CoinGecko Scraper — Live Crypto Prices & Market Caps, No API Key

Launch pricing: this actor currently adds no fee — run it on your Apify free-plan credits. Try it, bookmark it, wire it into your stack.

A CoinGecko scraper for live market data with zero setup: this CoinGecko API scraper works as a crypto price scraper and cryptocurrency market data scraper — prices, market caps, ranks, 24h volume, 24h change, ATH and ATL for the top coins in any quote currency. Use it as a scheduled crypto market cap scraper without registering for an API key.

Top-N coins by market cap as clean JSON, every run — and an API error or empty response fails loudly instead of producing an empty dataset.

Who uses this

• Dashboard & bot builders — a scheduled run is a free, keyless market-data backend.
• Analysts & newsletter writers — daily top-100 snapshots make trend tables trivial.
• Spreadsheet investors — live portfolio valuation with one IMPORTDATA formula.
• Data teams — consistent coin records (id, symbol, vsCurrency, scrapedAt) for time-series storage.

Tracking public crypto-adjacent companies too (MSTR, COIN, miners)? The SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper pulls their filing history by ticker.

How it works

The actor calls CoinGecko's public /coins/markets endpoint ordered by market cap, paginates until maxItems is reached, and maps each row to a flat record. Non-array API responses (rate-limit or error objects) throw immediately, and a run that pushed zero coins fails loudly instead of succeeding empty.

Output

One record per coin:

{
  "id": "bitcoin",
  "symbol": "btc",
  "name": "Bitcoin",
  "currentPrice": 64749,
  "marketCap": 1298684174087,
  "marketCapRank": 1,
  "totalVolume": 31926927567,
  "priceChangePercentage24h": 3.48824,
  "ath": 126080,
  "atl": 67.81,
  "vsCurrency": "usd",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-15T09:35:29.185Z"
}

• id is CoinGecko's stable coin id — join key for any other CoinGecko data.
• vsCurrency + scrapedAt make records safely stackable into a time series.

Input

Field	Default	Description
vsCurrency	usd	Quote currency (usd, eur, gbp, btc, …)
perPage	100	Coins per API request (1–250)
page	1	Start page (1 = highest market cap)
maxItems	100	Stop after this many coins

The default run needs no configuration — an empty input returns the top 100 coins by market cap in USD.

Reliability & limits

• Free-tier rate limits: CoinGecko's public API allows roughly 5–15 calls/min. The default run is a single call; very large maxItems values (many pages) can hit 429 — the actor retries with backoff, then fails loudly rather than returning a partial-silent dataset.
• Prices refresh on CoinGecko's cadence (typically under a minute for top coins); this is market snapshot data, not tick-level feed.
• No API key needed; for heavy schedules keep runs ≤250 coins or space them out.

Paste this output into…

• Google Sheets — =IMPORTDATA("https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/exuberant_volley~coingecko-market-scraper/runs/last/dataset/items?format=csv&clean=1&token=YOUR_TOKEN") = a self-refreshing market sheet.
• Make / n8n — schedule every hour, fetch .../runs/last/dataset/items, and alert when priceChangePercentage24h crosses your threshold.
• Portfolio valuation (spreadsheet investors) — keep a holdings tab keyed by id (e.g. bitcoin, ethereum); VLOOKUP each id against the imported sheet's currentPrice for live portfolio value on open.

ScrapeForge free data suite

One publisher, ten plug-and-play datasets — all currently free to run:

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GitHub Repositories Scraper	Repo search with stars, forks, topics and licenses	run it next →
Hacker News Scraper	Top/New/Best HN stories with scores and comment counts	run it next →
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SEC EDGAR Filings Scraper	Any US public company's filing history by ticker	run it next →

Compliance

• No personal data is collected — market data only.
• Data comes from CoinGecko's public API; this actor is intended for personal/internal analytics, not commercial redistribution of CoinGecko data (see CoinGecko's terms).
• Records live only in your run's dataset; the actor keeps nothing beyond it.