CoinGecko API Alternative — Crypto Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

CoinGecko covers 14 000+ crypto assets with deep market data. This Actor takes a list of coin IDs (e.g. bitcoin, ethereum, solana), absorbs upstream rate limits and transient errors with backoff, and writes one row per coin — current price in USD plus your chosen secondary currency, 24h/7d/30d price change percentages, market cap, 24h trading volume, circulating supply, ATH/ATL with ISO-8601 timestamps, community sentiment, and exchange listing count. Run it once for a snapshot or on a schedule for a time-series — we keep the connection honest so your dataset stays clean.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per page, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when the target pushes back, we slow down instead of getting banned.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• Crypto portfolio tracker API — schedule a daily run with your watchlist, pipe to a spreadsheet or your own dashboard.
• Price-change alerting — diff successive runs, fire a Discord / Slack webhook when 24h change crosses a threshold.
• Algorithmic trading research — pull 50 coins by market cap rank, feed into a backtest pipeline without hitting the free-tier ceiling.
• Tax reporting snapshots — daily price records stored for capital-gains math at year-end.
• No-code automation (n8n / Make / Zapier) — connect via the Apify integration node; build a daily watchlist alert to Discord without writing a line of code.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "coinIds": [
    "bitcoin",
    "ethereum",
    "solana"
  ],
  "vsCurrency": "eur",
  "concurrency": 2,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

coin_idsymbolnameimage_urlcurrent_price_usdcurrent_price_vsvs_currencyprice_change_24h_pctprice_change_7d_pctprice_change_30d_pctmarket_cap_usdmarket_cap_ranktotal_volume_usdcirculating_supplytotal_supplymax_supply

{
  "coin_id": "bitcoin",
  "symbol": "btc",
  "name": "Bitcoin",
  "image_url": "https://assets.coingecko.com/coins/images/1/large/bitcoin.png",
  "current_price_usd": 71250.32,
  "current_price_vs": 65120.1,
  "vs_currency": "eur",
  "price_change_24h_pct": 2.41,
  "price_change_7d_pct": -1.05,
  "price_change_30d_pct": 14.22,
  "market_cap_usd": 1408000000000,
  "market_cap_rank": 1,
  "total_volume_usd": 28400000000,
  "circulating_supply": 19700000,
  "ath_usd": 73750.07,
  "ath_date": "2024-03-14T07:10:36.635Z",
  "sentiment_up_pct": 84.0,
  "exchanges_count": 1042,
  "coingecko_url": "https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-01T10:15:00Z"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.

Limitations

• Demo-tier rate limit: CoinGecko's free tier caps you at roughly 10 req/min from a single IP. Attach a CoinGecko Pro API key to lift it; otherwise keep concurrency at 2 or lower.
• No historical OHLC: this Actor returns current and recent-change data only. Historical candlestick data is a separate use case.
• Some fields null for low-coverage coins: lesser-known assets may have incomplete market data on CoinGecko's side.
• Scheduling is your job: the Actor runs once per trigger. For continuous time-series, wire it to an Apify Schedule.