Overview

CoinRanking offers a REST API that delivers live price, market cap, and ranking data for thousands of cryptocurrencies. Each coin is assigned a unique UUID you can use to fetch detailed stats, historical price charts, or filter coins by category. The API uses a tiered key system where a free-tier key grants enough quota for learning projects and small dashboards.

Beginner Tip

Sign up at coinranking.com to get a free API key, then pass it as an x-access-token header. Start with the /coins endpoint — it returns a ranked list of coins with prices and requires no parameters beyond your key.

Available Data

The kind of data this API exposes, based on its documentation. We could not call the endpoint to confirm the exact field names.

coin price in USD/EUR
market capitalization
24h price change
trading volume
circulating supply
Use case: Integrate live cryptocurrency data data into web and mobile applications

Example Response

Illustrative shape only — we were not able to call this endpoint (it requires credentials or exposes no public sample URL), so the fields below show the kind of data this API returns rather than a recorded response.

JSON Response · Illustrative
{
  "id": "bitcoin",
  "symbol": "btc",
  "current_price": 65432.1,
  "market_cap": 1280000000000,
  "price_change_24h": 1250.5,
  "price_change_percentage_24h": 1.95,
  "total_volume": 28500000000
}

Field Reference

data.coins[].uuid Unique identifier for the coin within the CoinRanking system; use this in detail-endpoint URLs.
data.coins[].name Full human-readable name of the cryptocurrency, e.g. Bitcoin.
data.coins[].symbol Ticker symbol such as BTC or ETH.
data.coins[].price Current USD price as a string (not a number) — convert with parseFloat() before arithmetic.
data.coins[].change Percentage price change over the past 24 hours, e.g. -2.34.
data.coins[].rank Market-cap rank at the time of the response; lower numbers indicate larger market caps.

Implementation Example

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

Request
const url = "https://developers.coinranking.com/api/documentation";
// Replace headers or query params with the values required by this API.
const response = await fetch(url, {
  headers: {
  "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
  }
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

What Can You Build?

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.

401 Unauthorized Missing or incorrect API key in the request header
Add the header x-access-token: YOUR_API_KEY to every request; do not put the key in the URL query string.
429 Too Many Requests Exceeding the free-tier rate limit (10 requests/second)
Add a short delay between requests in loops, or cache responses locally to reduce repeat calls.
Coin UUID not found Using a coin symbol (e.g. BTC) instead of the API internal UUID
First call /coins to retrieve each coin UUID, then use that UUID in detail endpoints like /coin/{uuid}/history.

Metadata Score Breakdown

Estimated from metadata — endpoint not independently tested

This score is estimated from observable metadata — HTTPS support, authentication model, declared CORS, and documentation reachability — because the API requires authentication or exposes no publicly testable endpoint. The five-signal breakdown is only shown for live-tested APIs.

Metadata estimate · endpoint not independently tested

Technical Specifications

Auth API Key
HTTPS REQUIRED
CORS UNKNOWN
Category Cryptocurrency
Difficulty Intermediate
Listing details not endpoint-verified

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