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CryptoCompare Spot API

Spot market data including latest tick, historical OHLCV, trades, order book L1, and instrument metadata.

CryptoCompare Spot API is one of 18 APIs that CryptoCompare publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 10 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Spot. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and 10 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 8 operations across 8 paths, and defines 8 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://data-api.cryptocompare.com.

8 operations 8 paths 8 schemas 8 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.2.0
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://min-api.cryptocompare.com/data
Authentication
API Key, API Key
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

CryptoCompare Spot API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as api_key (apiKeyQuery). An API key is passed in the header as Authorization (apiKeyHeader). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • apiKeyQuery — API key supplied as the apikey query parameter.
  • apiKeyHeader — API key supplied as Authorization: Apikey {apiKey}.

Paths & Operations 8

Across 8 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 8 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Spot 8

Spot market data including latest tick, historical OHLCV, trades, order book L1, and instrument metadata.

GET
/spot/v1/latest/tick
Get Spot Latest Tick
getSpotLatestTick 3 params → 200
GET
/spot/v2/markets
List Spot Markets
getSpotMarketsList 1 param → 200
GET
/spot/v1/markets/instruments
Get Spot Instrument Metadata
getSpotInstrumentMetadata 2 params → 200
GET
/spot/v1/historical/days
Get Spot Historical Daily OHLCV
getSpotHistoricalDaily 7 params → 200
GET
/spot/v1/historical/hours
Get Spot Historical Hourly OHLCV
getSpotHistoricalHourly 5 params → 200
GET
/spot/v1/historical/minutes
Get Spot Historical Minute OHLCV
getSpotHistoricalMinute 5 params → 200
GET
/spot/v1/historical/trades
Get Spot Historical Trades
getSpotHistoricalTrades 4 params → 200
GET
/spot/v1/latest/orderbook/l1/top
Get Spot Order Book L1 Top
getSpotOrderbookL1Top 2 params → 200

Schemas 8

The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SpotTick (32 properties), HistoricalOHLCVRow (28 properties), SpotTickResponse (2 properties), HistoricalOHLCVResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

OrderbookL1TopResponse
object
1 property
HistoricalOHLCVResponse
object
2 properties
SpotTickResponse
object
2 properties
MarketsListResponse
object
1 property
HistoricalOHLCVRow
object
28 properties
InstrumentMetadataResponse
object
1 property
TradesResponse
object
1 property
SpotTick
object
32 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

cryptocompare-spot-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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