Coingecko API Skill for Claude

import httpx

# No API key needed for free tier
resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price",
    params={"ids": "solana,bitcoin,ethereum", "vs_currencies": "usd",
            "include_24hr_change": "true"},
)
data = resp.json()
for coin, info in data.items():
    print(f"{coin}: ${info['usd']:.2f} ({info['usd_24h_change']:+.1f}%)")

import httpx

resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/markets",
    params={"vs_currency": "usd", "order": "market_cap_desc",
            "per_page": 10, "page": 1, "sparkline": "false"},
)
for coin in resp.json():
    print(f"{coin['symbol'].upper():>6}  ${coin['current_price']:>10,.2f}  "
          f"MCap: ${coin['market_cap']/1e9:.1f}B  "
          f"24h: {coin['price_change_percentage_24h']:+.1f}%")

import httpx
import pandas as pd

resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/solana/market_chart",
    params={"vs_currency": "usd", "days": "90", "interval": "daily"},
)
data = resp.json()
df = pd.DataFrame(data["prices"], columns=["timestamp", "price"])
df["date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["timestamp"], unit="ms")
df = df.set_index("date").drop(columns=["timestamp"])
print(df.describe())

import httpx

resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/solana/ohlc",
    params={"vs_currency": "usd", "days": "30"},
)
# Returns [[timestamp, open, high, low, close], ...]
candles = resp.json()
for c in candles[-5:]:
    print(f"  O={c[1]:.2f}  H={c[2]:.2f}  L={c[3]:.2f}  C={c[4]:.2f}")

import httpx

resp = httpx.get("https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/global")
g = resp.json()["data"]
print(f"Total Market Cap:  ${g['total_market_cap']['usd']/1e12:.2f}T")
print(f"24h Volume:        ${g['total_volume']['usd']/1e9:.0f}B")
print(f"BTC Dominance:     {g['market_cap_percentage']['btc']:.1f}%")
print(f"Active Coins:      {g['active_cryptocurrencies']:,}")

import httpx

resp = httpx.get("https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/search/trending")
for item in resp.json()["coins"]:
    coin = item["item"]
    print(f"#{coin['market_cap_rank'] or '?':>4}  {coin['name']} ({coin['symbol']})")

export COINGECKO_API_KEY="CG-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"

import os, httpx

API_KEY = os.getenv("COINGECKO_API_KEY", "")
if API_KEY:
    BASE_URL = "https://pro-api.coingecko.com/api/v3"
    HEADERS = {"x-cg-pro-api-key": API_KEY}
else:
    BASE_URL = "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3"
    HEADERS = {}

import time, httpx

def cg_get(url: str, params: dict, max_retries: int = 3) -> dict:
    """GET with retry on rate limit."""
    for attempt in range(max_retries):
        resp = httpx.get(url, params=params, headers=HEADERS, timeout=15.0)
        if resp.status_code == 429:
            wait = 2 ** attempt * 10
            print(f"Rate limited, waiting {wait}s...")
            time.sleep(wait)
            continue
        resp.raise_for_status()
        return resp.json()
    raise RuntimeError("Max retries exceeded")

import httpx

# Look up by Solana contract address
contract = "So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112"
resp = httpx.get(
    "https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/coins/solana/contract/"
    + contract
)
coin = resp.json()
print(f"ID: {coin['id']}, Name: {coin['name']}")