Bitcoin Price Tracker

This Python project is a simple Bitcoin Price Tracker that uses the CoinGecko API to fetch the current price of Bitcoin in USD and display it using a Tkinter-based GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Features

• Fetch Real-Time Bitcoin Price: The app pulls live Bitcoin price data in USD from the CoinGecko API.
• Auto Update: The price and the last updated time are displayed and can be manually refreshed.
• Tkinter GUI: The app uses Tkinter to display the Bitcoin price and update time in a clean, user-friendly interface.

Prerequisites

Before running the application, make sure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.x
• The requests library for making HTTP requests
• Tkinter (comes pre-installed with Python)

Install the requests module

If you do not have requests installed, you can install it via pip:

pip install requests

Usage

To clone the repository and run the project locally:

git clone https://github.com/tongchhin70/bitcoin-price-tracker.git
cd bitcoin-price-tracker

Run the Python Script

You can run the script using the following command:

python bitcoin_price_tracker.py

Code Explanation

How it works

-** The app sends an HTTP GET request to the CoinGecko API to fetch the current Bitcoin price in USD. -** The price and the last updated time are displayed on the Tkinter window. -** You can see the price of Bitcoin and the time when the last data was fetched.

API

This app uses the CoinGecko API to fetch the current price of Bitcoin.

• https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs_currencies=usd

{
  "bitcoin": {
    "usd": 50000
  }
}