dYdX v4 Perpetual Markets Scraper

🚀 Export dYdX v4 perpetual markets in seconds. Oracle prices, funding rates, and open interest direct from the public indexer.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 . 📊 12 fields per record . Public API . Real-time

The dYdX v4 Perpetual Markets Scraper turns the dYdX v4 indexer public REST endpoint into a clean, structured dataset.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
📊 Crypto traders	Snapshot perp market state
🪙 Quant analysts	Track funding rates
💼 Market makers	Compare oracle vs mark
🤖 ML engineers	Build trading dashboards

📋 What the dYdX v4 Perpetual Markets Scraper does

• Calls https://indexer.dydx.trade/v4/perpetualMarkets.
• Flattens each market into a row.
• Supports ticker filter and status filter.
• 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": 50
}

Example 2.

{
  "ticker": "BTC-USD"
}

Example 3.

{
  "activeOnly": true
}

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

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🏷️ ticker	string	Market ticker (e.g. BTC-USD).
📡 status	string	Market status.
🔮 oraclePrice	number	Oracle-reported price.
📈 priceChange24H	number	24h price change.
💰 volume24H	number	24h notional volume.
📊 trades24H	number	24h trade count.
📦 openInterest	number	Open interest in base units.
💵 nextFundingRate	number	Next funding rate.
⚖️ initialMarginFraction	number	Initial margin fraction.
⚖️ maintenanceMarginFraction	number	Maintenance margin fraction.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetch time.
❌ error	string	Set if upstream error.

Sample record.

{
  "ticker": "BTC-USD",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "oraclePrice": 60727.18,
  "priceChange24H": -2594.17,
  "volume24H": 294624399,
  "trades24H": 54912,
  "openInterest": 520.96,
  "nextFundingRate": 0.00005726,
  "initialMarginFraction": 0.02,
  "maintenanceMarginFraction": 0.012,
  "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 dYdX v4 Perpetual Markets 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. Indexer is public.

❓ How fresh is data? Real-time. The indexer updates on every block.

❓ Can I filter by ticker? Yes via the ticker input.

❓ Can I filter active only? Yes via the activeOnly input.

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

❓ Will the schema change? ticker, status, oraclePrice, openInterest, nextFundingRate are stable.

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

❓ Is rate limiting strict? dYdX is generous for read endpoints.

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

❓ Is this scraping or API? API.

🔌 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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