CoinMarketCap Scraper

Scrape cryptocurrency prices and market data from CoinMarketCap, the world's largest crypto tracking platform with 8,500+ cryptocurrencies.

What does CoinMarketCap Scraper do?

This Actor extracts real-time cryptocurrency market data from CoinMarketCap's internal data API. Get current prices, market capitalizations, trading volumes, price changes across multiple time periods, and supply data for thousands of cryptocurrencies.

Features

• Scrape up to 8,500+ cryptocurrencies in a single run
• Sort by market cap, price, volume, name, or price change
• Filter by crypto type (all, coins only, tokens only)
• Rich data: price, market cap, volume, 1h/24h/7d/30d/60d/90d changes, dominance, YTD change
• Fast HTTP-only scraper (no browser needed)
• Automatic pagination handling

Output

Each cryptocurrency result includes:

Field	Description
id	CoinMarketCap internal ID
name	Cryptocurrency name (e.g., "Bitcoin")
symbol	Ticker symbol (e.g., "BTC")
slug	URL slug (e.g., "bitcoin")
cmcRank	CoinMarketCap ranking
price	Current price in USD
marketCap	Market capitalization in USD
volume24h	24-hour trading volume in USD
percentChange1h	Price change in last 1 hour (%)
percentChange24h	Price change in last 24 hours (%)
percentChange7d	Price change in last 7 days (%)
percentChange30d	Price change in last 30 days (%)
percentChange60d	Price change in last 60 days (%)
percentChange90d	Price change in last 90 days (%)
fullyDilutedMarketCap	Fully diluted market cap in USD
circulatingSupply	Circulating supply
totalSupply	Total supply
maxSupply	Maximum supply (null if unlimited)
marketPairCount	Number of trading pairs
dominance	Market dominance percentage
turnover	Volume/market cap ratio
ytdPriceChangePercentage	Year-to-date price change (%)
percentChange1y	1-year price change (%)
dateAdded	Date first listed on CoinMarketCap
lastUpdated	Timestamp of last data update
scrapedAt	Timestamp when data was scraped

Example output

{
    "id": 1,
    "name": "Bitcoin",
    "symbol": "BTC",
    "slug": "bitcoin",
    "cmcRank": 1,
    "circulatingSupply": 20020787,
    "totalSupply": 20020787,
    "maxSupply": 21000000,
    "marketPairCount": 12615,
    "isActive": true,
    "dateAdded": "2010-07-13T00:00:00.000Z",
    "price": 93249.50,
    "volume24h": 34567890123,
    "marketCap": 1867123456789,
    "percentChange1h": -0.12,
    "percentChange24h": 2.34,
    "percentChange7d": 5.67,
    "percentChange30d": 12.45,
    "percentChange60d": 18.90,
    "percentChange90d": -8.23,
    "fullyDilutedMarketCap": 1958239500000,
    "dominance": 61.23,
    "turnover": 0.0185,
    "ytdPriceChangePercentage": -10.5,
    "percentChange1y": 45.67,
    "lastUpdated": "2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-25T12:01:00.000Z"
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sortBy	select	market_cap	Sort field: market_cap, name, price, percent_change_24h, percent_change_7d, volume_24h
sortOrder	select	desc	Sort direction: desc or asc
cryptoType	select	all	Filter: all, coins, or tokens
maxResults	integer	500	Max results (0 = all, max 10,000)
proxyConfiguration	proxy	none	Optional proxy settings

Use cases

• Portfolio tracking: Get real-time prices for your crypto holdings
• Market analysis: Track market caps, volumes, and dominance shifts
• Trend detection: Monitor 1h/24h/7d/30d price changes to spot momentum
• Research: Compare supply metrics, FDV, and market pair counts
• Alerts: Feed data into monitoring systems for price alerts
• Data pipelines: Export to Google Sheets, databases, or BI tools

Cost of usage

This Actor uses CoinMarketCap's public data API which requires no authentication. Typical usage costs on Apify:

• 500 cryptos: ~$0.003 (a few seconds)
• 5,000 cryptos: ~$0.01 (under a minute)
• All 8,500+: ~$0.02 (1-2 minutes)

Tips

• Start with the default 500 results to get top cryptocurrencies by market cap
• Use cryptoType: "coins" to filter out tokens and focus on major cryptocurrencies
• Sort by percent_change_24h descending to find today's biggest gainers
• The API returns up to 200 results per page; the scraper handles pagination automatically
• No proxy is typically needed, but enable it if you experience rate limiting