Bitcoin Windows gadget which displays BTC and currency amounts - page 8.

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Quote from: japerry on July 17, 2015, 03:03:45 AM

Thanks! Let us know if you find anything? BTW I've decreased the polling rate to 120 seconds and it seems to work much better now.

Well, Bitfinex is using Incapsula (https://www.incapsula.com/) which uses who-knows-what voodoo to detect suspicious connections. In this case it presents captcha and MyBitcoins gadget (obviously) fails the captcha test.

It's not due to number of requests - I've had it happen when gadget is set to poll Bitfinex once in 10 minutes, and their official API limit is 60 times per minute.

It makes no sense to have captcha protecting API endpoint, but that's how it goes with those CDNs that are optimized to work with websites instead of APIs... I've contacted Bitfinex support and reported this, I'll update here if it goes anywhere.

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Quote from: Domchi on July 16, 2015, 09:03:15 AM

I've noticed this a few days ago and went investigating. It seems that Bitfinex is using some sort of new anti-DDoS system - when the gadget doesn't update it is actually getting message that it's blocked. I haven't been able to find out what triggers it, but it's not just IP block, it's based on type of browser as well. It seems they blocked Internet Explorer (which is used by gadget) specifically. After a while this went away for me as well.

Perhaps choosing larger update interval in gadget would help, but there is no way of telling. I think that it's not about frequency of requests. Some sort of heuristics figured out that IE should be blocked for a while. Maybe they had DDoS attack that used or emulated IE.

Thanks! Let us know if you find anything? BTW I've decreased the polling rate to 120 seconds and it seems to work much better now.

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Quote from: japerry on July 16, 2015, 06:04:15 AM

Hmm... Looks like it stopped working about a week ago. All I get is N/A now. Would it be possible for someone to help guide me to see if Bitfinex has changed their API or something? I've unloaded and reloaded/reconfigured the gadget per the instructions in the previous message. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE: Nevermind! It's working now!!

I've noticed this a few days ago and went investigating. It seems that Bitfinex is using some sort of new anti-DDoS system - when the gadget doesn't update it is actually getting message that it's blocked. I haven't been able to find out what triggers it, but it's not just IP block, it's based on type of browser as well. It seems they blocked Internet Explorer (which is used by gadget) specifically. After a while this went away for me as well.

Perhaps choosing larger update interval in gadget would help, but there is no way of telling. I think that it's not about frequency of requests. Some sort of heuristics figured out that IE should be blocked for a while. Maybe they had DDoS attack that used or emulated IE.

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Quote from: japerry on May 18, 2015, 09:44:01 AM

Quote from: Domchi on May 18, 2015, 05:45:48 AM

Quote from: japerry on May 18, 2015, 04:27:53 AM

I was wondering if anyone has gotten this gadget to work with Bitfinex? I'm not a programmer by any means but I'd like to be able to use btcusd on Bitfinex? Can anyone help?

Hi japerry,

it's simple, go to gadget settings (wrench icon) and set change the following options:

Bitfinex
exchange URL: https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/BTCUSD
exhange rate JSON key: last_price
field 1 JSON key: ask
field 2 JSON key: last_price
field 3 JSON key: bid

Works like a dream! Thanks!!

Hmm... Looks like it stopped working about a week ago. All I get is N/A now. Would it be possible for someone to help guide me to see if Bitfinex has changed their API or something? I've unloaded and reloaded/reconfigured the gadget per the instructions in the previous message. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE: Nevermind! It's working now!!

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Quote from: ikydesu on June 22, 2015, 03:31:04 AM

Easy, I do not mean to denigrate your site, as far as i see guys here looks like they haven't any problem. Oke i will check carefully, but make sure to check the site always clean.
~iki

Oh, sorry if it seemed that way - don't take me wrong, I'm glad (and thankful) you've reported this. If you didn't, I wouldn't know about it, and people would be afraid to use (hopefully) useful gadget.

Site is clean, that's the first thing I checked, files haven't been modified since my last update. There's always a possibility that someone has hacked it and embedded some sort of malware on it.

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Quote from: Domchi on June 22, 2015, 03:09:01 AM

Quote from: ikydesu on June 22, 2015, 02:40:40 AM

Ouch, when i search for bitcoin widget price for windows, then i find this thread. When i scanned the site found this: https://www.virustotal.com/id/url/c1814dab7842c5ecf697e632d497e763cdabd3c76bf832d7a004efcf098d90f8/analysis/1434958587/ 1 Malicious.
~iki

What you're looking at is a false positive. Please note that the other 62 scanners on the same page say it's clean. I don't know where Websense ThreatSeeker is getting its info, but I can assure you that site is legit and without viruses.

