crypto-ticker

Live crypto prices in your terminal. Refreshes every 15s.

              Crypto Ticker — 14:32:08
┌──────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────┬──────────────┐
│ Asset    │        Price │          24h │   Volume │   Market Cap │
├──────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────┼──────────────┤
│ BITCOIN  │   $67,842.50 │  ▲ +2.14%    │  $28.4B  │     $1.34T   │
│ ETHEREUM │    $3,421.18 │  ▼ -0.85%    │  $14.2B  │   $412.80B   │
│ SOLANA   │      $142.87 │  ▲ +5.22%    │   $3.8B  │    $65.40B   │
│ LITECOIN │       $72.15 │  ▼ -1.10%    │ $485.2M  │     $5.42B   │
│ DOGECOIN │     $0.1420  │  ▲ +0.44%    │   $1.1B  │    $20.60B   │
│ RIPPLE   │     $0.5891  │  ▲ +1.20%    │   $1.8B  │    $32.10B   │
└──────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────┴──────────────┘

Install

git clone https://github.com/starkdcc/crypto-ticker.git
cd crypto-ticker
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python ticker.py                      # default watchlist
python ticker.py btc eth sol          # custom coins
python ticker.py --once               # print once, exit
python ticker.py -i 5 btc eth         # refresh every 5s

Supported shortcuts

btc, eth, sol, ltc, doge, xrp, ada, dot, link, matic, bnb, usdt, usdc, shib, avax

Or use full CoinGecko IDs: python ticker.py arbitrum optimism

How it works

• Pulls live prices from CoinGecko (no API key needed)
• Renders with Rich for clean terminal output
• 24h change color-coded (green up, red down)

License

MIT