想要通过 Coinbase API 的 Python 请求模块获得简单的比特币报价

Question

I want to make a simple Bitcoin Price request via Python requests module from Coinbase API

I can get the request to work in Postman hitting this URL: https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/:BTC-USD/spot Included two headers: "api_key": "xxx", "a": "BTC"

However the following Python code produces and error:

from datetime import datetime
import requests
# Make an API call to Coinbase and store the response
url = 'https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/:BTC-USD/spot'
headers = {
            'Accept': "*/*",
            "api_key":  "xxx",
            "a": "BTC"
            }
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(f"Status code: {r.status_code}")

# Store API response in a variable.
response_dict = r.json()
print(response_dict)

This is the error returned:

Status code: 404
{'errors': [{'id': 'not_found', 'message': 'Invalid base currency'}]}

Any help is appreciated. Thank you,

Answer 1

Assuming what you typed above is your actual code, then the error generated is correct. You have asked for crypto code :BTC and not BTC. Remove the colon and your code should work.