py-crypto-api

Super simple Python API for fetching cryptocurrency exchange rate via Google Search.
Written with FastAPI and scraping via BeautifulSoup4.

Installation

Firstly you need to install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt.
To host API you need to run it with uvicorn --reload main:app (the default port is 8000).
(the --reload switch is optional)

Testing and development was taken on Python 3.10.

Usage

URL	Description	Output
localhost:8000/v1/{query}	Replace {query} with search phrase, for e.g. "1 btc to usd"	Outputs JSON formatted response e.g. {"amount":"9.9"} where 9.9 is amount of USD for 1 Bitcoin
localhost:8000/v2/?crypto={value}&currency={value}	Replace {value} correspondingly to query params	Outputs JSON formatted response e.g. {"amount":"9.9"} where 9.9 is amount of provided currency for 1 coin of provided cryptocurrency

You can use Swagger UI to visualize everything via localhost:8000/docs