Crypto Price API

The Crypto Price API provides access to live market prices for several hundred different cryptocurrencies.

/v1/cryptoprice GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/cryptoprice

Returns the current price and current time (in UNIX timestamp in seconds) for any cryptocurrency symbol.

Parameters

  • symbol  required

    Cryptocurrency symbol (e.g. LTCBTC). To get the full list of available symbols, use the Crypto Symbols API.

Headers

  • X-Api-Key  required

    API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request Live Demo!

symbol
https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/cryptoprice?symbol=LTCBTC

Sample Response

JSON
1 2 3 4 5 { "symbol": "LTCBTC", "price": "0.00381400", "timestamp": 1637809196 }

Code Examples

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 import requests symbol = 'LTCBTC' api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/cryptoprice?symbol={}'.format(symbol) response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'}) if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok: print(response.text) else: print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.