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How-to guides

Welcome to the How-to Guides section of our CoinAPI documentation. This is your comprehensive resource for understanding and effectively utilizing our API to its fullest potential. These guides provide best practices for getting started, implementing, and adopting CoinAPI on your tech stack.

These guides are designed to provide you with clear, step-by-step instructions to help you navigate through various tasks and operations. From basic API calls to more complex data manipulations, we've got you covered.

Each guide is structured to provide a practical, real-world scenario that illustrates how to use specific features of our API. They are not only meant to be instructional but also to inspire you to explore the many ways you can use CoinAPI to drive your cryptocurrency projects forward. Remember, the world of cryptocurrencies is ever-evolving, and so is our API. We regularly update these guides to reflect the latest features and improvements. So, make sure to check back often for the most up-to-date information.

We hope these guides will empower you to create, innovate, and achieve success in your cryptocurrency endeavors.

You’ll learn how to:​

  • Access and interpret cryptocurrency data using CoinAPI.
  • Build a portfolio tracker with React and CoinAPI.
  • Convert between different cryptocurrencies using CoinAPI.
  • Retrieve historical OHLCV Data Using CoinAPI
  • Subscribe to real-time trades stream using WebSocket.
  • Visualize real-time data using JavaScript and CoinAPI.
  • Extract market data in the csv format and import to spreadsheet applications like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
  • Fetching market data with KNIME

What’s next?​

This quick start guide has given you a flavor of what CoinAPI can offer and an idea of how to build a solution. To find out more by exploring specific guides from the menu view.

The next steps​

Need help?

If you need any help with your implementation or if you have encountered any problems, do get in touch. You can also quickly find answers from our FAQs, and blog.