But you don't have to take my word for it - check the page source, there's nothing suspicious in it. Also, the .gadget file itself is a simple ZIP with a few images, HTML and Javascript packed inside - you can unzip it before you install it and check it out. Search .js files in js folder for "http://" and "https://" to see where it connects.

Also, here's the antivirus scan of .gadget file on two separate online virus scanners - clean as a whistle. Don't trust me? Scan it yourself, you'll get the same result.

https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/636263b8c0674f9297b969288d7196c0

https://www.virustotal.com/id/file/443918b479a51bb957503805c5585688986ad66f94cae42b65c2c2bd919e32d4/analysis/

Easy, I do not mean to denigrate your site, as far as i see guys here looks like they haven't any problem. Oke i will check carefully, but make sure to check the site always clean.

~iki

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Quote from: ikydesu on June 22, 2015, 02:40:40 AM

Ouch, when i search for bitcoin widget price for windows, then i find this thread. When i scanned the site found this: https://www.virustotal.com/id/url/c1814dab7842c5ecf697e632d497e763cdabd3c76bf832d7a004efcf098d90f8/analysis/1434958587/ 1 Malicious.
~iki

What you're looking at is a false positive. Please note that the other 62 scanners on the same page say it's clean. I don't know where Websense ThreatSeeker is getting its info, but I can assure you that site is legit and without viruses.

But you don't have to take my word for it - check the page source, there's nothing suspicious in it. Also, the .gadget file itself is a simple ZIP with a few images, HTML and Javascript packed inside - you can unzip it before you install it and check it out. Search .js files in js folder for "http://" and "https://" to see where it connects.

Also, here's the antivirus scan of .gadget file on two separate online virus scanners - clean as a whistle. Don't trust me? Scan it yourself, you'll get the same result.

https://www.metascan-online.com/en/scanresult/file/636263b8c0674f9297b969288d7196c0

https://www.virustotal.com/id/file/443918b479a51bb957503805c5585688986ad66f94cae42b65c2c2bd919e32d4/analysis/

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Quote from: Domchi on August 20, 2011, 11:15:34 PM

Hi!

Do you want to see your BTC grow?

I did.

I wanted to be able to see two key pieces of information, my BTC and how much it's worth, but everything I found either wasn't a Windows gadget, or had too much info, or something... so I rolled my own.

This gadget can be configured to connect to up to 3 mining pools, fetch confirmed or unconfirmed rewards, payouts or whatever data is available. It can also connect to preferred exchange and get USD rate, and optionally connect to Yahoo Finance! and convert USD to any world currency.

Additionally, you can "correct" the shown amounts by adding or subtracting any amount of BTC; for example, to include BTC amount you exchanged or spent.

If you like it, you can let me know by sending some coins to 1CA1AL9X3VfZGYftnmRbQQeR7vdTwQyvhC - and if you have any questions/suggestions, fire away.

Download link: http://www.domchi.cc/mybitcoins/

Ouch, when i search for bitcoin widget price for windows, then i find this thread. When i scanned the site found this: https://www.virustotal.com/id/url/c1814dab7842c5ecf697e632d497e763cdabd3c76bf832d7a004efcf098d90f8/analysis/1434958587/ 1 Malicious.

~iki

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Quote from: Domchi on May 18, 2015, 05:45:48 AM

Quote from: japerry on May 18, 2015, 04:27:53 AM

I was wondering if anyone has gotten this gadget to work with Bitfinex? I'm not a programmer by any means but I'd like to be able to use btcusd on Bitfinex? Can anyone help?

Hi japerry,

it's simple, go to gadget settings (wrench icon) and set change the following options:

Bitfinex
exchange URL: https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/BTCUSD
exhange rate JSON key: last_price
field 1 JSON key: ask
field 2 JSON key: last_price
field 3 JSON key: bid

Works like a dream! Thanks!!

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Quote from: japerry on May 18, 2015, 04:27:53 AM

I was wondering if anyone has gotten this gadget to work with Bitfinex? I'm not a programmer by any means but I'd like to be able to use btcusd on Bitfinex? Can anyone help?

Hi japerry,

it's simple, go to gadget settings (wrench icon) and set change the following options:

Bitfinex
exchange URL: https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/pubticker/BTCUSD
exhange rate JSON key: last_price
field 1 JSON key: ask
field 2 JSON key: last_price
field 3 JSON key: bid

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I was wondering if anyone has gotten this gadget to work with Bitfinex? I'm not a programmer by any means but I'd like to be able to use btcusd on Bitfinex? Can anyone help?

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and anyone knows any gadgets under MacOS?

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Quote from: John.Berl on November 23, 2014, 03:38:30 PM

Do you have a gadget for MacOS?

No, sorry.

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Do you have a gadget for MacOS?

