So I've woken up and the bitcoin price, as per, has made a large move. Now I want to check the value of my cryptocurrency investments. This is my current method:
I think because its relatively easy to check the balance for each account, limited work has been done to create a collective account overview application. The way things are going, the number of currencies and applications I use is only going to increase and I feel like I need a better way to get to grips with my investments.
The goal of today's programming will be to create an open source python script to get the balance from the various wallets and apps that I use. Creating an open source project will hopefully result in other people to adding their own methods for different projects so the app can have a broader scope.
Although today this will just be a simple python API calling script, this could be deployed as a web app service to serve phone apps or websites in the future. Allowing you to conveniently get a detailed overview of your investments without having to spend half an hour on excel.
This should be able to be automated easily because all of the services have good APIs - apart from perhaps TenX. Unfortunately the TenX app does not seem to update the wallet when transactions are performed so I can't just use a general blockchain API. For BTC and LTC wallets I think I should be able to use an API like blockchain.info and the exchanges have decent, if not always accessible, APIs.
If you know of any projects that are similar to this or can share any advice about what I'm doing, please post in the comments. If you'd like to help develop I'll be posting github links in the next project update so feel free to follow for updates and other related posts.
Thanks for reading! More updates to come.
