This repository contains codes to download codes of cryptrocurrencies from website CoinMarketCap.com and the source codes of all coins crawled before.
This is the code to get the latest version of all existing cryptocurrencies on CoinMarketCap.com. To access the historical snapshots, please go to https://github.com/island255/GetHistoryofCoins.
The snapshots of altcoins on 28 March 2018 and 28 September 2018 can be assessd through https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SUwkXRbFNfpO_I46Br_k-SXpF_4edK_D.
We use bs4 to crwal GitHub links of altcoins from wesite CoinMarketCap and repo links from GitHub. However, it doesn't alaways work when the website changes its codes. We recommend to use API of CoinMarketCap and GitHub to get a stable access.
To site our paper, please use the followibg format:
Ang Jia, Ming Fan, Xi Xu, Di Cui, Wenying Wei, Zijiang Yang, Kai Ye, and Ting liu. 2020. From Innovations to Prospects: What Is Hidden Behind Cryptocurrencies?. In 17th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR ’20), October 5–6, 2020, Seoul, Republic of Korea. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3379597.3387439