# CoinGecko markets - coin prices, caps, volumes, history (API) (`retrainmap/coingecko-markets`) Actor

Read CoinGecko's public API v3 and get one flat row per coin (price, market cap, rank, volume, 24h/7d change, ATH, supply), per day of price history, per trending coin or per category. Optional demo/pro API key. Default: top 250 coins by market cap in USD, one request.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/retrainmap/coingecko-markets.md
- **Developed by:** [RetrainMap Team](https://apify.com/retrainmap) (community)
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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

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# README

## CoinGecko markets — coin prices, caps, volumes, history (API)

One flat row per coin from CoinGecko's public REST API v3: price, market cap and rank,
24h volume, 24h/7d/30d change, all-time high, circulating/total/max supply and the
CoinGecko URL. Three more modes: daily price/cap/volume history for chosen coins, the 15
trending coins, and every CoinGecko category with its market cap. Normalised, ready for
CSV or JSON. Optional Demo or Pro API key.

**The default input (markets, USD, top 250 by market cap) is one request, succeeds within
5 minutes and returns rows** — Apify auto-tests it daily.

### Data source and status

| | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | CoinGecko (Gecko Labs Pte. Ltd.) |
| API | https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3 — public tier without a key; Demo key (free) or Pro key (paid, pro-api.coingecko.com) optional. Documentation: https://docs.coingecko.com/reference/introduction |
| What this Actor reads | `GET /coins/markets` (250 coins per request, `price_change_percentage=24h,7d,30d`), `GET /coins/{id}/market_chart?days=N&interval=daily`, `GET /search/trending`, `GET /coins/categories` — plain GETs, at most one per 6.5 s by default |
| Refresh cadence | CoinGecko updates market rows roughly every 1–5 minutes (`last_updated` on each row); history is one point per UTC day (5-minute points when `days` = 1); trending is recomputed continuously. The Actor reads live on every run; `fetched_at` is the fetch time |
| Terms / attribution | CoinGecko's API terms (https://www.coingecko.com/en/api\_terms) require attribution: **"Data provided by CoinGecko"** with a link to https://www.coingecko.com. The keyless public and Demo tiers are for non-commercial use; commercial use needs a paid CoinGecko plan (set `api_key` + `api_tier: pro`). You are responsible for using the data within those terms |
| Known caveats | Rate limit: the keyless tier allows roughly 5–15 requests per minute and answers HTTP 429 when exceeded — the Actor waits 6.5 s between requests by default and backs off 15/30/60 s on 429; a Demo key allows 30/min (set `request_interval_ms` to 2000). History is capped at 365 days on the public tier. Trending `market_cap_text` / `total_volume_text` are the API's display strings (e.g. `$1,234,567`), not numbers. `price_change_percentage_7d` is null when the API has no 7-day series for a coin. An unknown coin id makes the API answer HTTP 404 and the run fails with that message |

Honesty note: market data only, as published by CoinGecko — nothing is inferred; this is
not financial advice; not affiliated with CoinGecko.

Identification: the requests carry a product-token User-Agent and the operator's
contact address in the standard `From:` header (RFC 9110 §10.1.2).

### Input

| Field | Type | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `mode` | select | `markets` (default), `coin_history`, `trending`, `categories` |
| `vs_currency` | string | Quote currency code, default `usd` (list: `/simple/supported_vs_currencies`) |
| `coin_ids` | array | CoinGecko ids (`bitcoin`, `ethereum` …). Required for `coin_history`; optional filter for `markets` |
| `days` | integer | `coin_history` only: 1–365, default 30 |
| `order` | select | `markets` only: `market_cap_desc` (default), `market_cap_asc`, `volume_desc`, `volume_asc`, `id_asc`, `id_desc` |
| `max_records` | integer | Default 250; `markets` at most 2,500 (10 requests) |
| `api_key` | secret string | Optional Demo or Pro key (never written anywhere) |
| `api_tier` | select | `demo` (default) or `pro` |
| `request_interval_ms` | integer | Default 6500 (floor 1000) |
| `contact_email` | string | Sent in the `From:` header |

Example — 14 days of daily history for Bitcoin and Ethereum (2 requests, 30 rows):

```json
{ "mode": "coin_history", "vs_currency": "usd", "coin_ids": ["bitcoin", "ethereum"], "days": 14 }
```

### Output (dataset row)

Every row carries `mode`, `vs_currency`, `coingecko_url` and `fetched_at`.

