deviatefish / buy-bitcoin

Buys bitcoin with the Coinbase Pro API

buy-bitcoin

Buys bitcoin via the Coinbase Pro API.

Setup

• npm install -g buy-bitcoin
• Generate a Coinbase Pro Api key
• buy-bitcoin --init
• Fill in config.json with your API key details
• buy-bitcoin <amount>

Usage

buy-bitcoin <usd amount>

This simply places a market buy against the BTC-USD pair, purchasing the specified amount of Bitcoin at the current market price.

Applications

Weekly buy:

Schedule a weekly buy with cron! Use the below to buy $100 in Bitcoin every Monday morning at 9:00 AM:

0 9 * * 1 buy-bitcoin 100

Random buy:

Buy whenever! Just run buy-bitcoin 50 to buy $50 of Bitcoin right now.

Change Log

• v0.7.4
  • Updates to match GDAX -> Coinbase Pro name change
  • Basically, swap out api.gdax.com with api.pro.coinbase.com
• v0.7.3
  • Added changelog and tweaked reporting slightly
• v0.7.2
  • Add timestamps to log message
• v0.7.1
  • README fix -- correct usage
• v0.7.0
  • First public version
  • Documentation and configuration changes
• v0.6.0
  • Prototype

buy-bitcoin's Issues

Clarify what <amount> represents

Thanks DeviateFish :)

When you initially type:

buy-bitcoin

Usage:
buy-bitcoin
buys bitcoin via GDAX

Just a recommendation that should be clarified to designate what it represents when you type buy-bitcoin into terminal: is this in USD or BTC?