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Where can I get a time series of (date, bitcoin price in USD)? BitcoinCharts no longer provide historic data, only the last 20,000 samples.

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EDIT: These links appear to no longer work

You can get it at Bitcoincharts:

http://bitcoincharts.com/t/trades.csv?symbol=SYMBOL[&start=UNIXTIME][&end=UNIXTIME]

It returns a CSV file with the format:unixtime,price,amount.

For example, you can use this link to get the MtGox prices since August:

http://bitcoincharts.com/t/trades.csv?symbol=mtgoxUSD&start=1312174800
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    Awsome. I used this link to get data from 2009. bitcoincharts.com/t/…
    – ripper234
    Sep 8, 2011 at 9:44
  • Well, this turned out absolutely meaningless. Here is the ugly conversation script if anyone's interested: gist.github.com/1251429
    – ripper234
    Sep 29, 2011 at 18:00
  • see my answer to get all trades as one big file
    – greg121
    Oct 27, 2014 at 8:58
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    The links in this answer have stopped working.
    – user5672
    Jul 9, 2015 at 20:31
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You can download the whole historical data (every single trade) from the various exchanges as a single .csv file here:

http://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/csv/

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Try quandl! and search for "bitcoin"

for example: http://www.quandl.com/BITCOIN-Bitcoin-Charts/MTGOXUSD-Bitcoin-Markets-mtgoxUSD

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You didn't state what format you are looking for. Investing.com has a decent tool for this. I've used it for calculating long term gains/losses.

https://www.investing.com/currencies/btc-usd-historical-data

EDIT: Your updated question asked for JSON. I would use blockchain.info

https://api.blockchain.info/charts/market-price?format=json&timespan=all

Other timespan options:

&timespan=30days
&timespan=60days
&timespan=180days
&timespan=1year
&timespan=2years

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  • Thank you for your answer. Just updated it with the format.
    – Carol.Kar
    Apr 23, 2017 at 20:21
  • Answer updated with JSON example
    – m1xolyd1an
    Apr 24, 2017 at 1:30
  • I've merged the question into this one, this answer may require small edits to make it fit in :)
    – meshcollider
    Jan 18, 2018 at 23:02
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You might want to try http://www.cryptodatasets.com/ It has free raw(every trade by trade) data and sampled data from Bitfinex and HitBtc (non from MtGox since its not operating anymore).

P.S. it's my website

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    nice site, why not compress the csv with gzip?
    – xgdgsc
    Jan 27, 2018 at 13:15
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This explains how to get a dump of past Mt Gox data and the Mt Gox API allows current data. Hope this helps!

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  • A bit outdated.
    – MCCCS
    Feb 5, 2018 at 13:12
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Bitcoincharts recently retricted the download for latest 20000 trades, it basically represents only two days of tick data.

Guys, if you have downloaded it before the restriction, would you mind sharing those past tick data? It would help me a lot. Thanks!

Update:

As promised, I'm sharing the way how I downloaded all historical trade-by-trade data from MtGox. Firstly, register at BigQuerry cloud database, at this time only download of 16k rows of data is enabled. Secondly go to bitbucket.org/nitrous/bq and download the software which automatize the data download. The whole database took approx one hour to download. Everything is free, no charges. Enjoy!

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    Just realised I post a question as an answer - sorry!
    – Steef Gregor
    Jul 16, 2013 at 8:30
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    See Meni's comment above. I have unaccepted the accepted answer, because it's, as you say, no longer correct. I personally don't have historic price data, but perhaps you can post on bitcointalk.org and ask there. (please post here if you find it!)
    – ripper234
    Jul 16, 2013 at 8:40
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    Meni has only end-of-day data which is not sufficient. However, I will do as you suggested and ask on bitcointalk. If I find any, surely I will post it here for others!
    – Steef Gregor
    Jul 16, 2013 at 9:06
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    As promised, I'm sharing the way how I downloaded all historical trade-by-trade data from MtGox. Firstly, register at BigQuerry cloud database, at this time only download of 16k rows of data is enabled. Secondly go to bitbucket.org/nitrous/bq and download the software which automatize the data download. The whole database took approx one hour to download. Everything is free, no charges. Enjoy!
    – Steef Gregor
    Jul 25, 2013 at 12:16
  • Thanks! I updated your answer with the content of your comment.
    – ripper234
    Jul 25, 2013 at 15:05
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Yes, there are websites to do that.

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    This answer has been moved due to questions being merged, please double check it doesn't need any edits :)
    – meshcollider
    Jan 18, 2018 at 22:59
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http://www.CryptoDataDownload.com is newer but has 28+ exchanges, ~550 pairs, 8+ ccy pairs, and daily/hourly/minute timeframes to download via csv format for free

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  • Please disclose your affiliation or this will be deleted as spam :)
    – meshcollider
    Jan 18, 2018 at 23:02
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You can get it from http://www.coinintraday.com . It offers many intraday data

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