Ways to Source One-Minute Cryptocurrency Market Data
Summary
The document surveys ways to obtain one-minute historical cryptocurrency data when exchange APIs provide candles only at coarser intervals. It points to archived OHLCV and tick data, downloadable historical datasets, and commercial market-data services. It also describes collecting data directly: poll exchanges at one-minute intervals, retain the observations, and construct the desired candles. A market-data API is presented as another route, with cost and convenience as considerations.
The answers illustrate that availability depends on the exchange, source, and format, and that an API’s shortest supported candle interval can limit a simple historical-data request. Building a dataset through polling may help fill that gap, but the document does not discuss completeness, outages, exchange differences, timestamp conventions, or validation of reconstructed candles. Several named providers and datasets are offered as leads rather than as a systematic comparison, and one recommendation is explicitly from a service author. Researchers should check current coverage, licensing, and data quality before relying on a source for analysis or backtesting.
Key ideas
- Some exchange APIs offer historical candles only at intervals longer than one minute.
- Archived OHLCV or tick data can provide ready-made short-interval histories.
- Polling exchanges and aggregating observations is one way to construct one-minute candles.
- Commercial APIs and downloadable datasets offer alternatives with different costs and coverage.
- The document does not compare source completeness, quality, licensing, or timestamp handling.
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# Where can I get historical data for crypto currencies with one minute interval? # Where can I get historical data for crypto currencies with one minute interval? Where can I get historical data for crypto currencies with one minute time intervals? I tried to use CCXT, but the exchanges I tried have minimum 5 minute interval or some other limits. ## Answer by aleck (score 7) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/45507 There is plenty of OHLCV 1-minute data on my cryptoarchive.com.au along with tick data as well. ## Answer by Ted Taylor of Life (score 5) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/45437 ## Short answer You will have to build it yourself. ## Reference to StackExchange question regarding data sources to build it. What are the most comprehensive APIs for cryptocurrency market data? ## Example Resources ( I have no affiliation, just first result on google) - https://www.coinapi.io/ ## Answer by Shane Fontaine (score 2) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/43663 Many of the exchanges only have five minute minimums, so simply retrieving the one-minute candle would be impossible with a simple API call. However, you can set up a a program (using CCXT) that polls the exchanges every minute and collects all the relevant data that you may need. From there, you can recreate the one-minute candle that you desired initially. Another option is to use the CoinMarketCap API. There is a cost to this, but the simplicity and accuracy may be worth it, depending on your application. Additionally, you can find a 5 year history of CoinMarketCap data here, for free. ## Answer by Forelli (score 1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/68092 Here you can find a set with the BTC data. May still help:Kaggle Historical Data BTC at 1-min intervals ## Answer by Mikko Ohtamaa (score 1) https://quant.stackexchange.com/a/69388 Trading Strategy is a new service for technical trading on decentralised exchanges. We publish one minute historical OHLCV candles as Parquet files for 100+ exchanges. Disclaimer: I am the author of the service.
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