- `markets`: `id`, `symbol`, `name`, `current_price`, `market_cap`, `market_cap_rank`,
  `fully_diluted_valuation`, `total_volume`, `high_24h`, `low_24h`, `price_change_24h`,
  `price_change_percentage_24h`, `price_change_percentage_7d`, `price_change_percentage_30d`,
  `market_cap_change_percentage_24h`, `circulating_supply`, `total_supply`, `max_supply`,
  `ath`, `ath_change_percentage`, `ath_date`, `atl`, `atl_date`, `last_updated`, `image`.
- `coin_history`: `id`, `timestamp` (UTC), `date`, `price`, `market_cap`, `total_volume`.
- `trending`: `rank`, `id`, `name`, `symbol`, `score`, `market_cap_rank`, `price`, `price_btc`,
  `price_change_percentage_24h`, `market_cap_text`, `total_volume_text`, `image`.
- `categories`: `id`, `name`, `market_cap`, `market_cap_change_24h` (%), `volume_24h`,
  `top_3_coins` (ids), `top_3_coin_images`, `updated_at`.

A run summary (mode, filters, requests, retries, whether the pay-per-event budget stopped the
run) is stored as `RUN_SUMMARY` in the run's key-value store.

### Pricing (pay per event)

| Event | Price |
|---|---|
| `run-start` — once per run | $0.10 |
| `record` — per row written | $0.005 |

The default top-250 pull costs $1.35; trending (15 rows) $0.175; 30 days of history for one
coin $0.255. Rows stop when your run's maximum charge is reached; the run summary says so.

### Operator

Steelyard Ventures LLC (RetrainMap) — info@steelyardclinical.com. Not affiliated with
CoinGecko. The Actor writes only to its own dataset and key-value store; your API key is
sent only to CoinGecko and is never logged or stored.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

markets = one row per coin from /coins/markets (price, cap, rank, volume, changes, ATH, supply). coin\_history = one row per day per coin from /coins/{id}/market\_chart (price, cap, volume) - needs coin\_ids. trending = the 15 trending coins from /search/trending. categories = one row per CoinGecko category from /coins/categories.

## `vs_currency` (type: `string`):

CoinGecko currency code prices are quoted in: usd, eur, gbp, jpy, btc, eth ... (full list: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/supported\_vs\_currencies).

## `coin_ids` (type: `array`):

CoinGecko coin ids such as bitcoin, ethereum, solana (the id in the coin's coingecko.com URL; full list: /coins/list). Required for coin\_history (one request per coin). Optional filter for markets. Ignored by trending and categories. An unknown id makes the API answer HTTP 404 and the run fails with that message.

## `days` (type: `integer`):

coin\_history only: how many days back (1-365; the public tier serves at most 365). One row per day (daily granularity; days=1 gives 5-minute points).

## `order` (type: `string`):

markets only: the API's order parameter.

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

Stop after this many rows. markets pages 250 coins per request (at most 2,500 = 10 requests); trending has 15 rows; categories about 760; coin\_history yields days+1 rows per coin.

## `api_key` (type: `string`):

Optional. A Demo key (free, from coingecko.com/en/developers/dashboard) raises the limit to 30 requests/minute and is sent as x-cg-demo-api-key; a paid Pro key is sent as x-cg-pro-api-key to pro-api.coingecko.com when api\_tier = pro. Stored encrypted by Apify; never written to the dataset or logs.

## `api_tier` (type: `string`):

demo (default) uses api.coingecko.com; pro uses pro-api.coingecko.com and needs a paid key.

## `request_interval_ms` (type: `integer`):

Rate limit towards CoinGecko. Default 6500 ms (about 9 requests per minute, safe for the keyless public tier); with a Demo key 2000 ms is safe. Floor 1000 ms. The Actor also backs off 15/30/60 s on HTTP 429.

## `contact_email` (type: `string`):

Sent in the standard From: request header so the data owner can reach the operator (RFC 9110 s10.1.2).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "markets",
  "vs_currency": "usd",
  "days": 30,
  "order": "market_cap_desc",
  "max_records": 250,
  "api_tier": "demo",
  "request_interval_ms": 6500,
  "contact_email": "info@steelyardclinical.com"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per coin (markets), per day per coin (coin\_history), per trending coin or per category, flat and normalised.

## `results_csv` (type: `string`):

The same rows as a CSV file.

# 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 = {
    "mode": "markets",
    "vs_currency": "usd",
    "order": "market_cap_desc",
    "max_records": 250
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("retrainmap/coingecko-markets").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 = {
    "mode": "markets",
    "vs_currency": "usd",
    "order": "market_cap_desc",
    "max_records": 250,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("retrainmap/coingecko-markets").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "markets",
  "vs_currency": "usd",
  "order": "market_cap_desc",
  "max_records": 250
}' |
apify call retrainmap/coingecko-markets --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,retrainmap/coingecko-markets"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/fM867a5GrL65OQy4x/builds/pnw3MGj3YeSMqfEiK/openapi.json