CoinGecko Categories API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: CoinGecko Crypto Market Data Asset Platforms Categories API
  description: The CoinGecko Crypto Market Data API provides comprehensive and reliable cryptocurrency price and market data through RESTful JSON endpoints. It offers over 70 endpoints covering real-time and historical prices, trading volumes, market capitalization, OHLCV data, exchange information, NFT metrics, derivatives data, and public treasury holdings for over 18,000 coins. The Demo API plan provides free access with 30 calls per minute to a subset of 30 publicly accessible endpoints.
  version: 3.0.1
  contact:
    name: CoinGecko Support
    url: https://support.coingecko.com
  termsOfService: https://www.coingecko.com/en/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3
  description: CoinGecko Demo API Server
security:
- demoApiKeyHeader: []
- demoApiKeyQuery: []
tags:
- name: Categories
  description: List cryptocurrency categories and their market data.
paths:
  /coins/categories/list:
    get:
      operationId: getCoinsCategoriesList
      summary: List all categories (ID map)
      description: Get the complete list of all supported coin categories with their IDs and names. Use this to obtain category IDs for filtering in other endpoints.
      tags:
      - Categories
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    category_id:
                      type: string
                      description: Category identifier
                    name:
                      type: string
                      description: Category display name
  /coins/categories:
    get:
      operationId: getCoinsCategories
      summary: List categories with market data
      description: Get the list of all coin categories with market data including market cap, volume, and top coins in each category.
      tags:
      - Categories
      parameters:
      - name: order
        in: query
        description: Sort order for categories
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - market_cap_desc
          - market_cap_asc
          - name_desc
          - name_asc
          - market_cap_change_24h_desc
          - market_cap_change_24h_asc
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/Category'
components:
  schemas:
    Category:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Category identifier
        name:
          type: string
          description: Category display name
        market_cap:
          type: number
          description: Total market cap of coins in this category
        market_cap_change_24h:
          type: number
          description: 24-hour market cap change percentage
        content:
          type: string
          description: Category description
        top_3_coins:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
            format: uri
          description: Image URLs of top 3 coins in the category
        volume_24h:
          type: number
          description: 24-hour trading volume
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: Last update timestamp
  securitySchemes:
    demoApiKeyHeader:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-cg-demo-api-key
      description: CoinGecko Demo API key passed via request header. Obtain a free key from the CoinGecko developer dashboard.
    demoApiKeyQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: x_cg_demo_api_key
      description: CoinGecko Demo API key passed via query string parameter.
externalDocs:
  description: CoinGecko API Documentation
  url: https://docs.coingecko.com