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Quote from: Den1982 on November 22, 2014, 01:39:53 PM

Quote from: Domchi on March 09, 2014, 08:36:42 AM

Quote from: Jesteroth on March 09, 2014, 06:32:41 AM

How can i get the BTC/USD from BTC-E ? I have the url but can't figure out the json. Huh

https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_usd/ticker

/EDIT

Ok i figured out now, mybitcoins gadget can't get btc_usd from BTCE but my litecoins gadget can get it. Very weird problem

This is indeed strange. What are your JSON values, are they either "last" or "json.ticker.last"? Do you have the latest version of MyBitcoins gadget (4.0) - you can check this out when you go to desktop gadget gallery and click on "show details"?

Hello!
Same problem. I am use 4.1 version and BTC-E did not work on it. On myLitecoins gadget BTC-E works perfectly.

I've just tried and it works OK for me. Very strange, as the code is the same. Let's try to troubleshoot this:

1. Are your exchange settings as following:

BTC-E
exchange URL: https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_usd/ticker
exhange rate JSON key: sell
field 1 JSON key: sell
field 2 JSON key: last
field 3 JSON key: buy

2. What's your exchange data update interval?

2. What is the version of your MyLitecoins gadget which works (should be 3.0)?

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Quote from: Domchi on March 09, 2014, 08:36:42 AM

Quote from: Jesteroth on March 09, 2014, 06:32:41 AM

How can i get the BTC/USD from BTC-E ? I have the url but can't figure out the json. Huh

https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_usd/ticker

/EDIT

Ok i figured out now, mybitcoins gadget can't get btc_usd from BTCE but my litecoins gadget can get it. Very weird problem

This is indeed strange. What are your JSON values, are they either "last" or "json.ticker.last"? Do you have the latest version of MyBitcoins gadget (4.0) - you can check this out when you go to desktop gadget gallery and click on "show details"?

Hello!
Same problem. I am use 4.1 version and BTC-E did not work on it. On myLitecoins gadget BTC-E works perfectly.

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Quote from: JeffZwolle on November 08, 2014, 08:33:41 PM

Too bad this Windows-gadget no longer seems to function on my pc since somewhere in the last 2 weeks.
Could there be a reason other than mij PC for this?

P.S. I downloaded it in November 2013 from http://domchi.cc/mybitcoins/
( Not from http://mybitcoinsgadget.esy.es/ which is untrusted : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mybitcoins-gadget-776063 )

I get the values from https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_eur/ticker

Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

Hi Jeff,

the one on esy.es is fake and .exe file which does who knows what, don't download it. Thanks for letting me know, I've commented in the other thread.

Try downloading the new version, between the November 2013 and now I've released versions 4.0 and 4.1, and in 4.0 there was a fix for a caching issue which might affect BTC-e if they changed something recently. I've tested BTC-e with the newest version and it works and updates OK.

One other thing, sidebar.exe which runs gadgets is known to hang sometimes when running for a long time (a few days or weeks), and all gadgets stop updating. If that's the case, you can use task manager / processes to end process sidebar.exe, and then restart it by running sidebar.exe manually (usually located at C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar).

Personally, I've got a script scheduled in Task Scheduler to automate restarting sidebar.exe from time to time (every two days) which I got from here: https://sysadminspot.com/windows/how-to-fix-sidebar-exe-using-lots-of-memory/

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Still works fine for me on a couple of different PC's

I use bitstamp though not btc-e

Exchange URL: https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/
Variable: last
Currency: USD

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Too bad this Windows-gadget no longer seems to function on my pc since somewhere in the last 2 weeks.
Could there be a reason other than mij PC for this?

P.S. I downloaded it in November 2013 from http://domchi.cc/mybitcoins/
( Not from http://mybitcoinsgadget.esy.es/ which is untrusted : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/mybitcoins-gadget-776063 )

I get the values from https://btc-e.com/api/2/btc_eur/ticker

Anyone else experiencing the same problem?

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Hi guys,

new version is out.

This update is the last MtGox-related update as it changes default MyBitcoins exchange URL to Bitstamp. MyBitcoins gadget would have almost twice less updates if it was not for MtGox API changes and problems, and although I sympathize with all folks who lost money with MtGox, honestly I'm happy to see it go.

It took me a while–-far too long–-to release this update as I was engaged with other projects and I apologize for that. Luckily, the gadgets work even if I'm not around to update them, and when default exchange stops working, you can simply switch to another exchange. If you have problems hooking gadget to anything, check the official gadget thread on Bitcointalk (check links on the left on each gadget download page) and if it's not already mentioned, don't be shy, ask me either in the tread or directly by answering this e-mail. I'd be glad to help.

Today I'm releasing the new versions of all gadgets. MyBitcoins has changed default exchange URL to Bitstamp, and there is one other new feature–you can write your own text in note field in settings and see it as you hover over the gadget. This is useful especially if you're using more than one instance of a same gadget and need a way to differentiate them.

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