CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index API for PHP

This is a simple composer package that implements CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index API for PHP.

Requirements

• PHP 7 with curl and json extensions enabled

Installation

composer require kristapsk/php-coindesk-api

Or just copy src/BPI.php to your project, it has no other dependencies.

Usage

In all examples last parameter of methods called specifies currency. Supported currencies are EUR, GBP and USD. It can be ommited, will default to USD.

Get current Bitcoin price

use kristapsk\CoinDesk\BPI;

// returns float or null on failure
var_dump(BPI::currentPrice('EUR'));

Get historical Bitcoin prices

use kristapsk\CoinDesk\BPI;

// returns array with Y-m-d format date string as key and float price as value
// or null on failure
var_dump(BPI::historical(strtotime('2021-03-01'), strtotime('2021-03-16'), 'EUR'));

License

This package is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.

Disclaimer

This project is not in any way affiliated with CoinDesk.