Understand the project
Practical overview
When it fits
Use it for a combined snapshot of cryptocurrency market metrics and social feeds, especially when looking beyond the default top-100 list.
Who it is for
- People who want to scan cryptocurrency prices, rankings and market changes in one dashboard.
- Readers who want market metrics and cryptocurrency-related Twitter feeds in the same view.
Documented uses
- Review coin rank, price, symbol, market capitalization and 24-hour volume.
- Compare percentage changes over one hour, one day and one week.
- Search for coins outside the default top-100 list.
- Browse recent and popular cryptocurrency-related tweets.
Before you choose
Requirements & limits
- The market view covers the top 100 currencies by market capitalization and offers search for other coins.
- The documented data sources are the CoinMarketCap API and Twitter API.
- Setup requires adding Twitter API credentials to config.php.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Source-based practical guide
Configure the dashboard's Twitter credentials
Prepare the project configuration with Twitter API credentials.
Before you start
- The project repository
- Twitter API credentials
Steps
Clone the repository.
Copy config-sample.php to a file named config.php.
Edit config.php and enter the Twitter consumer key, consumer secret, access token and access-token secret.
Expected outcome
The configuration file contains the Twitter credentials the README specifies for the project.
Guide limitations
- The instructions cover configuration only; they do not document deployment or running the dashboard.
- The dashboard also uses the CoinMarketCap API.
Evidence and transparency
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 18 October 2026
- Original website title
- christ0ph3r/cryptocurrency-dashboard · Official homepage title · retained in its source language