# Korea Upbit & Bithumb Crypto — 김치프리미엄 API (`nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers`) Actor

Track Korea Upbit and Bithumb crypto tickers and the kimchi premium. Clean JSON for analysts, quants and AI agents.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 ticker records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Korea Upbit & Bithumb Crypto

Track Korea Upbit and Bithumb crypto tickers and the kimchi premium. Built for analysts, quants, fintech builders and AI agents.

Factual public data — not financial or investment advice.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per ticker (full output has 14 fields):

- `ask` — Ask
- `base` — Base
- `bid` — Bid
- `exchange` — Exchange
- `fetched_at` — Fetched at
- `kimchi_premium_pct` — Kimchi premium pct
- `last` — Last
- `mid` — Mid
- `quote` — Quote
- `source_url` — Source url

**Pricing:** $0.00 per ticker (Pay-Per-Event) — about **333 tickers per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull Korea Upbit and Bithumb crypto tickers with kimchi premium on demand.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Show BTC on Upbit vs global price and the current kimchi premium.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### ⏰ Run on a schedule

This is a monitoring play — schedule a recurring pull:

```json
{
  "limit": 50
}
```

### 한국어 안내

이 Actor는 한국 업비트·빗썸 암호화폐 시세와 김치프리미엄(매수/매도 호가, 최종가)을(를) 깔끔한 JSON으로 제공합니다. 분석가, 퀀트 리서처, 핀테크 개발자, AI 에이전트를 위해 설계되었습니다. 「시세 기록」 단위로 과금되며(달러당 약 333건), 정기 실행을 지원해 매일·매주 자동으로 한국 거래소 시세와 김치프리미엄을(를) 수집할 수 있습니다. 공개 데이터이며 투자 자문이 아닙니다.

### 🔗 Related Korea actors

**China data suite:** [DART Filings](https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-dart-opendart-filings), [KIND Disclosures](https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-kind-disclosures), [KRX Market Stats](https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-krx-market-statistics), [IPO Pipeline](https://apify.com/nexgendata/korea-ipo-pipeline-tracker)

**Cross-market hubs:** [APAC Disclosure Monitor](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-disclosure-monitor), [APAC IPO Calendar Sweep](https://apify.com/nexgendata/apac-ipo-calendar-sweep)

***

\*Data from public Korean market and government sources. Factual public data — not financial or investment advice.

공개 데이터이며 투자 자문이 아닙니다.\*

# Actor input Schema

## `exchanges` (type: `array`):

Which Korean exchanges to query. Choose any combination of Upbit and Bithumb. Defaults to both.

## `symbols` (type: `string`):

Comma-separated base symbols to pull (uppercase, KRW quote assumed). Example: BTC,ETH,XRP,SOL.

## `include_kimchi_premium` (type: `boolean`):

If true, fetch a USD reference spot price for each symbol and compute the kimchi-premium percentage versus the KRW exchange price. The reference source is set by usd\_reference.

## `usd_reference` (type: `string`):

Where to fetch the USD reference price for the kimchi-premium calc. coingecko = CoinGecko public API. binance = Binance public spot API (USDT pair). none = skip USD reference (kimchi-premium output will be null).

## `max_records` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on total ticker records emitted (across all exchanges x symbols).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "exchanges": [
    "upbit",
    "bithumb"
  ],
  "symbols": "BTC,ETH",
  "include_kimchi_premium": true,
  "usd_reference": "coingecko",
  "max_records": 30
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "exchanges": [
        "upbit",
        "bithumb"
    ],
    "symbols": "BTC,ETH",
    "include_kimchi_premium": true,
    "usd_reference": "coingecko",
    "max_records": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "exchanges": [
        "upbit",
        "bithumb",
    ],
    "symbols": "BTC,ETH",
    "include_kimchi_premium": True,
    "usd_reference": "coingecko",
    "max_records": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "exchanges": [
    "upbit",
    "bithumb"
  ],
  "symbols": "BTC,ETH",
  "include_kimchi_premium": true,
  "usd_reference": "coingecko",
  "max_records": 30
}' |
apify call nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/korea-upbit-bithumb-crypto-tickers",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/HshjCbehJAxBCFyWa/builds/zU19u5KDTgmGPiOQ5/openapi.json