Coinbase Orders API
Create, cancel, and manage trading orders including market, limit, and stop-limit order types.
Coinbase Orders API is one of 29 APIs that Coinbase publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification and an AsyncAPI event-driven specification.
Tagged areas include Order. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an AsyncAPI specification.
This API exposes 14 operations across 10 paths, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://api.coinbase.com/api/v3/brokerage, https://api.exchange.coinbase.com, https://api.prime.coinbase.com/v1.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Coinbase Orders API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as CB-ACCESS-KEY (apiKeyAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
apiKeyAuth— Coinbase API key authentication using HMAC SHA-256 signatures. Requires CB-ACCESS-KEY, CB-ACCESS-SIGN, and CB-ACCESS-TIMESTAMP headers.
Paths & Operations 14
Across 10 paths, the API surfaces 14 operations — 2 DELETE, 7 GET, 5 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Create, cancel, and manage trading orders including market, limit, and stop-limit order types.
Schemas 10
The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Order_3 (15 properties), Order (15 properties), Order_2 (15 properties), CreateOrderRequest_3 (10 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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