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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon miohtama

Support for altcoins

Open omnidan opened this issue 10 years ago • 6 comments

I know this isn't something you can easily implement because the https://bitcoinaverage.com/ API does not support altcoins like Litecoin. I would still like to have this feature though, so I'm reporting this here. There might be an additional API that supports conversion from BTC to LTC via javascript.

omnidan avatar Dec 21 '13 14:12 omnidan

As bitcoinaverage.com is open source (hosted on Github) you can most likely retrofit their API to pull Altcoin data from cryptsy.com and such?

miohtama avatar Dec 29 '13 00:12 miohtama

Sorry for the late response. If I did that, I'd have to host my version of bitcoinaverage on my own server, which I don't really want. I could send a pull request, but I doubt the point of bitcoinaverage is support of altcoins. I'm just wondering if it would make sense to have it in this plugin, if not, I'll (additionally to using bitcoin-prices) use a different plugin or make calls to a different API for altcoin support.

omnidan avatar Jan 09 '14 19:01 omnidan

Ok. Where would you pull the info? Let's change the code a bit, it is easier to map other data format backends.

miohtama avatar Jan 10 '14 07:01 miohtama

Also see the sister project I started recently (no release yet) https://github.com/miohtama/bitcoinaddress.js#demos

miohtama avatar Jan 10 '14 08:01 miohtama

The cryptsy API would be an idea to pull it from. I'm using your plugin for https://github.com/omnidan/coffeedonate by the way, and it would be nice to have litecoin and/or quark there.

omnidan avatar Jan 11 '14 16:01 omnidan

Here is nice setup for a LTC/BTC that you can integrate...

http://jsfiddle.net/P2t9R/236/

geopayme avatar Apr 18 '15 17:04 geopayme