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Hands-On Bitcoin Programming with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789537000
Length 90 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Harish Garg Harish Garg
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Triggering the bitcoin trade advice alert

In order to setup the bitcoin trade advice alert, go through the following steps:

  1. First, start by importing the bitcoin price API, called exchanges:
#!/usr/bin/python

# import modules
# Make sure to copy the exchanges from https://github.com/dursk/bitcoin-price-api
# to the same location as this script
from exchanges.bitfinex import Bitfinex
  1. Also import smtplib, which we will use for triggering the bitcoin price alert. Here, we define a function called trigger_email. We then set the server user and email details:
import smtplib

# Function to send email
def trigger_email(msg):
# Change these to your email details
email_user = "bitcoin.harish@gmail.com"
email_password = "bitcoin1"
smtp_server = 'smtp.gmail.com'
smtp_port = 587
email_from = "bitcoin.harish@gmail.com"
email_to = "bitcoin.harish@gmail...
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