CoinGecko API Alternative — Crypto Scraper

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🎯 What this scrapes

CoinGecko covers 14 000+ crypto assets with deep market data. This Actor takes a list of coin IDs (e.g. bitcoin, ethereum, solana), absorbs upstream rate limits and transient errors with backoff, and writes one row per coin — current price in USD plus your chosen secondary currency, 24h/7d/30d price change percentages, market cap, 24h trading volume, circulating supply, ATH/ATL with ISO-8601 timestamps, community sentiment, and exchange listing count. Run it once for a snapshot or on a schedule for a time-series — we keep the connection honest so your dataset stays clean.

🔥 What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

💡 Use cases

• Crypto portfolio tracker API — schedule a daily run with your watchlist, pipe to a spreadsheet or your own dashboard.
• Price-change alerting — diff successive runs, fire a Discord / Slack webhook when 24h change crosses a threshold.
• Algorithmic trading research — pull 50 coins by market cap rank, feed into a backtest pipeline without hitting the free-tier ceiling.
• Tax reporting snapshots — daily price records stored for capital-gains math at year-end.
• No-code automation (n8n / Make / Zapier) — connect via the Apify integration node; build a daily watchlist alert to Discord without writing a line of code.

⚙️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free at the top of the page.
2. Fill in the input form — most fields have sensible defaults.
3. Click Start. Output streams into the run's dataset.
4. Export from Storage → Dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel — or fetch via the Apify API.

For no-code workflows: install the Apify node for n8n or the Apify module for Make, connect your Apify token, and point it at DevilScrapes/coingecko-crypto-scraper.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
coinIds	array	yes	["bitcoin", "ethereum", "solana"]	List of CoinGecko coin IDs (lowercase slugs). Find them at coingecko.com — the slug in the URL.
vsCurrency	string	no	"eur"	ISO currency code (lowercase) alongside USD — e.g. eur, gbp, jpy. USD is always included.
includeDeveloperData	boolean	no	false	Add GitHub forks/stars/commits where the coin has a linked repo.
apiKey	string	no	—	Optional — lifts the demo-tier limit from 10 req/min to your plan's quota.
concurrency	integer	no	2	Parallel coin lookups. Keep low on the demo tier (10 req/min ceiling).
proxyConfiguration	object	no	{"useApifyProxy": false}	CoinGecko rate-limits aggressive scrapers — Apify Proxy with rotating sessions helps when the ceiling is tight.

Example input

{
  "coinIds": [
    "bitcoin",
    "ethereum",
    "solana"
  ],
  "vsCurrency": "eur",
  "concurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

📤 Output

Every row is one dataset item.

Field	Type	Notes
coin_id	string	CoinGecko coin slug.
symbol	string	Ticker symbol.
name	string	Coin display name.
image_url	string | null	Coin logo (large) URL.
current_price_usd	number | null	Current price in USD.
current_price_vs	number | null	Current price in the secondary vsCurrency.
vs_currency	string	Secondary currency code used.
price_change_24h_pct	number | null	24h price change percent.
price_change_7d_pct	number | null	7d price change percent.
price_change_30d_pct	number | null	30d price change percent.
market_cap_usd	number | null	Market cap in USD.
market_cap_rank	integer | null	Market cap rank across all coins.
total_volume_usd	number | null	24h trading volume in USD.
circulating_supply	number | null	Circulating supply.
total_supply	number | null	Total supply.
max_supply	number | null	Maximum supply (null for unlimited).
ath_usd	number | null	All-time high in USD.
ath_date	string | null	ATH timestamp (ISO-8601).
atl_usd	number | null	All-time low in USD.
atl_date	string | null	ATL timestamp (ISO-8601).
sentiment_up_pct	number | null	Community sentiment % bullish.
exchanges_count	integer | null	Number of exchanges listing this coin.
github_stars	integer | null	GitHub stars (when includeDeveloperData=true).
github_forks	integer | null	GitHub forks.
coingecko_url	string	Canonical CoinGecko URL.
scraped_at	string	ISO-8601 timestamp when this row was recorded.

Example output

{
  "coin_id": "bitcoin",
  "symbol": "btc",
  "name": "Bitcoin",
  "image_url": "https://assets.coingecko.com/coins/images/1/large/bitcoin.png",
  "current_price_usd": 71250.32,
  "current_price_vs": 65120.10,
  "vs_currency": "eur",
  "price_change_24h_pct": 2.41,
  "price_change_7d_pct": -1.05,
  "price_change_30d_pct": 14.22,
  "market_cap_usd": 1408000000000,
  "market_cap_rank": 1,
  "total_volume_usd": 28400000000,
  "circulating_supply": 19700000,
  "ath_usd": 73750.07,
  "ath_date": "2024-03-14T07:10:36.635Z",
  "sentiment_up_pct": 84.0,
  "exchanges_count": 1042,
  "coingecko_url": "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-01T10:15:00Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pay-Per-Event — you pay only when these events fire:

Event	USD	What it is
actor-start	$0.20	One-off warm-up charge per run
result	$0.002	Per dataset item written

Example: 1 000 results at the rates above ≈ $2.00. No subscription, no minimum, no card to start — Apify gives every new account $5 of free credit, good for 2 500 coin lookups before you owe anything.

🚧 Limitations

• Demo-tier rate limit: CoinGecko's free tier caps you at roughly 10 req/min from a single IP. Attach a CoinGecko Pro API key to lift it; otherwise keep concurrency at 2 or lower.
• No historical OHLC: this Actor returns current and recent-change data only. Historical candlestick data is a separate use case.
• Some fields null for low-coverage coins: lesser-known assets may have incomplete market data on CoinGecko's side.
• Scheduling is your job: the Actor runs once per trigger. For continuous time-series, wire it to an Apify Schedule.

❓ FAQ

Is this a CoinGecko API alternative?

Yes — that's exactly the use case. The CoinGecko free tier is rate-limited to ~10 req/min, and a Pro subscription runs $129/mo. This Actor wraps the same public v3 endpoint, handles rate-limit back-off for you, and charges $2.00 per 1 000 results. For a hobby project scraping 100 coins a day, that's $0.07/day, with no monthly Pro subscription.

Is this real-time?

CoinGecko's free API updates every ~60 seconds. For sub-second feeds, use an exchange WebSocket directly.

What about historical OHLC data?

Out of scope for this Actor — it returns current snapshots and recent price-change percentages only. Historical candlestick data requires the CoinGecko Pro /coins/{id}/ohlc endpoint.

I'm hitting 429 errors — what should I do?

The CoinGecko rate limit is the binding constraint on the free tier. Lower concurrency to 1, or attach a Pro API key in the apiKey field. We already handle transient 429s with exponential backoff and session rotation — persistent 429s mean the upstream quota is genuinely exhausted.

Can I use this with n8n, Make, or Zapier?

Yes. Connect via the Apify integration node in your automation platform, paste your Apify API token, select DevilScrapes/coingecko-crypto-scraper, and pass the coin IDs as input. The run output lands in an Apify dataset you can map to any downstream action.

Can I filter coins by category?

Pass the full ID list directly. Category enumeration (e.g. "pull all DeFi coins") is on the roadmap.

Do I need a CoinGecko account?

No account needed for the demo tier. The apiKey field is optional and only required if you want to lift the rate limit with a Pro plan.

💬 Your feedback

Spotted a bug, hit a weird edge case, or need a new field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console — we ship fixes weekly and we read every report.

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