btc-trck - A simple BTC Price Tracking Tool - ₿

Bitcoin price tracker with terminal charts - Because checking prices every 5 minutes is totally normal.

Track BTC prices and 30-day charts right in your terminal. Multiple currencies, multiple APIs, color-coded charts. No GUI needed! No shitcoins supported!

Features

• 🔥 Real-time prices in EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, and more
• 📊 ASCII charts showing 30-day price history
• 🎨 Color-coded - green above average, red below average
• 🔄 Multiple APIs with auto-fallback (CoinDesk, Binance, CoinGecko)
• ⚙️ Configurable - set your preferred currency and API
• 🔑 API key support for higher rate limits

Installation

Quick Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/LizardKing00/btc-trck/main/install.sh | bash

Manual Install

git clone https://github.com/LizardKing00/btc-trck/.git
cd btc-trck
bash install.sh

Dependencies

• curl and jq (installer checks and guides you)

Usage

# Current price
btc-trck

# Price with 30-day chart
btc-trck --plot

# Configuration
btc-trck --config
btc-trck --config.currency "USD"
btc-trck --config.api coindesk

Example Output

Current Bitcoin Price
€92841.78
Data from Binance

Bitcoin Price Chart (Last 30 Days)
Price Range: €87681 - €96513
30 days average: €91647.18
Historical data from CoinGecko
€ 96513            ****                                             
€ 96071            ||||                                             
€ 95630            ||||                                             
€ 95188            ||||                                             
€ 94747            ||||                                             
€ 94305            ||||**                                           
€ 93863            ||||||                                           
€ 93422            ||||||                                           
€ 92980            ||||||                                          *
€ 92539 *      ****||||||        **                        **      |
€ 92097 |      ||||||||||        ||                        ||    **|
€ 91655 |**  **||||||||||  **    ||                ****  **||    |||
€ 91214 |||  ||||||||||||**||****||****          **||||**||||    |||
€ 90772 |||  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||**      **||||||||||||**  |||
€ 90331 |||  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||      ||||||||||||||||  |||
€ 89889 |||  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||      ||||||||||||||||  |||
€ 89447 |||  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||**    ||||||||||||||||**|||
€ 89006 |||  ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||    |||||||||||||||||||||
€ 88564 |||**||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||    |||||||||||||||||||||
€ 88123 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||**  |||||||||||||||||||||
€ 87681 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||**|||||||||||||||||||||
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        Days ago

Configuration

Settings stored in ~/.config/btc-trck/config:

• Currency: EUR, USD, GBP, JPY, etc.
• API: coindesk, binance, coingecko, or auto-fallback
• API Keys: Optional, for higher rate limits

Troubleshooting

# Debug mode
DEBUG=1 btc-trck

# Common issues
sudo apt install curl jq  # Ubuntu/Debian
brew install curl jq      # macOS

License

Unlicence

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Not financial advice. Just a CLI app for terminally online BTC maximalists.