Kraken Transparency API
The Transparency API from Kraken — 2 operation(s) for transparency.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: REST Transparency API
version: 1.1.0
description: ''
servers:
- url: https://api.kraken.com/0
description: Production Server
security:
- API-Key: []
API-Sign: []
tags:
- name: Transparency
paths:
/public/PreTrade:
get:
summary: Pre-Trade Data
description: 'Returns the price levels in the order book with aggregated order quantities at each price level.
The top 10 levels are returned for each trading pair.'
tags:
- Transparency
operationId: getPreTrade
security: []
parameters:
- name: symbol
in: query
required: true
description: A list of symbols for the currency pairs.
example: BTC/USD
schema:
type: string
minLength: 3
maxLength: 32
responses:
'200':
description: The top price levels of the aggregated order book.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/pre-trade'
/public/PostTrade:
get:
summary: Post-Trade Data
description: 'Returns a list of trades on the spot exchange.
If no filter parameters are specified, the last 1000 trades for all pairs are received.'
tags:
- Transparency
operationId: getPostTrade
security: []
parameters:
- name: symbol
in: query
required: false
description: Filter the results to the currency pair.
example: BTC/USD
schema:
type: string
- name: from_ts
in: query
description: Filter the results to include the trades *after* this timestamp.
required: false
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456789Z'
schema:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
- name: to_ts
in: query
description: Filter the results to include the trades *before or at* this timestamp.
required: false
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456789Z'
schema:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
- name: count
in: query
required: false
description: The maximum number of trades to return.
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 1
maximum: 1000
default: 1000
responses:
'200':
description: Post-trade data retrieved.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/post-trade'
components:
schemas:
pre-trade:
title: PreTradeResponse
type: object
properties:
result:
description: An aggregated order book.
type: object
properties:
symbol:
type: string
maxLength: 32
description: The symbol of the currency pair.
example: BTC/USD
description:
type: string
maxLength: 350
description: The full description of the currency pair.
example: Bitcoin / US Dollars
base_asset:
type: string
format: ISO 4217
description: Currency code for the base asset.
example: BTC
base_dti_code:
type: string
description: Digital Token Identifier (DTI) code for the base asset.
base_dti_short_name:
type: string
description: DTI short name for the base asset.
quote_dti_code:
type: string
description: Digital Token Identifier (DTI) code for the quote asset.
quote_dti_short_name:
type: string
description: DTI short name for the quote asset.
base_notation:
type: string
description: Indicates how the quantity is expressed.
enum:
- UNIT
- NOML
quote_asset:
type: string
format: ISO 4217
description: Currency in which the trading price is expressed.
example: USD
quote_notation:
type: string
description: Indicates that the price is expressed in monetary value.
enum:
- MONE
venue:
type: string
format: ISO 10383
description: Market Identifier Code (MIC) of the trading platform where the order was submitted.
enum:
- PGSL
system:
type: string
description: Indicates the order system is a Central Limit Order Book.
enum:
- CLOB
bids:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
side:
type: string
description: Indicates whether the price level is a bid (BUY) or offer (SELL).
enum:
- BUY
price:
type: string
description: Price level in the Central Limit Order Book (CLOB).
example: '102002.1'
qty:
type: string
description: The aggregated quantity at the price level.
example: '102002.1'
count:
type: integer
description: The number of orders in the price level.
minLength: 1
submission_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the order at this price level was submitted.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456Z'
publication_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the price level was last updated and published.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456Z'
asks:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
side:
type: string
description: Indicates whether the price level is a bid (BUY) or offer (SELL).
enum:
- SELL
price:
type: string
description: Price level in the Central Limit Order Book (CLOB).
example: '102002.1'
qty:
type: string
description: The aggregated quantity at the price level.
example: '102002.1'
count:
type: integer
description: The number of orders in the price level.
minLength: 1
submission_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the order at this price level was submitted.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456Z'
publication_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the price level was last updated and published.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456Z'
error:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
post-trade:
title: PostTradeResponse
description: A list of trades. A maximum of `count` trades will be returned in a single query, as specified in the query parameters.
type: object
properties:
result:
type: object
properties:
last_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: "Timestamp of the latest trade in the list. \nThis field can be used as the `from_ts` parameter when requesting the next batch of trades.\n"
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456789Z'
count:
type: integer
description: The number of trades returned.
minimum: 0
maximum: 1000
trades:
type: array
description: A list of trades in ascending timestamp order.
items:
type: object
format: Trade
minItems: 0
maxItems: 1000
properties:
trade_id:
type: string
maxLength: 19
description: Kraken unique trade identifier.
example: TGBB7L-HT5LX-J3BZ4A
price:
type: string
description: Trade price excluding fees and commissions.
example: '102002.1'
quantity:
type: string
description: Unconsolidated trade quantity from execution.
example: '1.24'
symbol:
type: string
maxLength: 32
description: The symbol of the currency pair.
example: BTC/USD
description:
type: string
maxLength: 350
description: The full description of the currency pair.
example: Bitcoin / US Dollars
base_asset:
type: string
format: ISO 4217
description: Currency code for the base asset.
example: BTC
base_notation:
type: string
description: Indicates that the quantity is expressed in nominal value.
enum:
- UNIT
quote_asset:
type: string
format: ISO 4217
description: Currency in which the trading price is expressed.
example: USD
quote_notation:
type: string
description: Indicates that the price is expressed in monetary value.
enum:
- MONE
trade_venue:
type: string
format: ISO 10383
maxLength: 12
description: Market Identifier Code (MIC) of the trading platform where the trade was executed.
example: PGSL
trade_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the trade was matched in the engine to microsecond precision.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456789Z'
publication_venue:
type: string
format: ISO 10383
maxLength: 12
description: Market Identifier Code (MIC) of the trading platform where the trade was published.
example: PGSL
publication_ts:
type: string
format: ISO 8601
description: Timestamp the trade was published to market data streams.
example: '2024-05-30T12:34:56.123456789Z'
error:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/error'
error:
type: array
items:
description: Kraken API error
type: string
example: EGeneral:Invalid arguments
securitySchemes:
API-Key:
type: apiKey
description: The "API-Key" header should contain your API key.
name: API-Key
in: header
API-Sign:
type: apiKey
description: Authenticated requests should be signed with the "API-Sign" header, using a signature generated with your private key, nonce, encoded payload, and URI path.
name: API-Sign
in: header
API-Nonce:
type: apiKey
description: The "API-Nonce" header should contain an always-increasing 64-bit integer, most commonly a Unix timestamp in milliseconds. Each request must use a nonce greater than the nonce of the previous request signed with the same API key.
name: API-Nonce
in: header
API-OTP:
type: apiKey
description: The "API-OTP" header should contain your two-factor authentication one-time password. Required only if 2FA is configured for the API key.
name: API-OTP
in: header
x-tagGroups:
- name: Public Endpoints
tags:
- Market Data
- Transparency
- name: Authenticated Endpoints
tags:
- Account Data
- Trading
- funding-beta
- Funding
- Subaccounts
- Earn
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Kraken
source: https://www.kraken.com/openapi.json
note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)