names vs symbols

[borgr]

I can't understand from the API how to get conversions. do I have to supply the full name of the coin to get it? why is the difference between the ids and the vs? e.g. what do I need to get cg.get_price(ids="xrp", vs_currencies="eur") ? and is it true cg.get_price(ids="eur", vs_currencies="xrp") is against the APIs logic in some hidden way?

[man-c]

Hi!

The ids refers to the coins that you want to obtain the current price. You can see the list of the supported coins by the API using the coins/list endpoint (cg.get_coins_list()). The list returned by this endpoint contains the id, symbol and name for each supported coin. For the cg.get_price() you need to provide the id of the coins.

vs_currency is the currency of the current coin price that is returned by the cg.get_price(). The list of the supported currencies by the API can be obtained using the simple/supported_vs_currencies endpoint (cg.get_supported_vs_currencies()).

To get the price (in eur) for XRP you need to run cg.get_price(ids='ripple', vs_currencies='eur'), since XRP in CoinGecko's coins list (coins/list: cg.get_coins_list()) is defined as {'id': 'ripple', 'symbol': 'xrp', 'name': 'XRP'}. Similarly, you can find other coins in the coins/list: cg.get_coins_list().

Also, you can find more info in API's documentation: https://www.coingecko.com/en/api

[yjlolo]

Thanks for the handy wrapper. I tried to use cg.get_coins_list() to first identify the index of a given input symbol, and map the symbol to the id. However, with multiple queries of input symbols, this conversion calls cg.get_coins_list() multiple times which easily runs into the following error:

    HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
    /var/folders/ql/gwfz_8rd7j9c79vjyqhgxp6c0000gn/T/ipykernel_6924/3259795063.py in <module>
          1 input_symbol = 'rgt'
    ----> 2 supported_symbols = [d['symbol'] for d in cg.get_coins_list()]
          3 try:
          4     idx = supported_symbols.index(input_symbol)
          5 except ValueError:

    ~/Documents/projects/token-val/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pycoingecko/utils.py in input_args(*args, **kwargs)
         10         args = [arg_preprocessing(v) for v in args]
         11 
    ---> 12         return func(*args, **kwargs)
         13 
         14     return input_args

    ~/Documents/projects/token-val/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pycoingecko/api.py in get_coins_list(self, **kwargs)
        118         api_url = self.__api_url_params(api_url, kwargs)
        119 
    --> 120         return self.__request(api_url)
        121 
        122     @func_args_preprocessing

    ~/Documents/projects/token-val/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pycoingecko/api.py in __request(self, url)
         27 
         28         try:
    ---> 29             response.raise_for_status()
         30             content = json.loads(response.content.decode('utf-8'))
         31             return content

    ~/Documents/projects/token-val/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py in raise_for_status(self)
        951 
        952         if http_error_msg:
    --> 953             raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
        954 
        955     def close(self):

    HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/list

Is there any way to get around this issue, or is there any function we can use to map the input symbol to id without using cg.get_coins_list()?

[man-c]

Hello! You should try to keep somewhere more permanent the list (in example in a variable) in order to reuse it, instead of requesting the list for every input_symbol. Cheers,