Request .get how to use a string as a parameter

Question

I believe it may have something to do with the **kwarg param but I have no idea how to work with that,

To specify I am trying to use the Binanace rest API to simply get the avg price for an altcoin and I can not understand how to specify which ticker to look at

Link to the specific code I’m trying to work https://github.com/binance-exchange/binance-official-api-docs/blob/master/rest-api.md#current-average-price

Any answers would be appreciated I’m sure it will all be the same but I’m looking for the answer in python

Code:

binance = "https://api.binance.com"

print(requests.get(binance + "/api/v1/ticker/24hr", "BTC"))

Output:

Status code [400]

Expected [BTC price avg for the last 24 hour (or any numbers really)]

 "mins": 5,
 "price": "9.35751834"
 / or some equivalent

But despite me trying that and failing i am unable how to understand this api for what ever reason, i used just one before so eh,

i tried

print( binance + " /api/v3/ticker/price" )

Output:

Status code[200]

i understand that this is an success message but i do know know to how to access the data,

anyhelp would be appreciated thanks

Hi, and welcome to stack overflow. It's common to post your code that didn't work, or more precisely a minimal example that reproduces the error, and say what result you expected. — Itamar Mushkin, Jul 16 '19 at 07:01
Alright thank you for the input i will repost the question correctly — will floyd, Jul 21 '19 at 22:07
I think it'll be more convenient to you to edit the existing question instead of posting a new one — Itamar Mushkin, Jul 22 '19 at 05:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '19 at 07:16

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As per documentation on GitHub, you need to make a GET request with string parameter 'symbol'.
Try this code:

import requests
binance = "https://api.binance.com"
avg_price = "/api/v3/avgPrice"

response = requests.get(binance + avg_price + "?symbol=LTCBTC")
print(response.text)

This should get you output like below:

{"mins":5,"price":"0.00918091"}

answered Jul 24 '19 at 07:16

Kamal

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Thank you for your answer you gave me exactly what i was looking for. Looking back now my question had two parts, and i will clarify for my self or anyone who looks back at the question [1.] Once i got the status code 200, (which means everything was successful) it comes WITH information, I need to access that infomation This is done so by ".text" to the response [2.] To put in paramiters into (at least this specific api, maybe more) is done so by "?[parameter name]= infomation" Thanks for your help, and i hope i personally helped anyone else as well – will floyd Jul 25 '19 at 23:31
and also all this is pointless with the JSON module which is what i did last time – will floyd Jul 26 '19 at 01:10

Request .get how to use a string as a parameter

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