Learn to quickly turn free cryptocurrency historical data into an API in under a minute.
Why are people looking for historical data on cryptocurrency?
- Market Analysis and Research: Traders and investors analyze historical data to identify trends, patterns, and volatility in the cryptocurrency markets.
- Algorithmic Trading: Developers and traders use historical data to backtest trading algorithms and strategies. By simulating how these strategies would have performed in the past, they can refine them to improve future performance.
- Valuation Models: Analysts use historical data to develop and refine cryptocurrency valuation models.
So, where can I get free data?
I spent some time finding the historical data of cryptocurrencies that I wanted to use to find patterns. There are many offers on the Internet, of course, for pennies, and the price ranges from $99 - $1999 per month.
All services offer access to data through an API that has its limitations. I want to get all historical cryptocurrency data for a specific daily time frame, and this is where some limitations come into play.
Here you can get historical data free in CSV format organized by Exchanges (CEX)
- ⏩ All Data sets ⏪
- Gemini exchange data
- Coinbase exchange data
- Kraken exchange data
- bitstamp exchange data
- Cexio exchange data
- Bitfinex exchange data
How to convert CSV data to API? It's easy.
Use this CSV API builder to build your API in less than 1 minute.
Step 1
Open URL and upload the data, for example Binance_BTCUSDT_d.csv
Step 2
Click the button "next" to get the API
Limitations
- Only the first 100 rows of your dataset will be used
- Your sample API may be deleted if it has not been used in the last 30 days.
Next steps
- To avoid limitations, create a free account
- Write an application using the retool or similar to start experiments.
- Transferring data to a database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL can improve application performance significantly.
- Update the database on a regular basis.
