Kpler

Kpler Facts API

Trades, vessels, and other observed fact data.

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Operations 2

GET /v1/trades List trades #

GET /v1/vessels List vessels #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Kpler Direct Access Facts API
  version: '1.0'
  description: REST API for the Kpler commodities intelligence platform, giving programmatic access to the same trades, flows, and vessel data available in the Kpler terminal.
  contact:
    name: Kpler Customer Success
    email: cs@kpler.com
    url: https://developers.kpler.com/
  x-access-model: customer-gated
  x-endpoints-modeled: true
servers:
- url: https://api.kpler.com
  description: Liquids platform (crude, CPP, DPP)
- url: https://api-lng.kpler.com
  description: LNG platform
- url: https://api-lpg.kpler.com
  description: LPG platform
- url: https://api-dry.kpler.com
  description: Dry platform (coal and dry bulk)
security:
- basicAuth: []
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Facts
  description: Trades, vessels, and other observed fact data.
paths:
  /v1/trades:
    get:
      operationId: getTrades
      tags:
      - Facts
      summary: List trades
      description: Returns cargo trades observed on the platform, with selectable columns (for example trade_id, vessel_name, start, end) and origin/destination zone filters. Kpler recommends querying this endpoint no more than once per hour and running queries sequentially.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/columns'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fromZones'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/toZones'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/startDate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/endDate'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/products'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TabularData'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /v1/vessels:
    get:
      operationId: getVessels
      tags:
      - Facts
      summary: List vessels
      description: Returns vessel data for the platform fleet - vessel identity and characteristics as tracked by Kpler. Kpler recommends querying this endpoint no more than once per hour.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/columns'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/size'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TabularData'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid Kpler client credentials.
    TabularData:
      description: Tabular result set. Responses are delivered as delimited tabular data (consumed as DataFrames by the official Python SDK); exact response schemas are documented in the customer-gated Direct Access guides.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            type: string
  parameters:
    products:
      name: products
      in: query
      description: Product filter (for example crude, gasoline, LNG).
      schema:
        type: string
    fromZones:
      name: fromZones
      in: query
      description: Origin zone filter (for example Europe).
      schema:
        type: string
    startDate:
      name: startDate
      in: query
      description: Start of the date range.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    size:
      name: size
      in: query
      description: Maximum number of rows to return.
      schema:
        type: integer
    toZones:
      name: toZones
      in: query
      description: Destination zone filter (for example Asia).
      schema:
        type: string
    endDate:
      name: endDate
      in: query
      description: End of the date range.
      schema:
        type: string
        format: date
    columns:
      name: columns
      in: query
      description: Comma-separated list of columns to return (for example trade_id,vessel_name,start,end).
      schema:
        type: string
  securitySchemes:
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: Encoded Kpler client credentials in the Authorization header.
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Token obtained from the /login endpoint.
externalDocs:
  description: Kpler Developer Portal
  url: https://developers.kpler.com/