gistfile1.txt

#!/usr/bin/python

'''
1. put this in your $PATH
2. create a crontab that runs it every x minutes and writes the output to a file

for example:

$ crontab -e
* * * * * ~/btc.py > ~/btcprice

3. set your shell prompt to include the first line of this file
'''

import requests
import json
import sys
import datetime

req = requests.get('https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/sell')
req = json.loads(req.text)
print req['data']['amount']
print datetime.datetime.now()