CoinLore Cryptocurrency API

Name: CoinLore Cryptocurrency API API
Brand: CoinLore
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecFinanceBankingnone7 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Pull free crypto prices, market caps, exchange data, and social metrics across thousands of coins from CoinLore — no API key required.

Quickstart

Get started with CoinLore Cryptocurrency API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"list top cryptocurrency tickers"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with CoinLore Cryptocurrency API API.

Retrieve aggregated global crypto market metrics in a single call

List paginated cryptocurrency tickers with prices and market caps

Look up a single coin ticker by its CoinLore numeric id

Browse the markets where a specific coin trades and on which exchanges

GET STARTED

Start building with CoinLore Cryptocurrency API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Use for: Get global crypto market cap and 24-hour volume, List the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, Look up a single coin's price by its coinlore id, Find which exchanges trade a specific coin

Not supported: Does not handle trading, wallets, or historical OHLCV data — use for current crypto prices, exchange listings, and social stats only.

CoinLore is a free cryptocurrency data API that returns prices, market caps, exchanges, and aggregated metrics across thousands of coins without requiring an API key. Seven REST endpoints cover global market metrics, paginated tickers, single-coin tickers, per-coin market venues, exchanges, exchange detail, and a coin's social statistics. It is well suited to lightweight projects that need open access without authentication overhead.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use CoinLore Cryptocurrency API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Free Crypto Price Display

Power blogs, hobby projects, and education sites with free crypto pricing data and no auth setup. CoinLore's tickers and global endpoints return prices, market caps, and aggregated metrics in seconds. Integration takes minutes.

Call GET /api/tickers and return the top ten coins by rank with their current USD prices

Coin Detail Page

Build a coin detail page combining the single ticker, per-coin markets, and social stats endpoints. Visitors see the live price, where the coin trades, and community engagement metrics. Useful for explorers and educational sites.

For a given coin id, call GET /api/ticker, GET /api/coin/markets, and GET /api/coin/social_stats, then assemble a single detail object

Exchange Directory

Build a directory of cryptocurrency exchanges with per-exchange volume and metadata. The /api/exchanges and /api/exchange endpoints return ranked exchanges and detailed records. Suitable for review sites and crypto news platforms.

Call GET /api/exchanges to retrieve the ranked exchange list and return the top ten by volume

AI Crypto Helper via Jentic

Build a free-tier crypto helper agent that answers basic price and market questions using CoinLore through Jentic. The agent expresses an intent in natural language; Jentic resolves the right endpoint and executes the call. With no API key required, this is a particularly low-friction integration through Jentic.

Through Jentic, fetch global market metrics and the top three coins by rank, then summarise the market in one sentence

Key Endpoints

7 endpoints — coinlore is a free cryptocurrency data api that returns prices, market caps, exchanges, and aggregated metrics across thousands of coins without requiring an api key.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/api/global

Get aggregated global crypto market data

GET

/api/tickers

List paginated coin tickers

GET

/api/ticker

Look up a single coin ticker by id

GET

/api/coin/markets

List markets where a coin trades

GET

/api/exchanges

List supported cryptocurrency exchanges

GET

/api/coin/social_stats

Retrieve social stats for a coin

GET

/api/global

Get aggregated global crypto market data

GET

/api/tickers

List paginated coin tickers

GET

/api/ticker

Look up a single coin ticker by id

GET

/api/coin/markets

List markets where a coin trades

GET

/api/exchanges

List supported cryptocurrency exchanges

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

CoinLore requires no API key, so there is no secret to vault. Jentic still routes the call and validates parameters — agents call the operation by intent without managing any credential.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent (e.g. list top crypto tickers) and Jentic returns the matching CoinLore operation with its parameter schema, so the agent calls the correct endpoint without browsing docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 15-30 minutes for parameter handling. Through Jentic: under 10 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

CoinGecko API

Broader free crypto data with deeper coin, exchange, and DeFi coverage

Choose CoinGecko when you need OHLC candles, derivatives, NFTs, or trending coins — features CoinLore does not expose

Alternative

CoinCap API

Free crypto pricing with per-asset history endpoints

Choose CoinCap when you also need historical price series, which CoinLore does not provide

Alternative

CoinMarketCap API

Authoritative rankings and market cap data with a free tier

Choose CoinMarketCap when you need its ranking methodology or higher request quotas under a paid tier

FAQs

Specific to using CoinLore Cryptocurrency API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the CoinLore API use?

CoinLore is open and does not require an API key — endpoints are publicly accessible over HTTPS. Through Jentic, the operations are still loaded with their parameter schema and executed without any credential handling step.

Can I look up where a specific coin trades using CoinLore?

Yes. GET /api/coin/markets accepts a CoinLore coin id and returns the markets where the coin trades along with the exchange names and prices. Get the coin id from /api/tickers first.

What are the rate limits for the CoinLore API?

CoinLore enforces fair-use limits in the low single-digit requests per second from a single IP, with no published per-key cap because no key is required. Heavy users are advised to cache responses; the OpenAPI spec does not declare exact thresholds.

How do I get social stats for a coin through Jentic?

Install the SDK with pip install jentic, search Jentic for get crypto coin social stats, load the schema for GET /api/coin/social_stats, and execute with the CoinLore coin id.

How do I find a coin's CoinLore numeric id?

Call GET /api/tickers (which returns a paginated list with each coin's id, symbol, and rank). Then pass that id to /api/ticker, /api/coin/markets, or /api/coin/social_stats for detail lookups.

Does CoinLore expose exchange-level data?

Yes. GET /api/exchanges returns the ranked list of supported exchanges and GET /api/exchange returns detailed metadata for a single exchange including its 24-hour volume.