VWAP

You can also get OHLCV Candlesticks from the Trade Count, OHLCV Candlesticks & VWAP endpoint.

What is this endpoint for?

This endpoint retrieves aggregated VWAP (volume-weighted average price) history for an instrument on an exchange.

Endpoint

https://<eu|us>.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/{commodity}.{data_version}/exchanges/{exchange}/{instrument_class}/{instrument}/aggregations/vwap

Parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
commodity	Yes	The data commodity. (trades)
continuation_token	No	See Pagination
data_version	Yes	The data version. (v1, v2 ... or latest)
end_time	No	Ending time in ISO 8601 (exclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
exchange	Yes	Exchange code. See Exchanges
instrument_class	Yes	Instrument class. See Instruments
instrument	Yes	Instrument code. See Instruments
interval	No	The interval parameter is suffixed with s, m, h or d to specify seconds, minutes, hours or days, respectively. Any arbitrary value between one second and one day can be used, as long as it sums up to a maximum of 1 day. The suffixes are s (second), m (minute), h (hour) and d (day). Default 1d.
page_size	No	(min: 1, default: 100, max: 100000). See Pagination Automatically included in continuation tokens.
start_time	No	Starting time in ISO 8601 (inclusive). Automatically included in continuation tokens.
sort	No	Return the data in ascending (asc) or descending (desc) order. Default: desc Automatically included in continuation tokens.

Fields

Field	Description
timestamp	Timestamp at which the interval begins.
price	VWAP. null when no trades reported.

Request examples

cURL

curl --compressed -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'X-Api-Key: <client-api-key>' \
  'https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/trades.v1/exchanges/cbse/spot/btc-usd/aggregations/vwap'

Python

import http.client
import json

# Enter your Kaiko API Key
api_key = "KAIK0_API_KEY"
api_host = "us.market-api.kaiko.io"
api_base_endpoint = "/v2/data/trades.v1/exchanges/{exchange}/{instrument_class}/{instrument}/aggregations/vwap"

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

# Start of optional parameter configuration
optional_params = {
    "interval": "1d",
    "sort": "desc",
}
# 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": 100,
        "exchange": "cbse",
        "instrument_class": "spot",
        "instrument": "btc-usd",
        "interval": "1d",
        "sort": "desc",
        "aggregation": "vwap",
        "data_version": "v1",
        "commodity": "trades",
        "request_time": "2020-11-12T16:52:36.988Z"
    },
    "time": "2020-11-12T16:52:37.114Z",
    "timestamp": 1605199957114,
    "data": [
        {
            "timestamp": 1605139200000,
            "price": "15879.385939106618"
        },
        {
            "timestamp": 1605052800000,
            "price": "15664.643871798791"
        },
    /* ... */
  ],
  "result": "success",
  "continuation_token": "55qoNvASfrVdCIjrF8Ygw6TVJ4yamzUyeL9QXAmvWZZur3iaKoPcVBW1V4unNJi2zMjojbsYr9Pgt9XFCUpnAiuBiECm8X4cedvYc9t2WxHXnHKjgAp2wRAeV8ZPUSj8WNgpWTCBVymGaQZPj3oMDZwVeCPyuTLFdVPfTXVjZA94BtHeBmghoPv92JtWxN3yRvCkrw79hJBu",
  "next_url": "https://<eu|us>.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/trades.v1/exchanges/cbse/spot/btc-usd/aggregations/vwap?continuation_token=55qoNvASfrVdCIjrF8Ygw6TVJ4yamzUyeL9QXAmvWZZur3iaKoPcVBW1V4unNJi2zMjojbsYr9Pgt9XFCUpnAiuBiECm8X4cedvYc9t2WxHXnHKjgAp2wRAeV8ZPUSj8WNgpWTCBVymGaQZPj3oMDZwVeCPyuTLFdVPfTXVjZA94BtHeBmghoPv92JtWxN3yRvCkrw79hJBu",
  "access": {
    "access_range": {
      "start_timestamp": 1546300800000,
      "end_timestamp": 1577836800000
    },
    "data_range": {
      "start_timestamp": 1417391000000,
      "end_timestamp": 1577836800000
    }
  }
}