scraper: Historical table scraper

In heguevel/Crypto: Cryptocurrency Market Data

Description

This web scrapes the historic price tables from CoinMarketCap and provides back a dataframe for the coin provided as an input. This function is a dependency of getCoins and is used as part of a loop to retrieve all crypto currencies.

Usage

scraper(attributes, slug, sleep = NULL)

Arguments

attributes	URL generated from listCoins()
slug	Unique identifier required for merging
sleep	Duration to sleep to resolve rate limiter

Value

Raw OHLC market data in a dataframe:

slug	Coin url slug
symbol	Coin symbol
name	Coin name
date	Market date
open	Market open
high	Market high
low	Market low
close	Market close
volume	Volume 24 hours
market	USD Market cap

heguevel/Crypto documentation built on July 24, 2020, 12:25 a.m.