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Chris Schneider
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Ruby oneliner to get current bitcoin price from coinbase
This was a fun little hack. I wanted to be able to grab the current price off of the exchange I use (coinbase)
require 'json'
require 'open-uri'
JSON.parse(
open("https://www.coinbase.com").
each_line.grep(/window\.exchange/).
first.sub(/.*?=/, '').sub(/;\n$/, '')
)["btc_to_usd"]
# => "843.0"
Granted this will explode hard if their page ever changes. But who cares, took like 5 minutes to write.