# Cryptocurrency Price Tracker - Coinbase (`scrupulous_waterbird_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices`) Actor

Fetch live cryptocurrency tickers or historical OHLCV candles for Coinbase products such as BTC-USD and ETH-USD. Keyless public API with bid, ask, volume, trade, and candle fields.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrupulous\_waterbird\_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [Mori](https://apify.com/scrupulous_waterbird_m4w) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 3 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per usage

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

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# README

## Cryptocurrency Price Tracker

Live and historical cryptocurrency prices from Coinbase Exchange public API.
Tickers and OHLCV candles for any Coinbase product (e.g. `BTC-USD`, `ETH-USD`,
`SOL-USD`, `DOGE-USD`).

### What it does

- Fetches live ticker (bid / ask / last-trade / 24h volume) for each product ID.
- Fetches historical OHLCV candles at Coinbase-supported granularities
  (60s, 5m, 15m, 1h, 6h, 1d).
- Pure-JSON API wrapper — no browser, no proxy, no credentials.

### Input

| Field | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `productIds` | yes | `BTC-USD,ETH-USD` | Comma- or pipe-separated Coinbase product IDs |
| `mode` | no | `ticker` | `ticker` or `candles` |
| `granularity` | no | `3600` | Candle size in seconds (ignored in ticker mode) |
| `maxItems` | no | `10` | Cap on total records emitted (1–100) |

### Output

One record per product (ticker mode) or per candle (candles mode). Ticker record:

```json
{
  "productId": "BTC-USD",
  "mode": "ticker",
  "price": "64152.43",
  "bid": "64152.43",
  "ask": "64152.44",
  "volume": "2581.03105727",
  "tradeId": "1054802265",
  "time": "2026-07-12T20:25:13.129347538Z",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products/BTC-USD/ticker",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-12T20:25:14.000Z"
}
```

Candle record:

```json
{
  "productId": "BTC-USD",
  "mode": "candles",
  "granularity": "3600",
  "intervalStart": "2026-07-12T20:00:00.000Z",
  "open": "64193.87",
  "high": "64219.68",
  "low": "64130.1",
  "close": "64155.48",
  "volume": "17.15557691",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products/BTC-USD/candles?granularity=3600",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-07-12T20:25:14.000Z"
}
```

### Source

- Coinbase Exchange public REST API — `https://api.exchange.coinbase.com`
- Keyless, no auth, no captcha, no rate-limit wall on free tier.

### Changelog

- 0.1.0 — initial release.

# Actor input Schema

## `productIds` (type: `string`):

Comma- or pipe-separated list of Coinbase product IDs (e.g. 'BTC-USD,ETH-USD'). Default BTC-USD,ETH-USD.

## `mode` (type: `string`):

ticker returns live bid/ask/last-trade/volume; candles returns historical OHLCV bars.

## `granularity` (type: `integer`):

Candle size in seconds. Coinbase supports 60, 300, 900, 3600, 21600, 86400. Ignored in ticker mode.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Cap on total records emitted (1-100). For candles mode the cap is distributed evenly across productIds.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "productIds": "BTC-USD,ETH-USD",
  "mode": "ticker",
  "granularity": 3600,
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `productId` (type: `string`):

No description

## `mode` (type: `string`):

No description

## `price` (type: `string`):

No description

## `bid` (type: `string`):

No description

## `ask` (type: `string`):

No description

## `volume` (type: `string`):

No description

## `tradeId` (type: `string`):

No description

## `time` (type: `string`):

No description

## `granularity` (type: `string`):

No description

## `intervalStart` (type: `string`):

No description

## `open` (type: `string`):

No description

## `high` (type: `string`):

No description

## `low` (type: `string`):

No description

## `close` (type: `string`):

No description

## `sourceUrl` (type: `string`):

No description

## `fetchedAt` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrupulous_waterbird_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrupulous_waterbird_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call scrupulous_waterbird_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrupulous_waterbird_m4w/cryptocurrency-prices",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/aAA9hO5fxQQgibzZO/builds/WIHEvg8tgh3FkwsdM/openapi.json