Web Scraping Cryptocurrency 1-Minute Price Data (Python)
Step-by-step guide to scrap different cryptocurrency prices from CoinDesk.
Goal
This article aims at showing how to use Python scraping the cryptocurrency 1-minute prices in CoinDesk. In general, you can only pull the hour-based or day-based data and this is alright if you are working on a long-term investment strategy. However, the timely and short interval data would be a big benefit if someone is working on day-to-day trading so that he/she can better analyze the upcoming trend and recognize the pattern. Therefore, in the following, I will show you how to pull out the 1-minute price data from a famous cryptocurrency information platform — CoinDesk.
Cryptocurrency List
To scrape the cryptocurrency price, a list of cryptocurrencies is needed. In fact, there are nearly 6000 cryptocurrencies as of August 2021 and not all of them are good for trading in terms of market cap and liquidity. “The CoinDesk 20” would be a good starting point. It filters from the larger universe of thousands of cryptocurrencies and digital assets to define a core…
