bitcoinPrice.ts
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import axios from 'axios';
import dayjs from 'dayjs';
// Bitcoin price action, last 7 days
export const BitcoinHistoricPriceAction = async () => {
// Request Bitcoin prices
let BITCOIN_PRICE_ENDPOINT = 'https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/bitcoin/market_chart?vs_currency=usd&days=7';
// Setting options for authenticated API call
let options = {
method: "GET",
mode: 'cors', // *cors, same-origin
headers : {
'content-type' : 'application/json',
'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
}
}
// Safely fetching data using Axios, escaping with try-catch block
let response = await axios.get(BITCOIN_PRICE_ENDPOINT, options); // Fetch ERC20 token prices by interval
if (response.status !== 200) {
throw new Error("Could not fetch coin data");
}
else {
// Conditionally send the response and format it conforming to the interval
// Incorporate the dayjs library for easy date formatting
let prices = response.data.prices;
return {
coinPrices: prices.map(price => ({
time: dayjs(price[0]).format('YYYY-MM-DD'),
price: Number(Number(price[1]))
}))
};
}
}