Price slippage (snapshot)

"Snapshots" show a point-in-time view generated every 30 seconds, whereas "aggregations" show an aggregation of all 30-second snapshots from the period requested.

What is this endpoint for?

This endpoint uses our Bids and asks (snapshot) as source data and enhances its raw data with the Price Slippage metric.

Price Slippage calculates the potential slippage for a market buy order if it were placed at the time the Order Book Snapshot was taken.

Endpoint

https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/order_book_snapshots.v1/exchanges/{exchange}/{instrument_class}/{instrument}/snapshots/slippage

Path Parameters

Parameter	Required?	Description
region	Yes	Choose between eu and us.
exchange	Yes	Exchange code. See Exchanges
instrument_class	Yes	Instrument class. See Instruments
instrument	Yes	Instrument code. See Instruments

Query Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
continuation_token	No	See Pagination
page_size	No	Number of snapshots to return data for. Default: 10 Max: 100 See Pagination Automatically included in continuation tokens.
sort	No	Return the data in ascending (asc) or descending (desc) order. Default: desc Automatically included in continuation tokens.
start_time	No	Starting time in ISO 8601 (inclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
end_time	No	Ending time in ISO 8601 (exclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
slippage	No	Order size (in quote asset) for which to calculate the percentage of slippage. Default: 0. When null is returned, not enough volume is present on the order book to execute the order.
slippage_ref	No	Price point for which to calculate slippage from. Either from the mid price (mid_price) or from the best bid/ask (best). Default: mid_price.

Fields

Field	Description
poll_timestamp	The timestamp at which the raw data snapshot was taken.
poll_date	The date at which the raw data snapshot was taken.
timestamp	The timestamp provided by the exchange. null when not provided.
ask_slippage	The percentage price slippage for a market buy order placed at the time that the order book snapshot was taken.
bid_slippage	The percentage price slippage for a market sell order placed at the time that the order book snapshot was taken.

Request examples

cURL

curl --compressed -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'X-Api-Key: <client-api-key>' \
  https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/order_book_snapshots.v1/exchanges/krkn/spot/btc-usd/snapshots/slippage?end_time=2019-12-09T00:00:00Z&slippage_ref=best&start_time=2019-12-01T00:00:00Z&slippage=1000000&page_size=10'

Python

import http.client
import json

# Enter your Kaiko API Key
api_key = "KAIKO_API_KEY"
api_host = "us.market-api.kaiko.io"
api_base_endpoint = "/v2/data/order_book_snapshots.v1/exchanges/{exchange}/{instrument_class}/{instrument}/snapshots/slippage"

# Start of mandatory parameter configuration
exchange = "krkn"
instrument_class = "spot"
instrument = "btc-usd"
# End of mandatory parameter configuration

# Start of optional parameter configuration
optional_params = {
    "start_time": "2024-09-26T00:00:00Z",
    "end_time": "2024-09-26T10:00:00Z",
    "slippage_ref": "best",
    "slippage": "1000000",

}
# End of optional parameter configuration

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection(api_host)
headers = {
    "X-Api-Key": api_key,
    "Accept": "application/json"
}

api_endpoint = api_base_endpoint.format(exchange=exchange, instrument_class=instrument_class, instrument=instrument)

url_params = []
for param, value in optional_params.items():
    url_params.append(f"{param}={value}")
url_params = '&'.join(url_params)

# Initial request
endpoint_with_params = f"{api_endpoint}?{url_params}"

# Pagination for next pages
all_trades = []
next_url = endpoint_with_params
while next_url:
    conn.request("GET", next_url, headers=headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
    all_trades.extend(data.get("data", []))
    print(f"Fetched {len(data.get('data', []))} datapoints. Total: {len(all_trades)}")
    next_url = data.get("next_url", "").replace("https://us.market-api.kaiko.io", "")
    if not next_url:
        break
conn.close()
print(f" datapoints fetched: {(all_trades)}")

Response example

{
    "query": {
        "page_size": 10,
        "exchange": "krkn",
        "instrument_class": "spot",
        "instrument": "btc-usd",
        "slippage": 100000,
        "limit_orders": 0,
        "slippage_ref": "best",
        "sort": "desc",
        "metric": "slippage",
        "data_version": "v1",
        "commodity": "order_book_snapshots",
        "request_time": "2020-05-26T14:42:17.053Z"
    },
    "time": "2020-05-26T14:42:17.123Z",
    "timestamp": 1590504137123,
    "data": [
        {
            "poll_timestamp": 1590504124917,
            "poll_date": "2020-05-26T14:42:04.917Z",
            "timestamp": null,
            "ask_slippage": "0.0001057219873253085790064266041007855",
            "bid_slippage": "0.0001581287020485902479395059349031256"
        },
        {
            "poll_timestamp": 1590504075786,
            "poll_date": "2020-05-26T14:41:15.786Z",
            "timestamp": null,
            "ask_slippage": "0.00001534073225141691226479256404443437",
            "bid_slippage": "0.0002555856086571344339622641509433962"
        },
      /* ... */
    ],
    "result": "success",
    "continuation_token": "Z8Fj1yUWjj3uvv1U2d8fASeGLm4jZ4iHCopdsZLKUyDJE8KrBaDXwQQWXHJQxm",
    "next_url": "https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/order_book_snapshots.v1/exchanges/cbse/spot/btc-usd/snapshots/slippage?continuation_token=Z8Fj1yUWjj3uvv1U2d8fASeGLm4jZ4iHCopdsZLKUyDJE8KrBaDXwQQWXHJQxm",
    "access": {
        "access_range": {
            "start_timestamp": null,
            "end_timestamp": null
        },
        "data_range": {
            "start_timestamp": null,
            "end_timestamp": null
        }
    }
}