BitcoinPrice (Gnome extension)

This is my first Gnome extension which collects the current Mt Gox Bitcoin price and displays it next to the clock in the main Gnome panel. The code is available in our extensions repository here. It checks the Mt. Gox BTCUSD ticker every two minutes which returns about 1KB of JSON encoded data from which the script extracts the current price from and places onto the status bar by the clock.

The code needs to be placed into your extensions directory in the path ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/, and the extension directory should be renamed from BitcoinPrice to BitcoinPrice@organicdesign.co.nz. This is probably the wrong way to go about installing it, but I'm a total noob at Gnome extensions, so haven't figured out the right ways of doing things yet!

Here's what it looks like when it's running: