CoinGecko Crypto Market Data Scraper

Pull live cryptocurrency prices and market data straight from the public CoinGecko API. No API key, no login, no captcha. Point it at the top coins by market cap, a specific list of coins, a single sector, or a keyword search, and get one clean row per coin.

It runs on CoinGecko's own JSON API (api.coingecko.com), the same data behind coingecko.com, so the output stays accurate and the actor stays simple to maintain. Traffic routes through Apify Proxy and every retry rotates to a fresh IP, which keeps CoinGecko's per-IP rate limit from stalling a run.

What it does

Three modes, one actor:

• markets returns coins ranked by market cap (or volume), with full price and market data. This is the default. Filter to one sector with a category id, or pass a list of coin ids to fetch only those.
• search takes keywords, resolves each to matching coins, and returns their market rows.
• categories returns CoinGecko's crypto sectors (Layer 1, meme tokens, Solana ecosystem, and so on) with sector market cap, 24h change, and volume.

Output fields (markets and search)

Each coin row carries: id, symbol, name, rank, price, marketCap, fullyDilutedValuation, volume24h, high24h, low24h, priceChange24h, priceChangePercent1h, priceChangePercent24h, priceChangePercent7d, priceChangePercent30d, marketCapChange24h, marketCapChangePercent24h, circulatingSupply, totalSupply, maxSupply, ath, athChangePercent, athDate, atl, atlChangePercent, atlDate, roiTimes, image, vsCurrency, lastUpdated, and coingeckoUrl.

Category rows carry: id, name, marketCap, marketCapChangePercent24h, volume24h, top3CoinIds, top3CoinImages, description, and updatedAt.

Input

Field	What it does
mode	markets, search, or categories
vsCurrency	quote currency, for example usd, eur, btc, eth
order	ranking for markets mode (market cap or volume, either direction)
maxItems	cap on rows returned; markets mode paginates 250 per page
coinIds	optional coin ids for markets mode, for example bitcoin, ethereum, solana
category	optional category id to restrict markets to one sector
searchQueries	keywords for search mode
proxyConfiguration	Apify Proxy settings, on by default

Example

The default run returns the top 100 coins by market cap in USD. A quick config to track a short watchlist:

{
  "mode": "markets",
  "vsCurrency": "usd",
  "coinIds": ["bitcoin", "ethereum", "solana", "dogecoin"]
}

Notes

CoinGecko's free API rate-limits by IP. The actor spreads requests across rotating Apify Proxy sessions and retries any 429 with exponential backoff, so most runs finish clean. Very large pulls (thousands of coins) take longer because pages are fetched politely rather than all at once. Prices come straight from CoinGecko and are only as fresh as CoinGecko's own updates, which is roughly once a minute.