A simple Python script that queries the Bitstamp API every 5 seconds and prints the last USD/Bitcoin price to the shell. Requires the Python Requests library.

bitcoinShellTicker.py

# /usr/bin/python3
import requests
import json
from time import sleep


def getBitcoinPrice():
    URL = "https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/"
    try:
        r = requests.get(URL)
        priceFloat = float(json.loads(r.text)["last"])
        return priceFloat
    except requests.ConnectionError:
        print("Error querying Bitstamp API")


while True:
    print("Bitstamp last price: $" + str(getBitcoinPrice()) + "/BTC")
    sleep(5)

I made a similar script myself. Both yours and mine fail to obtain data from the website. Any clue why? (That happens when I run code on py desktop from a file but it retrieves it if I run it in debugger or on repl.it.)

@namedTim
thats interesting. Can u open the url in the Browser? Is there an error code? do u installed the module? is script correct formatted?

@Smugmug24 I found the error. Orange/anaconda was messing with the path and so my script was calling python but not the real one (i don't know how to explain this) but Atom editor was detecting the right one.
SOLUTION: I just refreshed the default way you open .pyw and .py files in Windows.

@namedTim
nice :)

Python 3 Version

#/usr/bin/python3
import requests, json
from time import sleep

def getBitcoinPrice():
    URL = 'https://www.bitstamp.net/api/ticker/'
    try:
        r = requests.get(URL)
        priceFloat = float(json.loads(r.text)['last'])
        return priceFloat
    except requests.ConnectionError:
        print("Error querying Bitstamp API")

while True:
	print("Bitstamp last price: $" + str(getBitcoinPrice()) + "/BTC")
        sleep(5)