Crypto Fear & Greed Index Scraper

Scrape the Crypto Fear & Greed Index as clean, structured JSON — the daily market-sentiment gauge used by traders, quants and dashboards worldwide. Get the current value, its classification, and the full historical time series since February 2018 (~3,000 daily readings) in a single run.

No API key. No login. No proxy required — runs fine on the Apify free plan.

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What is the Fear & Greed Index?

The index condenses volatility, market momentum, social media, dominance and trends into a single 0–100 score describing how the crypto market feels:

Range	Classification	What it means
0–24	Extreme Fear	Investors are panicking — historically a buying opportunity
25–49	Fear	Risk-off mood, sellers in control
50–54	Neutral	Market is undecided
55–74	Greed	Risk-on mood, buyers in control
75–100	Extreme Greed	Market may be due for a correction

The classic contrarian reading: be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.

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What it does

One clean dataset record per day, newest first:

Field	Type	Example	Description
value	integer	29	Index value 0–100
classification	string	Fear	Extreme Fear / Fear / Neutral / Greed / Extreme Greed
date	string	2026-07-28	ISO date (UTC) of the reading
timestamp	string	2026-07-28T00:00:00Z	ISO-8601 UTC datetime of the reading
time_until_update_sec	integer	36878	Seconds until the next update (latest reading only)
sentiment_bucket	string	Fear	Sentiment bucket (same taxonomy as classification)
source	string	alternative.me	Data source
scraped_at	string	2026-07-28T13:45:22Z	When this run fetched the data

Example output

[
  {
    "value": 29,
    "classification": "Fear",
    "date": "2026-07-28",
    "timestamp": "2026-07-28T00:00:00Z",
    "time_until_update_sec": 36878,
    "sentiment_bucket": "Fear",
    "source": "alternative.me",
    "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T13:45:22Z"
  },
  {
    "value": 12,
    "classification": "Extreme Fear",
    "date": "2026-06-29",
    "timestamp": "2026-06-29T00:00:00Z",
    "time_until_update_sec": null,
    "sentiment_bucket": "Extreme Fear",
    "source": "alternative.me",
    "scraped_at": "2026-07-28T13:45:22Z"
  }
]

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	index	What to scrape. index = current + historical sentiment.
limit	integer	100	Days of history to request (newest first). 0 = full history since 2018. Max 5000.
maxItems	integer	500	Safety cap on stored records. Max 5000.

Last 30 days:

{ "mode": "index", "limit": 30, "maxItems": 500 }

Full history since 2018:

{ "mode": "index", "limit": 0, "maxItems": 5000 }

Just today's reading:

{ "mode": "index", "limit": 1, "maxItems": 1 }

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Use cases

• Crypto sentiment — track daily market mood and how fast it flips.
• Trading signals — buy-the-fear / sell-the-greed contrarian entries and exits.
• Backtesting — pull the entire history since 2018 and test sentiment-driven strategies against price data.
• Dashboards — feed the daily value into Grafana, Looker, Google Sheets, Notion or a custom BI board.

Also handy for risk/position-sizing bots, newsletters, and research notes.

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Pricing

Pay-per-result: roughly $0.50 per 1,000 records. A 30-day pull costs about 1.5 cents; the full multi-year history is still only ~$1.50 — once, then run it daily for a single record.

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Why this actor

	This actor	Raw API calls	Copy-paste from a site
Typed JSON (int value, ISO dates)	Yes	Raw strings	No
Full history in one run	Yes	Manual paging	No
No key, no login	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scheduling, storage, webhooks	Yes (Apify)	No	No
CSV / Excel / JSON export	Yes	No	No

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Integrations

Export to CSV, JSON or Excel, or push straight into Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or your own app via the Apify API and webhooks. Schedule a daily run to build your own sentiment time series.

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FAQ

How often does the index update? Once per day. The latest record carries time_until_update_sec so you know exactly when the next value lands.

How far back does the history go? To 1 February 2018 — around 3,000 daily readings and counting.

Do I need a proxy or an API key? No. The actor works without either.

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Not affiliated with alternative.me. Data is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial advice.