CoinMarketCap API

Overview

Measurement Record

What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.

Request

GET https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/trial-pro-api/v1/cryptocurrency/listings/latest

Result

HTTP 200 · application/json · 132,540 bytes · compressed

Response time

43 ms (median of 3) · fastest 36 ms

Transport

TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 · certificate issued by Amazon

Browser CORS

No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header — call it from a server, not the browser

Served by

Tengine

Recorded

2026-08-10

Fields Returned

Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.

Captured Response

Captured from a real request to https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/trial-pro-api/v1/cryptocurrency/listings/latest on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Bitcoin",
      "symbol": "BTC",
      "slug": "bitcoin",
      "infinite_supply": false,
      "circulating_supply": 20068450,
      "total_supply": 20068450,
      "max_supply": 21000000,
      "date_added": "2010-07-13T00:00:00.000Z",
      "num_market_pairs": 12693,
      "cmc_rank": 1,
      "last_updated": "2026-08-10T19:48:00.000Z",
      "tvl_ratio": null,
      "platform": null,
      "…": "(5 more fields)"
    }
  ],
  "status": {
    "timestamp": "2026-08-10T19:49:36.208Z",
    "error_code": 0,
    "error_message": null,
    "elapsed": 88,
    "credit_count": 1,
    "total_count": 8046,
    "notice": null
  }
}

Implementation Example

Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.

// Get latest cryptocurrency listings
const url = "https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/listings/latest";

const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
    "X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();

console.log(`Total cryptocurrencies: ${data.status.total_count}`);
data.data.slice(0, 5).forEach(coin => {
  console.log(`${coin.name} (${coin.symbol}): $${coin.quote.USD.price.toFixed(2)} | Market Cap: $${(coin.quote.USD.market_cap / 1e9).toFixed(2)}B`);
});

import requests

# Get latest cryptocurrency listings
url = "https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/listings/latest"
headers = {"X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

print(f"Total cryptocurrencies: {data['status']['total_count']}")
for coin in data['data'][:5]:
    price = coin['quote']['USD']['price']
    market_cap = coin['quote']['USD']['market_cap'] / 1e9
    print(f"{coin['name']} ({coin['symbol']}): ${price:.2f} | Market Cap: ${market_cap:.2f}B")

curl -H "X-CMC_PRO_API_KEY: YOUR_API_KEY" "https://pro-api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/cryptocurrency/quotes/latest?symbol=BTC&convert=USD"

What Can You Build?

// Fetch current cryptocurrency prices
const headers = { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' };
const response = await fetch(`https://coinmarketcap.com/api`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const coins = data.data || data.coins || data;
const top5 = Array.isArray(coins) ? coins.slice(0, 5) : [coins];
top5.forEach(coin => {
  console.log(`${coin.name || coin.symbol}: $${coin.price || coin.current_price}`);
});

// Track portfolio value with current prices
const headers = { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' };
const holdings = { BTC: 0.5, ETH: 2.0 };
const response = await fetch(`https://coinmarketcap.com/api`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
let total = 0;
Object.entries(holdings).forEach(([symbol, amount]) => {
  const price = data[symbol]?.usd || 0;
  total += price * amount;
  console.log(`${symbol}: ${amount} x $${price} = $${(price * amount).toFixed(2)}`);
});
console.log(`Total portfolio value: $${total.toFixed(2)}`);

// Monitor price and trigger alerts
const headers = { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY' };
const ALERT_THRESHOLD = 50000;
const response = await fetch(`https://coinmarketcap.com/api`, { headers });
const data = await response.json();
const price = data.price || data.bitcoin?.usd || 0;
console.log(`Current BTC price: $${price}`);
if (price > ALERT_THRESHOLD) {
  console.log('🚀 Price alert: BTC is above $' + ALERT_THRESHOLD);
}

Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.

Common Errors & Troubleshooting

Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.