🪙 Real-Time Bitcoin Price & Volume Tracker 📊

This Python project fetches and visualizes real-time Bitcoin (BTC-USD) price and volume data using the yfinance API. It provides a clear visual representation of Bitcoin's 1-minute interval price trends and trading volumes, ideal for analysts, crypto enthusiasts, and developers exploring financial data visualization.

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🔍 Features

• ✅ Fetches real-time BTC-USD data (1-minute interval) from Yahoo Finance
• ✅ Displays current Bitcoin price with timestamp
• ✅ Prints the latest Open, High, Low, Close, Volume data
• ✅ Generates:
  • 📈 Line chart of closing prices
  • 📊 Bar chart of trading volume
• ✅ Auto-cleans data (removes nulls, formats timestamps)
• ✅ Custom matplotlib x-axis formatting (HH:MM view)
• ✅ Ready to run in VS Code or terminal

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🛠️ Technologies Used

• Python 3.7+
• yfinance – for fetching BTC-USD data
• pandas – for data manipulation
• matplotlib – for plotting
• datetime – for formatting timestamps
• warnings – for suppressing irrelevant warnings

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Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt python bitcoin_tracker.py

real-time-bitcoin-tracker/ ├── bitcoin_tracker.py # Main Python script ├── README.md # Project overview ├── requirements.txt # Python dependencies ├── .gitignore # Git ignored files ├── LICENSE # MIT License └── screenshot/ └── sample.png # Screenshot of running tracker

📄 License This project is licensed under the MIT License - free to use and modify.

🤝 Contributing Contributions are welcome! Open an issue or submit a pull request with improvements or new features.

🙋‍♂️ Author Akhilesh Yadav 📍 Data Science Student | Python Developer 📫 GitHub: @Akhilesh-yadav680

🌐 Useful Links Yahoo Finance - https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/

https://matplotlib.org/stable/index.html