Bitcoin Price API - Ruby Gem

Bitcoin Price is a simple tool for getting the current price of Bitcoin. It returns the current price, market cap, 24-hour trading volume, and 24-hour price change in any currency.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'apiverve_bitcoin'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install apiverve_bitcoin

Getting Started

Get your API key at APIVerve

Basic Usage

require 'apiverve_bitcoin'

# Initialize the client
client = APIVerve::Bitcoin::Client.new(api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY")

# Make a request
response = client.execute({
  currency: "USD",
  hourly: true
})

# Print the response
puts response

Error Handling

begin
  response = client.execute({ currency: "USD", hourly: true })
  puts response["data"]
rescue APIVerve::Bitcoin::ValidationError => e
  puts "Validation error: #{e.errors.join(', ')}"
rescue APIVerve::Bitcoin::APIError => e
  puts "API error: #{e.message}"
  puts "Status code: #{e.status_code}"
end

Debug Mode

# Enable debug logging
client = APIVerve::Bitcoin::Client.new(
  api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  debug: true
)

Example Response

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "currency": "USD",
    "price": 97250.43,
    "marketCap": 1928000000000,
    "volume24h": 35420000000,
    "change24h": -1.52,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-02-07T12:00:00.000Z",
    "high24h": 98750.21,
    "low24h": 96125.88,
    "changeDirection": "down",
    "formatted": {
      "price": "$97,250.43",
      "marketCap": "$1.93T",
      "volume": "$35.42B",
      "priceWords": "ninety-seven thousand two hundred fifty dollars"
    }
  }
}

Documentation

For more information, visit the API Documentation.

Support

License

This gem is available under the MIT License.