How To Download Kucoin OHLCV API Data with Python

April 21, 2023, 8:45 p.m.by CryptoDataDownload

This is a brief tutorial with working example code to how to download market data from the Kucoin exchange via their public REST API using Python. The script will connect to the Kucoin API, download historical Open, High, Low, Close and Volume data for BTCUSD and save the results to a CSV. Every line is commented, feel free to modify to your purpose!

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import pandas as pd
import requests
import json

def main(symbol='BTC-USDT'):
    url = f'https://api.kucoin.com/api/v1/market/candles?type=1day&symbol={symbol}'   # the API endpoint
    response = requests.get(url)  # call the API
    if response.status_code == 200:  # if result is GOOD
        data = json.loads(response.text)  # load the json response from API
        data_pd = pd.DataFrame(data['data'], columns=['unix', 'open', 'close', 'high', 'low', 'volume', 'turnover'])  # create dataframe out of json response
        data_pd['date'] = pd.to_datetime(data_pd['unix'], unit='s')  # add a human readable date
        
        pair = symbol.replace("-", "_")  # remove the - in the symbol name for the csv file
        filename = f'Kucoin_{pair}_day.csv'   # set a filename variable
        data_pd.to_csv(filename, index=False)   # write to CSV
        print(f'Wrote filename: {filename}')    # print results

if __name__ == "__main__":
    """
    This is the main portion of our script, this will call the function called main for the symbol passed to it 
    and download all the OHLCV historical data for that symbol and save the results to a CSV
    
    """
    sym = 'BTC-USDT'
    main(symbol=sym)

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