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Title: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: lestat2k7 on January 14, 2018, 07:06:14 AM
Hi all,

I am writing a program where I simulate some investment ideas but I need a database with at least top 100 altcoins for a couple months to a year with hourly prices.

Anyone knows where I can find this info?


Thanks in advance.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: BigTerror87 on January 14, 2018, 07:07:34 AM
I guess coinmarketcap.com gives you a detailed information about all of the coins in the market. Try to look the website and see if you can find it there.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: hinorizk on January 14, 2018, 07:10:44 AM
Hi all,

I am writing a program where I simulate some investment ideas but I need a database with at least top 100 altcoins for a couple months to a year with hourly prices.

Anyone knows where I can find this info?


Thanks in advance.
Coinmarketcap have the price for all the exchange even just 1 coin.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: lestat2k7 on January 14, 2018, 07:42:54 AM
Yes coinmarketcap has a lot of data but I need to be able to query this in my program. Only one I can parse from their site is daily prices.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: Tone147 on January 14, 2018, 07:57:19 AM
Do you want to do high-frequency trading strategies? So why not just connect to the exchange's API.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: lestat2k7 on January 14, 2018, 08:50:44 AM
No I just need past data for simulations, not real time.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: yslyv on January 14, 2018, 09:00:30 AM
It is already answered  :)
Coinmarketcap is only the place you can find this information. Most of the application and website takes th datas they use from coinmarketcap.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: mirgo1791 on January 14, 2018, 01:33:34 PM
one account for a life time is enough for programmer with good knowledge to plotly...



Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: johnnywoo2015 on January 14, 2018, 01:39:17 PM
Yes coinmarketcap has a lot of data but I need to be able to query this in my program. Only one I can parse from their site is daily prices.

I read somewhere that CMC will soon announce API access to their DB with historical data, but it will be paid.
The other option is to make a DB with current 5 min ticks from CMC and make your own historical DB over time.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: BigTerror87 on January 15, 2018, 12:08:40 PM
coinmarketcap.com can give you a lot of information it includes the historical graph of the coins from the start of the coin in the exchange and into the current period of time.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: Red-Apple on January 15, 2018, 12:27:53 PM
I need a database with at least top 100 altcoins for a couple months to a year with hourly prices.

use Poloniex API although i think they don't have hourly price! instead they have 2 hour, half hour, daily, even 5 minute!

https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnChartData&currencyPair=BTC_XMR&start=1405699200&end=9999999999&period=14400

change currencyPair for any pair that Poloniex has. and the start and end times are obviously UNIX timestamps so change them according to your need.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: madgtr on January 15, 2018, 12:46:54 PM
I think coinmarket cap has all the info you need. The data is live there so you can check in whenever you want.


Title: Re: Hourly data on alt coins historically?
Post by: Vit83 on January 15, 2018, 01:31:17 PM
Is it possible to use tradingview? U can write on their base. They have all required info from almost all exchanges. Or u need use API of exchanges. U can also look QT trader it is open source and uses APIs of a lot of exchanges.