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title: "CoinMarketCap"
description: "Instructions how to integrate CoinMarketCap data within Home Assistant."
date: 2016-08-31 08:15
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ha_category: Finance
ha_release: 0.28
ha_iot_class: "Cloud Polling"
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The `coinmarketcap` sensor platform displays various details about a crypto currency provided by [CoinMarketCap](http://coinmarketcap.com/).

To add the CoinMarketCap sensor to your installation, add the following lines to your `configuration.yaml`:

```yaml
# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: coinmarketcap
    currency: bitcoin
```

Configuration variables:

- **currency** (*Optional*): The currency to display, eg. `bitcoin`, `litecoin`, `steem`, etc. Default is `bitcoin`.