GET /coins/{id}

coingecko.com:coingecko-api

Summary: Get current data for a coin
Operation ID: getCoinData
Auth: none

Get comprehensive data for a specific cryptocurrency including current price, market data, community stats, developer activity, and exchange tickers. This is the detailed profile endpoint — use it when you need full information about one coin. The response can be customized by enabling/disabling data sections (market_data, community_data, developer_data, tickers, etc.) to reduce payload size.

Original spec description

Get current data (price, market cap, volume, etc.) for a specific coin.

Usage Tips

- Set `market_data=false` if you only need metadata (name, description, links) without prices - Set `tickers=true` to see which exchanges list this coin and current trading activity - `community_data` includes Reddit/Twitter stats; `developer_data` shows GitHub activity - `localization=false` returns English-only to reduce response size - Response is large (~100KB+) — only request the sections you need

Parameters (7)

community_data (boolean, query, optional, default: True)

Include community data

developer_data (boolean, query, optional, default: True)

Include developer data

id (string, path, required)

Coin ID (e.g., bitcoin, ethereum)

localization (boolean, query, optional, default: True)

Include localized data

market_data (boolean, query, optional, default: True)

Include market data

sparkline (boolean, query, optional, default: False)

Include sparkline data

tickers (boolean, query, optional, default: True)

Include ticker data

Examples (2)

TitleTypeURLAction
Get Coin Data by ID openapi-spec https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/bitcoin
Get coin details probe-gate https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/bitcoin?localization=True&tickers=True&market_data=True&community_data=True&developer_data=True&sparkline=False

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-03-23 10:27:20.397635 200 86ms
2026-03-23 09:02:20.704268 200 291ms

Response Changes

WhenOldNew
2026-03-23 10:27:20.397635 f5bca09359fd 29eabbc1f2e8