Warning: Cryptsy public API returning stale data. Don't rely on it!

[almightyruler]

Just a warning that the Cryptsy public API is completely broken; it is returning the exact same stale data each time. If you're using software which fetches order book and market data using this API, you're gonna have a bad time. It was because of a loss that I incurred that I noticed the problem.

I have personally observed the same data returned from http://pubapi2.cryptsy.com/api.php?method=orderdata (MD5 ea6f1a947a1bb124e11044198c809447) for about 36 hours, but I expect that the data is from at least a few days ago, possibly even more than a week (this is meant to be a live API!)

From a Linux/BSD commandline the following will fetch the data and report the MD5. Try it yourself:

Code:

wget -O - "http://pubapi2.cryptsy.com/api.php?method=orderdata" | md5sum

My ticket reporting this issue was open for a couple of days, then it was quietly closed without any response. You can draw your own conclusions from that.

[phatkiller]

He's right i been trying to pull DASH / BTC price for a few days and it steady at 0.006538 but when you goto the site actual price is 0.005867

Executed some trades that I wouldnt have otherwise because of this....THANKS CRYPTSY!!!!

[Migga]

fetch some data from cryptsy's public api and have a look at the "lasttradetime".
last update: 2015-12-04...
 
I have checked a few markets so far. It's all down...

e.g.: Market 2 (BTC/USD):

http://oi64.tinypic.com/2dhtoc1.jpg

The URL is: http://pubapi2.cryptsy.com/api.php?method=singlemarketdata&marketid=2

[Migga]

API's working again.

[almightyruler]

API's working again.

Good to hear.

Was a bit odd that the ticket was closed without response, not even a first level "we've passed it on to our specialists" reply.