Crypto Price Checker This script demonstrates the power of a clean, simple API. The API it uses—from coingecko —runs over HTTP, so it’s very portable and easy to support.

It’s no secret that I rather enjoy connecting things to the Internet for fun and profit. One of the tricks I’ve learned along the way is to spin up simple APIs that can be used when prototypi… ...

I’ll create a new Python script file called prep_docs.py for this work. I could keep running Python code right within an R script by using the py_run_string() function as I did above.