Bitcoin price index api
CryptoCompare uses session cookies to allow access to private data. You can obtain the cookie by logging in. A session key is only valid for 30 days and it has a sliding window period, so each time you use it, it will get extended by 30 days. Type less than will mean there was an error. This section deals with all the requests for price data, social data and historical data.
Most of it is used for dealing with subscription, top list, historical and snapshot data. Get the latest price for a list of one or more currencies. Really fast, ms.
Cached each 10 seconds. Get all the current trading info price, vol, open, high, low etc of any list of cryptocurrencies in any other currency that you need. If the crypto does not trade directly into the toSymbol requested, BTC will be used for conversion. This API also returns Display values for all the fields. If the opposite pair trades we invert it eg.: Compute the current trading info price, vol, open, high, low etc of the requested pair as a volume weighted average based on the markets requested.
Get day average price. The values are based on hourly vwap data and the average can be calculated in different waysIt uses BTC conversion if data is not available because the coin is not trading in the specified currency.
If tryConversion is set to false it will give you the direct data. If no toTS is given it will automatically do the current day. Get the price of any cryptocurrency in any other currency that you need at a given timestamp. The price comes from the daily info - so it would be the price at the end of the day GMT based on the requested TS.
Tries to get direct trading pair data, if there is none or it is more than 30 days before the ts requested, it uses BTC conversion. Get data for a currency pair. It returns general block explorer information, aggregated data and individual data for each exchange available. This api is getting abused and will be moved to a min-api path in the near future.
Please try not to use it. Get the general, subs used to connect to the streamer and to figure out what exchanges we have data for and what are the exact coin pairs of the coin and the aggregated prices for all pairs available. AggregatedPrices Array[] yes Snapshot data about the coin volume, price, open, high, low close etc. If called with the id of a cryptopian you just get data from our website that is available to the public.
UrlstringnoThe relative path without https: Get open, high, low, close, volumefrom and volumeto from the each minute historical data. This data is only stored for 7 days, if you need more,use the hourly or daily path. It uses BTC conversion if data is not available because the coin is not trading in the specified currency. The values are based on Used to get all the mining equipment available on the website. It returns an array of mining equipment objects.
Get top pairs by volume for a currency always uses our aggregated data. The number of pairs you get is the minimum of the limit you set default 5 and the total number of pairs available.
Get real-time market data updates by connecting to our web socket ' wss: We are using socket. For more example code click here. Subscribe to market data by emitting 'SubAdd' including a list of items you want to get updates on. After the first response, only updates will be sent.
The MaskInt parameter maps the response to the properties. Use our utility functions to map the response, you can find the code here. Introduction The best API for getting free cryptocurrency live pricing data, OHLC historical data, volume data, tick data or block explorer data from multiple exchanges and blockchains. Requests Most of the requests that are related to pricing data are public at the moment and generally available via GET functions.
Sessions A session key is only valid for 30 days and it has a sliding window period, so each time you use it, it will get extended by 30 days. Note that the responses to all requests, both public and private, are sent as the response body. Data This section deals with all the requests for price data, social data and historical data. Data Object yes Empty if there is no data to return or there is an error Data [Symbol]: Id int yes The internal id, this is used in other calls Data [Symbol]: ImageUrl string yes The logo image of the coin Data [Symbol]: CoinName string yes The name Data [Symbol]: FullName string yes A combination of the name and the symbol Data [Symbol]: Algorithm string yes The algorithm of the cryptocurrency Data [Symbol]: ProofType string yes The proof type of the cryptocurrency Data [Symbol]: Invalid Market ", "Data": For PST you would pass -8 for example.
URL Parameters Parameter Type Mandatory Description fsym string yes The symbol of the currency you want to get that for tsym string yes The symbol of the currency that data will be in. Technology string yes The technology of the coin, this is returned as html Data: TotalCoinSupply int yes The maximum number of coins Data: StartDate string yes The day the first block was mined, so the day the coin actually came into existance Data: Twitter string yes The twitter address of the coin Data: TwitterWidgetId string yes The cryptocompare twitter widget id for this coin Data: Website string yes The coin official website Data: DifficultyAdjustment string yes The difficulty adjustment Data: BlockRewardReduction string yes The value by which the block reward is reduced when there is a block reward reduction Data: BlockNumber int yes The current block number delayed by 1 hour max Data: BlockTime int yes The estimated time it takes to mine a block Data: TotalCoinsMined int yes The current total coins mined delayed by 1 hour max Data: PreviousTotalCoinsMined int yes The total coins mined as of the previous block, this should be the value of the current block total coins mined - the block reward in most cases.
BlockReward int yes The current block reward delayed by 1 hour max Data: Subs Array[] yes An array of subscriptions used for the streamer and for figuring out what the coin pairs are Data: General object yes The general social info Data: CoinName string yes The name of the coin Data: Type string yes The type of the page: Webpagecoinp or Webpageexchangep Data: Points string yes The sum of all the individual points categories Data: CryptoCompare object yes The social data from our website Data: ImageUrl string yes The relative path without https: Url string yes The relative path without https: CryptopianFollowers Array[11] yes Up to 11 followers 11 because in the front end if you are one of the 10 and you unfollow we still want to show 10 Data: Id int yes The id of the cryptopain that is following Data: Name string yes The name of the cryptopain that is following Data: ImageUrl string yes The avatar image relative path without https: Url string yes The the profile page relative path without https: Type string yes The type of the follower: Markets int no The Markets page views of the coin Data: Analysis int no The Analysis page views of the coin Data: Charts int no The Charts page views of the coin Data: Reviews int no The Reviews page views of the exchange Data: Forum int yes The Forum page views of the coin Data: Twitter obj yes The Twitter social data Data: Points int yes Twitter total points Data: Reddit obj yes The Reddit social data Data: Points int yes Reddit total points Data: Facebook obj yes The Facebook social data Data: Points int no Facebook total points Data: CodeRepository obj yes The code repository social data - only for certain coins Data: List Array[] no List of code repositories for this coin Data: Source obj no If it is a fork, this has actual data about the coin it is a fork of - the source parent of parent or higher - this is the same as the parent when this is the first fork.
If we have the coin on crypto compare it contains data about the coin, otherwise it has the name and url of the code repo Data: Name bool no Name of the source code repo Data: Url url no Url of the source code repo Data: InternalId int no -1 if we don't have it, the actual id if we have it. InternalData obj no Details about the coin page this is a fork of Data: Id int no Id the coin page this is a fork of Data: Name string no Name the coin page this is a fork of Data: Symbol string no Symbol the coin page this is a fork of Data: ImageUrl string no The logo image relative path without https: Type string no The type of the page this is a fork of - Webpagecoinp Data: Parent obj no If it is a fork, this has actual data about the coin it is a fork of - the direct parent.
Name bool no Name of the parent code repo Data: Url url no Url of the parent code repo Data: Points int yes Code repository total points Request examples Get social stats example https: You don't stare at it. Ya get a sense of it and then you look away. Invalid Market ", "Type": For the daily BCX, the weight is as follows:. Quadratic time-weighting places more emphasis on recent data points. For instance, a data point at hours would only receive 0. All price values are denominated in US Dollar cents, so divide by to convert to dollars.
A return value of price: The daily values of the price index. The return value is an array of [time, price] entries.