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What is CoinMarketCap API?

The CoinMarketCap API is a method to retrieve cryptocurrency data such as price, volume, market cap, and exchange data from CoinMarketCap using code. We will demonstrate this in this article using Python. CoinMarketCap is one of the most popular websites used for tracking various cryptocurrencies and obtaining data about them.

Does CoinMarketCap API offer a free plan?

CoinMarketCap API offers a free plan among the other 4 available ones. With the free plan you have access to the 9 market data endpoints: The STARTUP plan which is 79$ per month, gives you access to 14 market endpoints like historical data and OHLCV. On the other hand the STANDARD and PROFESSIONAL plans give you access to 22 market endpoints.

How to use Python-CoinMarketCap API?

The python-coinmarketcap library functions return a response dictionary that contains response status and the data returned by the API. You can use the `data` attribute to view the data. The following example demonstrates how to make an API call to the CoinMarketCap API using the python-coinmarketcap library. import os Output:

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