Oracle tutorial/documentation where oracle information comes from outside chain

[rwfresh]

Hi All,

looking for information on the creation of an Oracle where the data feeding the Oracle is coming from a source outside the chain. ie: how can I create a weather oracle where the data is returned from the weather.com api? or how can I inject bitcoin price data into my oracle where the source is an exchange’s api? thanks!

[rwfresh]

Anyone? Even looking for the general approach. Create a service that grabs external data and then pushes into the Oracle? I’m guessing that’s the general approach. If there are any examples it’s appreciated.

[emin.chain]

@rwfresh

Anyone? Even looking for the general approach.

There are a couple of examples on our GitHub repository. Search for Oracle in the documentation hub https://aeternity.com/documentation-hub/aepp-sophia-examples/examples/SmartDataProvider/

And here is a nice example from the Elixir SDK team:

Smart Oracle - Small Elixir showcase application, built on top of aeternity blockchain.

Introducing Smart Oracle - an Elixir SDK showcase application, built on top of aeternity blockchain, by using Aeternity Elixir SDK This small showcase project was built within 2 days of Elixir SDK hackathon. Hackathon, in which Elixir SDK team, for 2 days, we had to implement small Elixir projects which will be usecases of our SDK and also “field-testing” our SDK, also they could be used as some sort of examples to our aeternity dev community. Smart Oracle is a console application, made to …

Please let me know if you need more information.