TODOs

• send data to SQL DB as well
• preform historical analysis on numbers(N day moving average)

Function Descriptions from getCoinPrice.py

parse( s )

• extract the price from the string
• given pattern '1\s([A-Z]{3})\s=\s(([0-9]|,|.)*)'
• matches:
  • the number one
  • exactly 3 capitalized chars as capture group 1
  • " " (space) (\s is the whitespace meta character)
  • the equal sign
  • " " (space)
  • "take as many digits, commas, and dot"

get_link_price( link, content )

• link contains the constructed the attribute values
• the 'a' or anchor tag has an href attribute of the value... 'comparison/bitcoin-price.html'
• content.find_all()
  • find all the HTML element with the same name and attributes log the raw text between the tags > ...raw text... <

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Scheduled Tasks:

• call getCoinPrice once an hour
• push getCoinPrice log to git once a day
• re-run viz with new data once a day(use custom get git file)

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launchctl notes

https://launchd.info/

$ launchctl load CryptoStream.plist

$ launchctl start CryptoStream.plist

$ launchctl list |awk '/Crypto/ || NR == 1'
PID	Status	Label
578	0	com.apple.CryptoTokenKit.ahp.agent
-	0	CryptoStream

$ launchctl list CryptoStream
{
	"LimitLoadToSessionType" = "Aqua";
	"Label" = "CryptoStream";
	"OnDemand" = true;
	"LastExitStatus" = 0;
	"Program" = "/usr/local/bin/python3";
	"ProgramArguments" = (
		"/usr/local/bin/python3";
		"/Users/g_joss/Documents/Computation/getCoinPrice/getCoinPrice.py";
	);
};

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