CoinMarketCap Crypto Scraper

Scrapes real-time cryptocurrency data from CoinMarketCap, delivering prices, market caps, volumes, rankings, and historical price changes for thousands of coins and tokens.

Overview

This actor extracts structured cryptocurrency data from CoinMarketCap. You can configure it to scrape a specific range of assets, sort by various metrics, filter by type, and convert prices into multiple currencies. The output is a dataset of detailed, timestamped records ready for analysis, tracking, or integration into other systems.

Key Features

• Real-time Data: Fetches current prices, market capitalization, and 24-hour trading volume.
• Comprehensive Metrics: Includes price change percentages for 1h, 24h, 7d, 30d, 60d, 90d, and 1y periods.
• Flexible Filtering & Sorting:
  • Filter results to show all assets, only coins, or only tokens.
  • Sort by market cap, 24h volume, price changes, or name in ascending or descending order.
• Pagination: Scrape any specific segment of the rankings using start and limit parameters.
• Multi-Currency Support: Convert price data to USD, EUR, GBP, BTC, and other supported fiat or crypto currencies.

How to Use

Configure the actor using the following input parameters. Run it to receive a dataset containing the scraped cryptocurrency records.

Input Parameters

Output

The actor outputs a dataset where each item is a detailed JSON record for a single cryptocurrency. Key fields include:

• Identifiers: id, name, symbol, slug, rank
• Financials: price, marketCap, volume24h
• Price Changes: percentChange1h, percentChange24h, percentChange7d, etc.
• Supply Data: circulatingSupply, totalSupply, maxSupply
• Metadata: tags, dateAdded, platform (for tokens)
• Context: currency (conversion currency), scrapedAt (timestamp)

Example Output Record

{
  "id": 1,
  "rank": 1,
  "name": "Bitcoin",
  "symbol": "BTC",
  "slug": "bitcoin",
  "price": 95000.50,
  "marketCap": 1875000000000,
  "volume24h": 45000000000,
  "percentChange1h": 0.15,
  "percentChange24h": 2.35,
  "circulatingSupply": 19700000,
  "tags": ["mineable", "pow", "store-of-value"],
  "currency": "USD",
  "scrapedAt": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Common Use Cases

• Portfolio Tracking: Automatically monitor the value and performance of holdings.
• Market Analysis: Feed data into tools for trend analysis, correlation studies, or volume analysis.
• Research & Data Collection: Gather clean, structured datasets for academic or commercial research.
• Trading Systems: Provide real-time or historical price data to trading algorithms and bots.
• Dashboard & Visualization: Populate internal dashboards, websites, or data visualizations with live market data.