[Steempy v0.0.4] A Steem Price Bot written in Python

Steempy is now displaying the percentage changed whenever the price moves!

As promised, I updated Steempy in version 0.0.4 to be able to display the percentage changed between price changes along with the already implemented, amount changed which is displayed in bitcoin. This was a pretty implementation, that shouldn't have taken as long as it has but, hey. I'm a human, not a highly dedicated price bot like Steempy.

Steempy also got a few bugs squashed

Although, it was nothing major, I changed the way Steempy spits out his information to be a little easier on the eyes, and not so "cluttered." This makes looking at the price movements a breeze. Another, issue that I was having was how Steempy would start off with a really low value as a placeholder, which would, upon starting Steempy report a significant price increase. This was rectified by using a IF statement to check if Steempy's ```coin_price``` was empty, and if it was, it appends the current steem price into it, which always happens upon starting up Steempy. As always, if you ever notice a bug I missed, leave a comment!

New features in the future?

I plan to add some new information/data to Steempy's brain. That data will most likely be steem trading volume but, i'm not entirely sure what I want to have him do with that data. I'm trying to think of another use other than reiterating what i did with the steem price. Any suggestions would be great!

You're probably thinking  "Source C0d3 Pl0X"  well here you go

# Steempy v0.0.4.0 is a bot that monitors the CryptoCompare API  

# Bug fixes: issue with starting value in coin_price

# New for v0.0.4: Added percent of price change, formatted,

#  the way information is displayed, a bit cleaner than v0.0.3

from decimal import Decimal

import requests

import time

url = "https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data/histominute?fsym=STEEM&tsym=BTC&limit=1&aggregate=0&e=CCCAGG"

coin_price = []

# Gets the percentage changed between two prices, returns ints

def PercentChange(previous,current):

 if previous == current or previous == 0 or current == 0:

     return 0

 else:

     return ((current-previous)/previous)*100

print("Steempy v0.0.4. Programmed by vidallia.")

print("Feel free modify the code to suit your needs.")

while True:

 print("Sleeping...")

 time.sleep(5)

 minutechart = requests.get(url).json()

 # list indexing from multiple nested lists/dicts

 a = minutechart['Data'][-1]['close']

 if len(coin_price) == 0: coin_price.append(a)

 coin_price.append(a)

 b = coin_price[0]

 if a > b:

     diff = Decimal(a) - Decimal(b)

     print("(+)Increase of: {:.7f}.\n\t+{:.4f}% Change. ".format(

     diff,PercentChange(b,a)))

     coin_price.pop(0)

     print("Current price: {}".format(coin_price))

 elif a < b:

     diff = Decimal(b) - Decimal(a)

     print("(-)Decrease of: {:.7f}.\n\t{:.4f}% Change.".format(

     diff,PercentChange(b,a)))

     coin_price.pop(0)

     print("Current price: {}".format(coin_price))

 else:

     coin_price.pop(0)

     print("Current Price: {} ".format(coin_price))

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