Use Python to Query Coinbase API to Find Available Cryptocurrencies

March 23, 2022, 3:59 p.m.by CryptoDataDownload

Are you trying to find out what cryptocurrencies are available on Coinbase with their API? We provide the Python code below to do this in less than 25 lines of actual code! It is extremely simple to follow along with our example. By the way, All of our code is extensively documented line by line so you know exactly what is going on! If you do end up with questions, please contact us and we are happy to respond. The Python code is ready to run right away on Python versions 3.4+

Some of the functions and steps involved include:
(1) Using the requests library to access the API endpoint
(2) Loading the API's response to a Pandas Dataframe
(3) Saving the dataframe to a CSV file

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# No Express Warranty
# Consult Coinbase API Terms of Service
import pandas as pd
import json
import requests

if __name__ == "__main__":
    """Simple script to query the Coinbase API and determine what cryptocurrency pairs are available.

Will Save results to a CSV file.
    """
    # Set up our variables.
    # https://docs.cloud.coinbase.com/exchange/reference/exchangerestapi_getproducts -->  DOCUMENTATION
    endpoint = 'https://api.exchange.coinbase.com/products'  # this is the coinbase API endpoint for the data
    response = requests.get(endpoint)
    if response.status_code == 200:  # checks if API says our request was OK
        data = json.loads(response.text)  # loads API data response
        # next we create and store the JSON result into a Pandas Dataframe
        data_pd = pd.DataFrame(data)
        data_pd.rename(columns={'id': 'Symbol'}, inplace=True)  # rename one column to be unix
        data_pd.sort_values('Symbol', inplace=True)   # lets sort our results alphabetically
        # Give it a filename and output our results to a CSV!
        OUTPUT_FILENAME = "Coinbase_Available_Tradeable_Products.csv"
        data_pd.to_csv(OUTPUT_FILENAME, index=False)
    else:
        print(f"Oops. Bad Response from server. \n {response.status_code}")  # display our error message

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