Setting up a local development environment for the Bitswan library on Windows 11

Prerequisites Windows 11 Administrator privileges Installation Scenarios Scenario 1: Fresh Installation Follow these steps if you have neither WSL nor Visual Studio Code installed. (The simplest way to check if you have both of them installed you can just pressing the win+s shortcut and looking up the WSL and Visual Studio Code/vscode and seeing if they show up) Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Install Visual Studio Code Install Jupyter Notebook Extensions in VSCode Scenario 2: WSL and VSCode Installed If you have WSL and VSCode installed but need the Jupyter extensions: ...

From Stock Automation to Daily Discord Updates with BitSwan

This post demonstrates how easy it is to turn a BitSwan Jupyter automation—originally triggered manually by a WebFormSource—into a fully automatic process that runs on a schedule and sends the result elsewhere. In this example, we’ll show how to transform the stock calculator automation into a daily job that sends a stock performance plot to a Discord channel using a webhook. You can find the original stock automation here: StocksCalculator. If you haven’t created it yet, follow this introductory blog post. ...

Checking your stocks with a Bitswan Automation

This post introduces how to use BitSwan Jupyter Automations to create your first automation using a WebForm source. You’ll learn how to set up a simple automation pipeline, define a web form, and handle the data submitted through it. We will follow an automation that is present in our examples: StocksCalculator. Feel free to experiment yourself, but this following tutorial will go to detail how each component works. This tutorial will give you an example of an automation where you can select a date and the pipeline will display a graph of the several stocks and their performance at that day! ...

Getting Started with Bitswan Workspace

You can create a Bitswan workspace and run Bitswan automations anywhere whether in a VPS on your favorite cloud provider or on your environment locally! This post will run you through the process of setting up a Bitswan workspace complete with an IDE for building your automations and and a runtime system where you can deploy them with the click of a button. Prerequisities git, linux/macos environment, docker, and bitswan-workspaces Tutorial Install Bitswan Workspace CLI Linux / WSL LATEST_VERSION=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/bitswan-space/bitswan-workspaces/releases/latest | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")') curl -L "https://github.com/bitswan-space/bitswan-workspaces/releases/download/${LATEST_VERSION}/bitswan-workspaces_${LATEST_VERSION}_linux_amd64.tar.gz" | tar -xz You can find the installation instructions and command for MacOS here ...