Where to get the best API for altcoin price?

[tech72]

Hi,

I wanted to create a new website, it's something like CMC (coinmarketcap), but in better version & interface.

My question is, what are the best source for me to pull the data (coin price) through API?

I know we got lots of sources such as:

- coinmarketcap.com
- coincap.io
- coinapi.io (not free)
- worldcoinindex.com

..and many more.

But i need the best source for...

1. Very accurate price
2. Stable
3. Support more coin
4. Support more exchange

I know i can also pull the api / data straight from the exchange websites for more stable and accurate price. But the problem is, there's too many exchange sites.

Do you have any other solution?

Thank you very much!

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[OmegaStarScream]

It wouldn't make any sense to create a better version of CoinMarketCap and use their API. If you are serious about the project and you don't want to encounter issues in the future. I suggest pulling the price from different exchanges and calculate the average yourself and since you think there are too many, try to take the most known ones: Poloniex, Bittrex, Binance, HitBtc, Huobi. I see no other options honestly, so either take it from the sites you mentioned (which I don't recommend as they are competitors) or exchanges like I said.

[tech72]

It wouldn't make any sense to create a better version of CoinMarketCap and use their API. If you are serious about the project and you don't want to encounter issues in the future. I suggest pulling the price from different exchanges and calculate the average yourself and since you think there are too many, try to take the most known ones: Poloniex, Bittrex, Binance, HitBtc, Huobi. I see no other options honestly, so either take it from the sites you mentioned (which I don't recommend as they are competitors) or exchanges like I said.

Thank you. But how about coinapi.io? It's not free, but I never try it yet.
I can pull the API data from any exchange for the coin price. No problem with that..
But this is the hardest part... (exchange data): https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

[Gatzuma]

CoinAPI looks very interesting. Did you already try it for the service?

And yet another thing to consideration - will you use aggreagated data like OHLCV or raw data ticks to compute them by yourself?

[IonicTong]

https://www.cryptocompare.com/api/

In my opinion this is the most easy to integrate, offers historical data and is free to use.

[tht222]

I am working on a crypto site with somewhat similar functionality and I opted in for using the exchange APIs. I added the top 30 exchanges can calling the ticker for the top 100 coins. I think this is the best way since I don't rely on just one API and if one of them goes, it won't kill my entire site.

[Wipro]

There are various payment API service in the market. I suggest to go with the Coingate or Bitpay. Most of the large scale ecommerce site recently adopted the bitcoin as the payment mode. They have added Coingate and Bitpay only.

I have recently paid for perfectmine license amount using the Coingate API only.
Once transaction reflected to dynamic address for the concern IP. It picks up.

[Gatzuma]

From my own investigations CoinAPI and CryptoCompare both seems like stable and easy-to-use sources for crypto rates historical / real-time data.

[Musstang]

Hi,

I wanted to create a new website, it's something like CMC (coinmarketcap), but in better version & interface.

My question is, what are the best source for me to pull the data (coin price) through API?

I know we got lots of sources such as:

- coinmarketcap.com
- coincap.io
- coinapi.io (not free)
- worldcoinindex.com

..and many more.

But i need the best source for...

1. Very accurate price
2. Stable
3. Support more coin
4. Support more exchange

I know i can also pull the api / data straight from the exchange websites for more stable and accurate price. But the problem is, there's too many exchange sites.

Do you have any other solution?

Thank you very much!

Now I'm doing a similar project.
The sites you mentioned are not bad, and they have a good API. A large amount of data that can be pulled out and even built analytics.

[kniagolo]

There is a product on the market already, that has multi-blockchain integrations & over 100 exchanges data ,by the name of https://cryptoapis.io/ . It has numerous features and is focused on interoperability within the crypto and blockchain world.

[nesiroo]

You can checkout https://coinograph.io for real-time and historical data for major exchanges

[tech72]

UPDATE:

What are the best provider for historical data?

That support ..
OHLCV
Websockets
Order Book
etc

I already search many of them such as nomics , shrimpy ,  coinmarketcap , wyre , coincap , coinapi.io , coingecko , kaiko(din't check yet)
But most of them are not perfect or either very expensive, no websockets, no OHLCV 

While for real time data, do you think is it possible to use CCXT?
Even though most of people are only use CCXT for bot or data analyst

Never heard anyone use CCXT to make coin aggregate website like CMC or other coin index does.

If anyone can help me finding the best solution and idea for both problem.
I'll give you $100 worth of BTC

Thanks.

[tardis_thad]

Please check out https://tardis.dev as well. For real-time normalized WebSocket data you can try https://github.com/tardis-dev/tardis-node as CCXT alternative.