What sources of information would be useful to a trading bot on BTC-e? The ticker API seems a bit limited in terms of the information it supplies. Are there other more detailed tickers available? Has anyone put together code to scrape the BTC-e pages?
Do you need BTC-e exactly?
Bitstamp provides a pretty easy to use API:
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https://www.bitstamp.net/api/You can also use it for historical data, using the
transactions query with a large enough
timedelta, although it's obviously limited only to Bitstamp.
MtGox does the same:
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https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API