In this video you will learn how to connect Excel to Coinmarketcap data. First we will look at using the API to connect to live ticker data. Then we look connect to a historic table on the coinmarketcap website to gather historic cryptocoin pricing and volume data.
If you are new to Power Query in Excel (Get and transform data in excel 16) this video is a great example of how you can connect to an api and transform the data to a usable format
The API used is https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/
and for the historic prices we will look at the coins STEEM and BITCOIN
This can be used to create a crypto currency excel tracker that will auto update. Follow me to see how you can use this data to create your own cryptocurrency holding dashboard in Excel
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