Adjust documentation to removed download-script

freqtrade/configuration/configuration.py

@@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ class Configuration(object):
         self._args_to_config(config, argname='trade_source',
                              logstring='Using trades from: {}')
 
+        self._args_to_config(config, argname='erase',
+                             logstring='Erase detected. Deleting existing data.')
+
         self._args_to_config(config, argname='timeframes',
                              logstring='timeframes --timeframes: {}')
 

freqtrade/data/history.py

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ def load_pair_history(pair: str,
     else:
         logger.warning(
             f'No history data for pair: "{pair}", interval: {ticker_interval}. '
-            'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or download_backtest_data.py '
+            'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or `freqtrade download-data` '
             'script to download the data'
         )
         return None

freqtrade/tests/data/test_history.py

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def test_load_data_7min_ticker(mocker, caplog, default_conf) -> None:
     assert ld is None
     assert log_has(
         'No history data for pair: "UNITTEST/BTC", interval: 7m. '
-        'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or download_backtest_data.py '
+        'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or `freqtrade download-data` '
         'script to download the data', caplog
     )
 
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ def test_load_data_with_new_pair_1min(ticker_history_list, mocker, caplog, defau
     assert os.path.isfile(file) is False
     assert log_has(
         'No history data for pair: "MEME/BTC", interval: 1m. '
-        'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or download_backtest_data.py '
+        'Use --refresh-pairs-cached option or `freqtrade download-data` '
         'script to download the data', caplog
     )
 

freqtrade/utils.py

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ def start_list_exchanges(args: Namespace) -> None:
 
 def start_download_data(args: Namespace) -> None:
     """
-    Download data based
+    Download data (former download_backtest_data.py script)
     """
     config = setup_utils_configuration(args, RunMode.OTHER)
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ def start_download_data(args: Namespace) -> None:
                 pair_print = pair.replace('/', '_')
                 filename = f'{pair_print}-{ticker_interval}.json'
                 dl_file = dl_path.joinpath(filename)
-                if args.erase and dl_file.exists():
+                if config.get("erase") and dl_file.exists():
                     logger.info(
                         f'Deleting existing data for pair {pair}, interval {ticker_interval}.')
                     dl_file.unlink()