Historical Bitcoin price data per minute

[Martijntjuh]

Hi guys,

For my thesis I'm looking for historical price data of bitcoin on a minute per minute basis.
So far I've been able to find daily Bitcoin prices but i need a higher frequency.
A hourly interval would probably already suffice.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Please forgive me if I posted this on the wrong board.

[LittleBitFunny]

You should look at Coindesk's price charts.  It lets you zoom in and choose the exact dates you want to check the price between, and you can choose to look at each individual exchange as well so it should be everything you need.

[Martijntjuh]

You should look at Coindesk's price charts.  It lets you zoom in and choose the exact dates you want to check the price between, and you can choose to look at each individual exchange as well so it should be everything you need.

Thank you for your reply.
It was not clear from my original post, but I need the data in a csv or something similar.

I used Coindesk to retrieve the daily prices but was not able to retrieve minute prices. When I select a small time frame like 2 days it will download the minute price data, but when you select a bigger time frame it will download daily prices. Downloading it for every day separately doesn't seem feasible.

Minute prices also didn't seem available trough their API.

[piloder]

You can check https://blockchain.info/markets
There is small setting link on top right corner of the chart, you can select M1 for minute based charts.

[Martijntjuh]

You can check https://blockchain.info/markets
There is small setting link on top right corner of the chart, you can select M1 for minute based charts.

Thank you, but I need historical data. Preferably data that goes back to 2012 which can also be downloaded.

[easynote]

Not sure how you would get those charts unless you dig around the speculation board of this forum.

[Kanapka]

you need the graphs or raw date with time:value only?

would be a big file anyway

[pedrog]

Hi guys,

For my thesis I'm looking for historical price data of bitcoin on a minute per minute basis.
So far I've been able to find daily Bitcoin prices but i need a higher frequency.
A hourly interval would probably already suffice.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Please forgive me if I posted this on the wrong board.

Here you go:

https://bitcoincharts.com/charts/bitstampUSD#rg150zigHourlyztgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

Hourly you get 5 month periods, for 1 minute you get 3 days periods.

[pooya87]

it has been 8 years since bitcoin was created and i think it has been in 2011 that exchanges really started working so 6 years of data and i doubt that any place is holding that much raw data (6 y * 365 d * 24 h * 60 m) and we are talking about OHLC data which is 5 times more (O+H+L+C+ time) not to mention all the overhead JSON has.

with that said i have seen once, someone asked in speculation board for such data and someone gave him some dump of about a couple of gigabytes that he could download. maybe try that here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0

[noictib]

it has been 8 years since bitcoin was created and i think it has been in 2011 that exchanges really started working so 6 years of data and i doubt that any place is holding that much raw data (6 y * 365 d * 24 h * 60 m) and we are talking about OHLC data which is 5 times more (O+H+L+C+ time) not to mention all the overhead JSON has.

with that said i have seen once, someone asked in speculation board for such data and someone gave him some dump of about a couple of gigabytes that he could download. maybe try that here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0

I think you made some misunderstanding   because the existence of the bitcoin is from they beginning of the year 2008  and about it take about 9 years for the bitcoin but here I think you can't​ found the accurate detail about the bitcoin price per minute , it is because in the starting of the 2008-2010 most of the sites were engaged to develop thier business not to see at the price , so probably per minute data to find is hard .
But the main main part in the time interval where the Price changes more are news from the history ( you can see some blogs ) .

Here I will suggest you to move your topic in the speculation​ , Because this thread doesn't belong to the mining .

[sikke]

Not sure how you would get those charts unless you dig around the speculation board of this forum.

That would not make a job correctly, I cannot even imagine how much time he would have to spend for finding the charts he is actually looking for.
Of course, if they even exist over here, because nobody can know that, until the time that someone will check it, but there are simply too many pages of posts to find the exact thing he is looking for.

I really would like to see some kind of bitcoin chart data, the same as we have at meta trader 4.
You can literally put many different time frames, with different size of the candles and this is what im really looking for, because i dont care about any indicators, I need clear chart that operates really quick, because im a scalper.

I think that would work for you too OP.

[Velkro]

Thank you for your reply.
It was not clear from my original post, but I need the data in a csv or something similar.

You need big data set here. Probably check where bitcoinwisdom gets data (i bet that from exchanges) so you could too.
Try some biggest exchanges api. You could download through it all data needed.

[Martijntjuh]

You can check https://blockchain.info/markets
There is small setting link on top right corner of the chart, you can select M1 for minute based charts.

Thanks, but I don't have much use for a chart I need the raw data.

You need big data set here. Probably check where bitcoinwisdom gets data (i bet that from exchanges) so you could too.
Try some biggest exchanges api. You could download through it all data needed.

Yes, it would be a huge data set. I checked the API's of the biggest exchanges to no avail. Coindesk seems to have the data available. When you select a certain date and download the data you get he minute data. Unfortunately they don't have an option to extract that. I shall take a look at BitcoinWisdom. Through https://www.cryptocompare.com/api/#-api-data-pricehistorical- I've been able to extract hourly historical data but there seem to be several errors in the data.  

Edit: BitcoinWisdom doesn't seem to have historical data nor an api

[freedomno1]

Not SPV But Chartbuddy does have stuff from 2014 on at an hourly basis not CSV though
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=110685;sa=showPosts;start=12540
Would suggest using a crawler on that ...

Older Data not quite sure could try the API from bitcoincharts
http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/
But only the last 30 days day is standard so quite the challenge
http://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/30d?c=e&r=hour&t=b

Either way good luck on your hunt.

[DannyHamilton]

If you aren't willing to put some effort into it, you're going to spend a lot of time searching form someone that has already put all the effort in for you.

If you are willing to put some effort into it, then you can use:
https://bitcoincharts.com/charts

Most of the charts there will let you choose an hourly time period for any range less than 6 months.

Beneath the graph you can click the "load raw data" link to get the raw data in table format.

You can then copy/paste that raw data into a spreadsheet program such as Excel and export it as a CSV.

Assuming you want everything from 2012-01-01 through now, that's 64 months.  At 5 months per copy/paste effort, you're looking at having to repeat the process 13 times to get all the data for a given exchange.

You should be able to get data from more than one exchange if you want to compute your own weighted average price (since there is no "official price" and the price can vary between exchanges).

[Martijntjuh]

If you are willing to put some effort into it, then you can use:
https://bitcoincharts.com/charts

Thanks, I did exactly as you suggested which worked great for the hourly data! I'm now trying to figure out if it will be possible to make a crawler for the 5-min data. It seems I would need to make a Javascript crawler though.