ubryce / blockchain-whale-alert

A twitter bot that tweets whenever transactions above $1 000 000 USD are made. Using python.

Blockchain-Whale-Alert

A twitter bot that tweets whenever transactions above $1 000 000 USD are made on the blockchain.

Link to twitter: https://twitter.com/Whale_Alerts

API

This uses two API libraries, one for the Blockchain and the other for twitter, to find the transactions that are larger than $1 million USD and get all the details on that transaction, then tweet them accordingly.

API's

1. Blockchain Transactions: https://docs.whale-alert.io/?_ga=2.164120636.2088609985.1573353112-1189581535.1573353112#introduction
2. Twitter: https://developer.twitter.com/en.html

What I learned

• How to work with API's and what they are
• How to work with JSON files
• Working with transactions on the blockchain and find the ones that were over $1 million USD with the details of that transaction
• How to use the twitter API to post certain information given from transactions

Terminology

"Whale" - big money cryptocurrency players

"Blockchain" - record of transactions aka Digital Ledger