
Which yields:
You can then embed the image in your post using that URL. In BBCode, this would be:
Code:
[img]http://btc-priceimg.herokuapp.com/img/10.00[/img]
Please let me know what you think! Any suggestions?
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