Scraping the CoinMarketCap API
If you need to download data from CoinMarketCap, we’ll show you how to legally do this using the Official CoinMarketCap API with our service.
This will let you export CoinMarketCap to CSV or Excel files without having to write or maintain your own code to query the CoinMarketCap API. Below is a simple example to fetch current prices on the CoinMarketCap API’s free tier.
1. Get Your API Key
Head to the CoinMarketCap API Key and sign up for a free account to get an API key. You won’t be able to download historical data unless you have a paid plan, but you may find the free tier useful for experimenting around and getting comfortable with the CoinMarketCap API.
2. Query the API
To access the CoinMarketCap API with our service, you’ll need to register for a free account with us and then under the “Endpoints” section of this page you’ll see a link to the “Cryptocurrency Quotes” endpoint on this page. You can then run a query for current prices on a few cryptocurrency tickers:
Under the hood, our service is querying the CoinMarketCap Historical Cryptocurrency Quotes API Endpoint which you can also do if you don’t mind writing and running code.
3. Download Data
The endpoint will output downloadable CSV files you can start using right away in Excel or your spreadsheet program of choice.
You can keep playing around with the parameters or if you’re ready to delve into historical data, check out our CoinMarketCap Historical Data Scraper (which requires a paid CoinMarketCap API key).
Legal Concerns
If you’re interested in scraping cryptocurrency exchange data, historical pricing & market cap statistics, CoinMarketCap is the way to go! However, their core product is their data, and they will not allow anyone to simply scrape all of it for free. Any web scraper that promises to scrape this data from CoinMarketCap is not only unethical, but putting CoinMarketCap at risk. If its data is given away for free, then do you expect the service to be around much longer?
Instead of illegally web scraping CoinMarketCap, the above content is dedicated to helping you legally extract data from the Official CoinMarketCap API into downloadable CSV files you can analyze in Excel or upload to your data analysis program of choice.