Price alert app

Introduction

The Price Alert App is a Django application designed to send email alerts when the Bitcoin (BTC) price hits a specified target value. This application uses the Pyth Network API to fetch the latest BTC price and allows users to set their alert preferences via a web interface.

Features

• Fetches real-time BTC prices from the Pyth Network API.
• Allows users to set target BTC prices and receive email alerts when the target price is reached.
• Web interface for setting up and managing alerts.

Requirements

Python Django requests django-environ SQLite django-cron redis

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/irushub/alert_app
cd alert_app

2. Migrate the database:

python manage.py migrate

3. Start the Redis and Django development server:

Start redis server
redis-server

Ping the redis server to check whether its online
ping redis-cli

Start the Django development server
python manage.py runserver

4. Start the Django CRON Job:

python manage.py runcrons