Topic: sources for exchange rate lookup? (Read 612 times)
If you go there directly you can sign up for an api.It was more a grump that they didn't have it directly on their page and had to go into a wiki format which was not very pretty and needs some more organizing to get around it. With the api (once its set up)your just have to figure out what data you want to get back. Preev.com was just a decent ui to make checks on bitcoin value and you didn't have to register.
The rates are so different at different websites too that it's tough to figure it out at times.
It takes it's info off MtGox.com, though I didn't succeed findinout how it does so looking in the "cleaned up" source html or javascript, not firefux debugger helped me. Perhaps installing a sniffer would allow me to see what url is sent to mtgox.com, but I would suspect that the page calls a page that is also if preev.com, be for the public code to work, despite it's obviously made difficult to read.
I wish to have a simple call from php. If you look at http://blockexplorer.com/q/addressbalance/address, you find that the response is pretty clear and straight forward.
Whether encoded in JSON or in plaintext, that's the sort of "access" I want, though for the exchange rate, from reliable sources such as mtgox, but hopefullt several souces so that I can either average or compute a decision, or at least not rely exclusively on only one source.
Definitely, I'd check mtgox directly, rather than through preev, because the latter would give me the same value yet relayed.
Thanks for your reply
I wish to have a simple call from php. If you look at http://blockexplorer.com/q/addressbalance/address, you find that the response is pretty clear and straight forward.
Whether encoded in JSON or in plaintext, that's the sort of "access" I want, though for the exchange rate, from reliable sources such as mtgox, but hopefullt several souces so that I can either average or compute a decision, or at least not rely exclusively on only one source.
Definitely, I'd check mtgox directly, rather than through preev, because the latter would give me the same value yet relayed.
Thanks for your reply
If you have a smart phone the wallet app in the android marketplace keeps track of it. I also found a site here http://preev.com/.
If you do find an api you like add it on.
If you do find an api you like add it on.
I am looking at reliable source to actually get the market exchange rate between BTC/USD, and hopefully BTC/EUR and BTC/CAD as well.
This is for automation purposes, so that can process a fair exchange rate according to at least several reliable source. I do NOT want to rely on only one source.
Does anyone know of any such source, where the data can be provided though an, API, in plain text, or any mean that is meant to be read "not on a web page"?
This is for automation purposes, so that can process a fair exchange rate according to at least several reliable source. I do NOT want to rely on only one source.
Does anyone know of any such source, where the data can be provided though an, API, in plain text, or any mean that is meant to be read "not on a web page"?
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