The Bitcoin Rate Tracker is a Flask web application or microservice that allows users to track and visualize Bitcoin rates across major currencies. It provides an API for retrieving Bitcoin rates and displaying them in various time ranges.
The project follows the following structure:
tree --dirsfirst --prune -I '*.pyc|__pycache__|data_streaming_client'.
├── data
│ └── bitcoin_rate_tracker.db
├── docs
│ ├── data_retrieval.md
│ └── web_app_api.md
├── src
│ └── data
│ ├── __init__.py
│ ├── etl_client.py
│ └── pre_processor.py
├── tests
│ ├── __init__.py
│ └── test_data_retrieval.py
├── web_app
│ ├── api
│ │ └── routes.py
│ ├── home
│ │ ├── static
│ │ │ ├── highcharts
│ │ │ │ ├── stockchart.js
│ │ │ │ └── wheelchart.js
│ │ │ └── script.js
│ │ ├── templates
│ │ │ ├── highcharts
│ │ │ │ ├── stockchart.html
│ │ │ │ └── wheelchart.html
│ │ │ └── index.html
│ │ └── routes.py
│ ├── static
│ │ ├── favicon.ico
│ │ ├── logo.svg
│ │ └── style.css
│ ├── templates
│ │ └── layout.html
│ └── __init__.py
├── LICENSE
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── config.py
├── requirements.txt
└── wsgi.py
14 directories, 27 files
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To set up the Flask server, edit the config.py file and run the following command on the terminal:
make all