Scraping Historical Cryptocurrency Prices [Python Beautiful Soup & Selenium Tutorial]

In this python tutorial video, we show you how you can scrape historical data for a cryptocurrency of your choice using beautifulsoup and selenium, from coinmarketcap. We capture all of the data going back as far as they have it and then automatically save it into a csv, all with python. Web scraping work with python is often times such an important early stage need for any sort of data analysis pipeline that you may have, and automated trading systems are no different.

You could use the data after scraping it, to attempt to train a predictive model for a cryptocurrency trading bot (crypto arbitrage anyone?). If you build your model properly, you may even have an improved chance at predicting future crypto prices (sounds like magic I know).
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[tarun]

I am trying to scrape yahoo finance. Your method works perfectly fine but the csv file only saves data upto 101 rows. How do we increase the row size to indefinite?

[maystephens]

Just a thought, could HasData help in scraping historical crypto prices instead of using Selenium?

[sunil]

Hello there. Great video . How can you run this python selenium script daily at let's say 3 PM to do some tasks . Can we schedule it on a windows server and let is run ?

[raphaelortiz]

Hi does this still work? Or has CMC walled this data off?

[MdBahauddinZakaria]

Prerequisite of this video?I only know basics of python.