Alpaca Market Data - Crypto API

Historical and latest crypto bars, trades, quotes, and orderbooks (v1beta3).

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alpaca-markets-market-data-crypto-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Alpaca API (Trading, Market Data, Broker) Account Market Data - Crypto API
  description: A grounded, curated OpenAPI description of Alpaca's public REST surface. Alpaca is a developer-first, commission-free brokerage whose stock, ETF, options, and crypto trading and market data are exposed entirely through APIs. This document covers the three REST products - the Trading API (api.alpaca.markets/v2, with a free paper sandbox at paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2), the Market Data API (data.alpaca.markets, with v2 stocks, v1beta3 crypto, and v1beta1 options/news/screener namespaces), and the Broker API (broker-api.alpaca.markets/v1). Real-time WebSocket streaming for market data is described in the companion AsyncAPI document at asyncapi/alpaca-markets-asyncapi.yml. Trading and Market Data authenticate with the APCA-API-KEY-ID and APCA-API-SECRET-KEY headers (or OAuth2 for third-party apps); the Broker API uses HTTP Basic auth. This spec is a representative subset of the full API for discovery purposes, not an exhaustive vendor specification.
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Alpaca
    url: https://alpaca.markets
  license:
    name: API documentation - Alpaca Terms of Service
    url: https://alpaca.markets/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.alpaca.markets/v2
  description: Trading API - live
- url: https://paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2
  description: Trading API - paper (free sandbox)
- url: https://data.alpaca.markets
  description: Market Data API
- url: https://broker-api.alpaca.markets/v1
  description: Broker API - production
security:
- apcaKey: []
  apcaSecret: []
tags:
- name: Market Data - Crypto
  description: Historical and latest crypto bars, trades, quotes, and orderbooks (v1beta3).
paths:
  /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/bars:
    servers:
    - url: https://data.alpaca.markets
      description: Market Data API
    get:
      operationId: getCryptoBars
      tags:
      - Market Data - Crypto
      summary: Get historical crypto bars
      description: Returns aggregate OHLCV bars for crypto pairs. Full path is https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/bars, where loc is the market location, for example us.
      parameters:
      - name: loc
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          default: us
        description: Crypto market location, for example us.
      - name: symbols
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Comma-separated crypto pairs, for example BTC/USD,ETH/USD.
      - name: timeframe
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Bar aggregation, for example 1Min, 1Hour, 1Day.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Historical crypto bars keyed by symbol.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
  /v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/orderbooks:
    servers:
    - url: https://data.alpaca.markets
      description: Market Data API
    get:
      operationId: getCryptoLatestOrderbooks
      tags:
      - Market Data - Crypto
      summary: Get latest crypto orderbooks
      description: Returns the latest Level 2 orderbook for one or more crypto pairs. Full path is https://data.alpaca.markets/v1beta3/crypto/{loc}/latest/orderbooks.
      parameters:
      - name: loc
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          default: us
        description: Crypto market location, for example us.
      - name: symbols
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Comma-separated crypto pairs.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Latest orderbooks keyed by symbol.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apcaKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: APCA-API-KEY-ID
      description: Alpaca API key ID. Paired with APCA-API-SECRET-KEY.
    apcaSecret:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: APCA-API-SECRET-KEY
      description: Alpaca API secret key. Paired with APCA-API-KEY-ID.
    brokerBasic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Broker API HTTP Basic auth using your Broker API key as username and secret as password.