Crypto Prices

Get live cryptocurrency prices, 24-hour change, market cap, and trading volume for 20+ major coins. Prices are sourced from CoinGecko and cached for up to 5 minutes.

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Overview

Use Cases

Crypto portfolio dashboards
Price alert systems
Financial apps and widgets
Trading bots and analytics tools

Features

20+ supported coins: BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, and more

24-hour price change percentage

Market cap and trading volume

Results cached for 5 minutes for low latency

API Endpoints

Get Crypto Price

Returns current price data for the given cryptocurrency symbol.

GET

https://api.requiems.xyz/v1/finance/crypto/{symbol}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
symbol	`string`	Required	Uppercase ticker symbol (e.g. BTC, ETH, SOL)

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Request

symbol * (string)

Uppercase ticker symbol (e.g. BTC, ETH, SOL)

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
symbol	`string`	Uppercase ticker symbol
name	`string`	Full coin name
price_usd	`number`	Current price in USD
change_24h	`number`	Price change over the last 24 hours as a percentage
market_cap	`number`	Total market capitalisation in USD
volume_24h	`number`	Total trading volume over the last 24 hours in USD

Code Examples

curl https://api.requiems.xyz/v1/finance/crypto/BTC \
  -H "requiems-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

import requests

url = "https://api.requiems.xyz/v1/finance/crypto/BTC"
headers = {"requiems-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
data = response.json()["data"]
print(f"{data['name']}: ${data['price_usd']:,.2f}")

const response = await fetch('https://api.requiems.xyz/v1/finance/crypto/BTC', {
  headers: { 'requiems-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' }
});

const { data } = await response.json();
console.log(`${data.name}: $${data.price_usd.toLocaleString()}`);

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://api.requiems.xyz/v1/finance/crypto/BTC')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['requiems-api-key'] = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end

data = JSON.parse(response.body)['data']
puts "#{data['name']}: $#{data['price_usd']}"

Error Responses

unknown_symbol

The symbol is not in the supported coin list.

upstream_error

CoinGecko is unavailable or returned an unexpected response.

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