Automatically Get Bitcoin Difficulty, Bitcoins/Block, Exchange Rate Statistics [duplicate]

Question

What can I do to programmatically get statistics such as current Bitcoin difficulty, Bitcoin award per block, USD/BTC exchange rate?

Answer 1

You can get...

• difficulty from: http://blockexplorer.com/q/getdifficulty
• reward per block from: http://blockexplorer.com/q/bcperblock
• exchange rate from: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/weighted_prices.json
  • or from: http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/markets.json

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