crypto_info: Retrieves info (urls, logo, description, tags, platform, date_added, notice, status,...) on CMC for given id

Description

This code retrieves data for all specified coins!

crypto_info(
  coin_list = NULL,
  limit = NULL,
  requestLimit = 1,
  sleep = 0,
  finalWait = FALSE
)

List of (active and historically existing) cryptocurrencies in a tibble:

id: CMC id (unique identifier)
name: Coin name
symbol: Coin symbol (not-unique)
slug: Coin URL slug (unique)
category: Coin category: "token" or "coin"
description: Coin description according to CMC
logo: CMC url of CC logo
status: Status message from CMC
notice: Markdown formatted notices from CMC
alert_type: Type of alert on CMC
alert_link: Message link to alert
date_added: Date CC was added to the CMC database
date_launched: Date CC was launched
is_audited: Boolean if CC is audited
flags: Boolean flags for various topics
self_reported_circulating_supply: Self reported circulating supply
tags: Tibble of tags and tag categories
faq_description: FAQ description from CMC
url: Tibble of various resource urls. Gives website, technical_doc (whitepaper), source_code, message_board, chat, announcement, reddit, twitter, (block) explorer urls
platform: Metadata about the parent coin if available. Gives id, name, symbol, slug, and token address according to CMC

coin_list: string if NULL retrieve all currently active coins (crypto_list()), or provide list of cryptocurrencies in the crypto_list() or cryptoi_listings() format (e.g. current and/or dead coins since 2015)
limit: integer Return the top n records, default is all tokens
requestLimit: (default: 1) limiting the length of request URLs when bundling the api calls (currently needs to be 1)
sleep: integer (default: 0) Seconds to sleep between API requests
finalWait: to avoid calling the web-api again with another command before 60s are over (FALSE=default)

if (FALSE) {
# return info for bitcoin
coin_info <- crypto_info(limit=10)
}

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