btcl
Follow Bitcoin markets from your terminal.
btcl is a cli for retrieving Bitcoin prices from your command-line instantly. You can choose to get the top market or retrieve a single price quote with the exchange symbol from bitcoincharts.
$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0
Install
Install via rubygems
$ gem install btcl
Install via Docker
$ docker build -t btcl github.com/hack-parthsharma/btcl
$ docker run btcl
Usage
Retrieve the prices from the top exchanges.
$ btcl
Quickly retrieve the ask price from a single exchange. The first argument is the symbol used on bitcoincharts.com (see all market symbols at bitcoincharts.com/markets/).
$ btcl mtgoxUSD
847.0
Get more prices.
$ btcl mtgoxUSD --verbose
or
$ btcl mtgoxUSD -v