CoinLore Cryptocurrency API
Official vendor OpenAPI document · agent-readyFinanceBankingnone7 EndpointsREST
For Agents
Pull free crypto prices, market caps, exchange data, and social metrics across thousands of coins from CoinLore - no API key required.
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.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the CoinLore Cryptocurrency API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the CoinLore Cryptocurrency API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fcoinlore.com%2Fcoinlore" | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fcoinlore.com%2Fcoinlore" | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with CoinLore Cryptocurrency 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
List supported exchanges and inspect detailed metadata for one exchange
Pull aggregated social statistics for a coin including community size
Use Cases
Patterns agents use CoinLore Cryptocurrency 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
GET
/api/coin/social_stats
Retrieve social stats for a coin
Why Jentic?
What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.
Setup
CoinLore needs no key, but wiring it by hand still means coding against the api.coinlore.net host and handling pagination across its ticker, exchange, and social-stats endpoints yourself. Through Jentic you install once, import CoinLore from the API Directory, and your agent calls it.
Permission scoping
CoinLore serves read-only crypto data, so you scope by choosing the operations the agent may call: limit it to what it needs, such as listing tickers or reading global stats, and other calls are not included unless you add them.
Credential isolation
CoinLore requires no key, so there is no secret to store, and Jentic still routes the call and validates parameters at execution time. Nothing sensitive enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list top crypto tickers' or 'get global market stats', and Jentic returns the matching CoinLore operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using CoinLore Cryptocurrency 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.
Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the CoinLore API?
Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which CoinLore operations the agent can reach, and CoinLore is read-only so scoping is a matter of picking the calls you allow. You can restrict the agent to just what it needs, such as GET /api/tickers and GET /api/global, while leaving out per-coin markets, exchange detail, or social stats until you add them. Any operation you do not include stays off limits to the agent.
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