| name | tracking-crypto-prices |
| description | Track real-time cryptocurrency prices across exchanges with historical data and alerts.
Provides price data infrastructure for dependent skills (portfolio, tax, DeFi, arbitrage).
Use when checking crypto prices, monitoring markets, or fetching historical price data.
Trigger with phrases like "check price", "BTC price", "crypto prices", "price history",
"get quote for", "what's ETH trading at", "show me top coins", or "track my watchlist".
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| allowed-tools | Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash(python:*) |
| version | 1.27.0 |
| author | Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io> |
| license | MIT |
| tags | ["crypto","monitoring","tracking-crypto"] |
| compatibility | Designed for Claude Code, also compatible with Codex and OpenClaw |
Tracking Crypto Prices
Contents
Overview | Prerequisites | Instructions | Output | Error Handling | Examples | Resources
Overview
Foundation skill providing real-time and historical cryptocurrency price data for 10,000+ coins. This is the data layer for the crypto plugin ecosystem -- 10+ other skills depend on it for price information.
Prerequisites
- Install dependencies:
pip install requests pandas yfinance
- Optional:
pip install python-dotenv for API key management
- Optional: Get free API key from https://www.coingecko.com/en/api for higher rate limits
- Add API key to
${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/config/settings.yaml or set COINGECKO_API_KEY env var
Instructions
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Check current prices for one or more symbols:
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --symbol BTC
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --symbols BTC,ETH,SOL
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Use watchlists to scan predefined groups (available: top10, defi, layer2, stablecoins, memecoins):
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --watchlist top10
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --watchlist defi
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --watchlist layer2
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Fetch historical data by period or custom date range:
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --symbol BTC --period 30d
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --symbol BTC --period 90d --output csv
python ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/price_tracker.py --symbol ETH --start 2024-01-01 --end 2024-12-31