DeFiLlama Chains TVL Scraper

🚀 Export TVL by blockchain in seconds. Direct from DeFiLlama public API into a structured dataset.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 . 📊 8 fields per record . Public API . Real-time

The DeFiLlama Chains TVL Scraper turns the DeFiLlama chains API public REST endpoint into a clean, structured dataset.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 DeFi analysts	Compare chain TVL
🪙 Token researchers	Build DeFi dashboards
💼 VCs	Track new chains
🤖 ML engineers	Snapshot daily TVL

📋 What the DeFiLlama Chains TVL Scraper does

• Calls https://api.llama.fi/v2/chains.
• Flattens each chain into a row.
• Supports min TVL filter and name search.
• Surfaces upstream errors as clean rows.

💡 Why it matters. The source returns raw API payloads that most data tools cannot ingest directly. This actor normalizes everything into a flat row format ready for analysis.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
maxItems	integer	No	Free users limited to 10. Paid users up to 1,000,000. Prefill 10.

Example 1.

{
  "maxItems": 100
}

Example 2.

{
  "minTvl": 1000000000,
  "maxItems": 50
}

⚠️ Good to Know. This actor uses a public endpoint. No login or API key is required.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
⛓️ name	string	Chain name.
🆔 chainId	number	EVM chain id where applicable.
💰 tvl	number	Total value locked in USD.
🪙 tokenSymbol	string	Native token symbol.
🦎 geckoId	string	CoinGecko id.
🏆 cmcId	string	CoinMarketCap id.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetch time.
❌ error	string	Set if upstream error.

Sample record.

{
  "name": "Ethereum",
  "chainId": 1,
  "tvl": 60000000000,
  "tokenSymbol": "ETH",
  "geckoId": "ethereum",
  "cmcId": "1027",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public source, no API key required. | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case fields ready for BI tools. | | 🔢 | Numeric values auto-cast for spreadsheets. | | 🛟 | Errors surfaced as a clean record instead of crashing. | | 💾 | Push to dataset for instant export in multiple formats. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Clean fields?	Numeric casting?
Roll your own fetch	30 min+	❌	❌
Custom Python script	1 hr+	partial	partial
This Actor	5 sec, no install	✅	✅

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Adjust maxItems if needed (defaults to 10).
3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready for download or integration.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Analytics dashboards. Pipe results into BI tools.

💼 Backtesting. Snapshot data daily for reproducible analysis.

📰 Reporting. Embed live numbers in newsletters or briefings.

🤖 ML feature engineering. Build training sets from public data.

🔌 Automating DeFiLlama Chains TVL Scraper

• Make / Zapier. Trigger this actor on a schedule, push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, or Slack.
• Cron schedule. Native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks. POST to your endpoint when a run finishes.
• Pipe to BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres. Native Apify integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Use real data in finance and economics classes.

🧪 Personal research. Track your own metrics without coding.

🤝 Non-profit and open data. Build public dashboards with current numbers.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Spin up a feed in seconds for new ideas.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Pop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your workflow to the actor inputs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an API key? No. DeFiLlama is public.

❓ How fresh is TVL? DeFiLlama updates TVL roughly every 5 minutes.

❓ Can I filter by min TVL? Yes via the minTvl input.

❓ Can I search by chain name? Yes via the nameContains input.

❓ What if upstream errors? A single record with error is pushed.

❓ Will the schema change? name, chainId, tvl, tokenSymbol are stable.

❓ Is rate limiting strict? DeFiLlama is generous on public endpoints.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes via Apify scheduler, Make, Zapier, or cron.

❓ Which export formats? Apify dataset UI exposes multiple structured formats.

❓ Is this scraping or API? API. DeFiLlama exposes a stable public endpoint.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST API or webhook endpoint.

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