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Economy => Service Discussion => Topic started by: EKAloji on February 08, 2022, 03:37:21 PM



Title: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: EKAloji on February 08, 2022, 03:37:21 PM
Is there a service where I can get crypto currency data (price, market cap, 24-hour exchange etc.) free of charge and publish it with a 3rd party? All the api distributors I've found are damned forbidding sharing data publicly.


Title: Re: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: bitmover on February 08, 2022, 04:01:06 PM
Is there a service where I can get crypto currency data (price, market cap, 24-hour exchange etc.) free of charge and publish it with a 3rd party? All the api distributors I've found are damned forbidding sharing data publicly.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/api

This is the best free api.
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Free
Because we believe data should be democratized

100% Free crypto API
No keys required
Publicly available
Source: https://www.coingecko.com/en/api



Title: Re: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: EKAloji on February 08, 2022, 04:07:01 PM
No, it does not allow data sharing.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/api_terms


Title: Re: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: bitmover on February 08, 2022, 04:34:31 PM
No, it does not allow data sharing.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/api_terms

I couldn't find anything related to "not allow data sharing". What line is bothering you? can you be more specific?

They clearly state that you can use it in your application and even charge for your application that uses their data.

Just add "powered by coingecko"

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3.1 Pursuant to the provisions of this API Terms, CoinGecko hereby grants to you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable and irrevocable license to use the CoinGecko API to develop, test, and support any software application, mobile application, website, platform, service or product, as well as to integrate or incorporate the CoinGecko API with your Application.
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4.1.6 You are entitled to charge for your services and products that incorporate or integrates our CoinGecko API. However, you are not permitted to sell, rent, lease, sub-license, re-distribute or syndicate access to the CoinGecko API or part thereof (unless pursuant to the terms of an Executed Agreement that you enter into with CoinGecko).
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4.3 You undertake that in your usage of the CoinGecko API, you shall duly attribute ownership of the CoinGecko API to CoinGecko by displaying prominently the message "Powered by CoinGecko" in a legible font




I also found this one. Which is free only for non-commercial use. Coingecko will fit your needs better:
https://coinlib.io/apidocs
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License
You can use our API under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license. Please make sure you credit us with a link if you use our API on your website or app.


Title: Re: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: SFR10 on February 09, 2022, 10:25:07 PM
No, it does not allow data sharing.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/api_terms
I couldn't find anything related to "not allow data sharing". What line is bothering you? can you be more specific?
I believe this is the part that @EKAloji was referring to [coinpaprika (https://coinpaprika.github.io/files/terms_of_use_v1.pdf) also has those terms]:

  • 4.1 Your use of CoinGecko’s API is limited by the following:-
    ~Snipped~
    4.1.7.3 use any Data, information or other content from any of our Property in any advertisements or for targeting advertisements, in any of your Products or part thereof;

Found a couple more that might come in handy:

  • Coinranking's API (https://developers.coinranking.com/api) - Their free version comes with "10,000 API requests per month (https://developers.coinranking.com/api/pricing)"!
    - I couldn't find any information in regards to sharing their data, but you can use it for "commercial purposes (https://support.coinranking.com/article/74-can-i-use-the-coinranking-api-for-commercial-purposes)".
  • CoinLore's API (https://www.coinlore.com/cryptocurrency-data-api) - It doesn't have any terms [AFAICS], so try to contact them prior to using it.


Title: Re: Cryptocurrency price api
Post by: bitmover on February 10, 2022, 11:39:51 AM
I believe this is the part that @EKAloji was referring to [coinpaprika (https://coinpaprika.github.io/files/terms_of_use_v1.pdf) also has those terms]:

  • 4.1 Your use of CoinGecko’s API is limited by the following:-
    ~Snipped~
    4.1.7.3 use any Data, information or other content from any of our Property in any advertisements or for targeting advertisements, in any of your Products or part thereof;

I think this is not a big deal... You can't advertise Coingecko API data as yours, as far as I understand this text.

10,000 request per month is nearly 14 requests per hour, which is about 1 request each 4 minutes. It is good enough for most commercial services.