Welcome to Messari’s Documentation!
Messari provides a free API for crypto prices, market data metrics, on-chain metrics, and qualitative information (asset profiles).
This documentation will provide the basic steps to start using messari’s python library.
Installing messari
The first step is installing messari. messari is a python project, so it can be installed like any other python library. Every Operating System should have Python pre-installed, so you should just have to run:
$> pip install git+https://github.com/messari/messari-python-api.git
Authentication
Once the python library is installed, the next step is to create an API key. To do this sign up for an account at https://messari.io/ and navigate to https://messari.io/account/api to generate a key.
Note
Without an API key, requests are rate limited to 20 requests per minute and 1000 requests per day. Users that create an account will have slightly higher limits of 30 requests per minute and 2000 requests per day. PRO users have the highest limit at 60 requests per minute up to a maximum of 4000 requests per day. Contact us at api@messsari.io if you need a higher limit.
Once you generate an API key, import messari then set your API key by running:
# Import Messari API wrapper
from messari.messari import Messari
# Set up Messari instance
MESSARI_API_KEY = 'add_your_api_key'
messari = Messari(api_key=MESSARI_API_KEY)
# Run a quick demo
markets_df = messari.get_all_markets()
markets_df.head()
Note
We recommend using the library with JupyterLab. Detailed installation instructions can be found here.
Using conda, you can install JupyterLab by running:
conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab
With pip, you can install it with:
pip install jupyterlab
Usage
Check out our examples here for detailed usage.
Here is detailed description of all the available functions in the library.