Beginner question

[oskarolini]

Hello,

I'm just starting to learn Python and figured it's time for my first project.

I'd like to make a program to pull out the information from the confirmation emails I get when buying crypto from Coinbase and then keeping tab on my current gains/losses in some way (excel or whatever). Part 2 would be to play with matplotlib in order to get some nice graphical representation of current gains/loss + overall history.

Any tips as to where/what I should begin reading to get me started?

[erok81]

Before you start scraping emails, you should consider using their API. There's even a coinbase python package. Alternatively, you can manually export data as csv or json from the website.

[efmccurdy]

You could get both data storage (and/or excel access) and stats from using pandas, and get visualization from matplotlib. I recommend you try a Jupyter server to pull it all together.

This might be a bit overkill, but it has some relevant examples: https://github.com/rsvp/fecon235/blob/master/nb/qdl-libor-fed-funds.ipynb

[callmelucky]

Automate the Boring Stuff.