Need authoritative source for historic Bitcoin conversion prices from all exchanges

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What are the authoritative sources for historic Bitcoin prices?

Ideally this will be an API for all major exchanges.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 17 '17 at 16:40

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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,amount

Example

Latest Kraken EUR trades: https://api.bitcoincharts.com/v1/trades.csv?symbol=krakenEUR

edited Sep 17 '17 at 16:40

Jonathan Cross

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answered Sep 23 '12 at 19:22

Serith

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Thats 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? – makerofthings7 Sep 23 '12 at 19:56
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@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 - https://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 - http://bitcoincharts.com/about/exchanges/ – Serith Sep 23 '12 at 21:38

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 22 '12 at 18:44

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

Petr Javorik · Answer 3 · 2017-08-08T08:07:56.910

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Many API endpoints included OHLC data from various exchanges can be found on

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answered Jul 10 '17 at 16:08

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Joe Phillips · Answer 4 · 2018-05-07T15:34:36.123

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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.

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Need authoritative source for historic Bitcoin conversion prices from all exchanges

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