What are the authoritative sources for historic Bitcoin prices?
Ideally this will be an API for all major exchanges.
asked Sep 22, 2012 at 16:52
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All historical data from any exchange available at Bitcoin Charts: Markets API
Historic Trade Data
Trade data is available as CSV, delayed by approx. 15 minutes. It will return the 2000 most recent trades. Format:
https://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=SYMBOL[&start=UNIXTIME]Returns CSV with columns:
unixtime,price,amountExample
Latest Kraken EUR trades: https://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=krakenEUR
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2Thats a good starting point, but I don't know how "authoritative" it is since it seems to be a 3rd party. I wonder how they collect the information in the first place. Do you know if they simply screen-scrape the info? Commented Sep 23, 2012 at 19:56
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2@makerofthings7, BitcoinCharts is the main markets watch website, operator Nils Schneider aka tcatm - Bitcoin developer, owner of BitcoinWatch, creator and owner of BitcoinCharts, GPU mining software and JS web interface - en.bitcoin.it/wiki/People . It as authoritative as it gets in Bitcoin community. Every exchange listed on this site upload its historical data on the website - bitcoincharts.com/about/exchanges– SerithCommented Sep 23, 2012 at 21:38
At the bottom of that linked google docs spreadsheet are instructions to download data from Mt Gox and many other Exchanges. Namely:
Go to this link: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv
Click load raw data
This raw data only maintains daily prices. This is probably the closing price for the day, but I can't be sure of that.
I'm not sure how bitcoin charts actually collects this information from the other providers. I hope other
answered Sep 22, 2012 at 18:44
Many API endpoints included OHLC data from various exchanges can be found on
If you're looking for a one-stop shop for lots of different exchanges/markets, Coinigy provides historical crypto data. It's not free but probably one of the better sources.
