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GET
/
crypto
/
prices
/
snapshot
Get crypto price snapshot
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.financialdatasets.ai/crypto/prices/snapshot \
  --header 'X-API-KEY: <api-key>'
{
  "snapshot": {
    "price": 123,
    "ticker": "<string>",
    "day_change": 123,
    "day_change_percent": 123,
    "time": "<string>"
  }
}

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👋 Overview

The Crypto Snapshot API lets you pull the latest real-time price for a given cryptocurrency. The real-time price is the last price that was traded for the ticker on exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Bitfinex. To get started, please create an account and grab your API key at financialdatasets.ai. You will use the API key to authenticate your API requests.

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📊 Available Tickers

You can fetch a list of available tickers with a GET request to: https://api.financialdatasets.ai/crypto/prices/tickers/

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🚀 Getting Started

There are only 3 steps for making a successful API call:
  1. Add your API key to the header of the request as X-API-KEY.
  2. Add query params like ticker to filter the data.
  3. Execute the API request.
Note: You must provide the ticker.

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💻 Example

Price Snapshot
import requests

# add your API key to the headers
headers = {
    "X-API-KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}

# set your query params
ticker = 'BTC-USD'

# create the URL
url = (
    f'https://api.financialdatasets.ai/crypto/prices/snapshot'
    f'?ticker={ticker}'
)

# make API request
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

# parse snapshot from the response
snapshot = response.json().get('snapshot')

Authorizations

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X-API-KEY
string
header
required

API key for authentication.

Query Parameters

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ticker
string
required

The cryptocurrency ticker symbol.

Response

Price snapshot response

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snapshot
object