Added simple Flask api to kraken_fetch.py.

.gitignore

@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 *.db
 *.log
+*/__pycache__/*

btc_tracker/kraken_fetch.py

@@ -4,8 +4,16 @@ import krakenex
 import json, sqlite3
 import requests, os, time
 import threading
+from flask import Flask, request
 
 database = "btc_ohlc.db"
+app = Flask(__name__)
+
+database_lock = threading.Lock()
+
+# Empty response json
+empty_dict = {"exchange": "", "timestamp": 0, "open": 0, "high": 0, "low": 0, "close": 0, "volume_quote": 0, "volume_base": 0, "trades": 0}
+empty_json = json.dumps(empty_dict)
 
 def Checkthedatabase():
   ## Some sanity for the database
@@ -29,7 +37,7 @@ def Checkthedatabase():
     db.commit()
     db.close()
   
-  db = sqlite3.connect("database")
+  db = sqlite3.connect(database)
   
   # Check if the table exists
   table_exists = False
@@ -184,30 +192,44 @@ def get_the_data():
     write_dict_to_database(json.loads(fetch_bitstamp()), db)
     write_dict_to_database(json.loads(fetch_gemini()), db)
     db.close()
+    print("fetches done at", time.time(), "sleeping now for 290")
     time.sleep(290)
  
+@app.route('/')
+def get_data():
+  # Get the time (t) argument from the url"
+  query_timestamp = request.args.get('t')
+  query_pretty = request.args.get('pretty')
   
-Checkthedatabase()
-
-# Empty response json
-empty_dict = {"exchange": "", "timestamp": 0, "open": 0, "high": 0, "low": 0, "close": 0, "volume_quote": 0, "volume_base": 0, "trades": 0}
-empty_json = json.dumps(empty_dict)
-
-database_lock = threading.Lock()
-# make this run in thread and allow contium to http api stuff
-fetch_thread = threading.Thread(target=get_the_data)
-fetch_thread.daemon = True
-fetch_thread.start()
-
-db = sqlite3.connect(database)
-count = 1
-while True:
-  if count % 10 == 0:
-    print("------- status ", count, "-------")
-    top2_rows = db.execute("SELECT * FROM ohlc LIMIT 2 OFFSET (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ohlc) - 2").fetchall()
-    print(json.dumps(top2_rows, indent=4))
+  database_lock.acquire() 
+  db = sqlite3.connect(database)
+  if query_timestamp:
+    rows = db.execute("SELECT exchange, timestamp, open, high, low, close FROM ohlc WHERE timestamp > ?", (query_timestamp,)).fetchall()
   else:
-    output = str(count) + ".. "
-    print(output, end = '\r')
-  count = count + 1
-  time.sleep(30)
+    rows = db.execute('SELECT exchange, timestamp, open, high, low, close FROM ohlc').fetchall()
+    query_timestamp = 0
+
+  database_lock.release()
+  data = { 
+          "timestamp": time.time(),
+          "rows": rows 
+          }
+
+  if query_pretty:
+      response = json.dumps(data, indent=2, separators=(';\n', ' :'))
+  else:
+    response = json.dumps(data)
+  
+  return response, 200, {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  # Make sanity checks for the database
+  Checkthedatabase()
+
+  # Start the data fetching backend process
+  fetch_thread = threading.Thread(target=get_the_data)
+  fetch_thread.daemon = True
+  fetch_thread.start()
+  
+  # Start the Flask app
+  app.run()