The story behind wallagg.com

After compleating the python "Bootcamp" I was incentivised to make a project to continue my development as a programmer. The tutor was specific about one thing - that you have to be genuinely interested in the project you are about to build, therefore you will get the drive and motivation to finish it. Well, it so happened that I was into cryptocurrencies at that time (still am) and I stumbled across this website bitinfocharts.com. The idea for a project was born - to aggregate and process data from the website so that I could have a unique set of information available only to myself in order to maybe find some correlations between this information and BTC price movements.

Some peoples first projects are to replicate the snake game or make an app to sort their files. I didn't realise what I got myself into! I had no knowledge about databases, web scraping or web development. I didn't know anything about the libraries that I should have used and to be honest, I didn't quite understand the concepts of libraries or frameworks.

Once, I figured out how to scrape data from the website I started to overload bitinfocharts servers daily for at least 1.5 - 2 hours, with tens of thousands of unnecessary requests. I took a while for them to respond to my nasty behaviour but nevertheless, my IP address got banned. At first, I got really upset when I figured out what error 403 means. But this is how I got introduced to the wonderful world of VPNs and so I continued to misbehave. In the end, they were forced to address the situation more seriously and introduced a captcha - and hence ending my efforts (for a time being).

Long story short, the creation of this project spread over a couple of years due to me burning out over and over again as well as due to doing other projects, pursuing my bachelor's degree at the Uni and of course procrastinating mercilessly. In the end, I had to re-write 85 % of the code to make it match with the new skills I have obtained over the years.

I am planning to support this project and adding new features and plots.

For any enquiries please contact me on almondiris@gmail.com