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 Raw order book 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 Exchange codes
instrument_class	Yes	Instrument class. See Exchange trading pair codes (instruments)
instrument	Yes	Instrument code. See Exchange trading pair codes (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

##### 1. Import dependencies #####
import requests
import pandas as pd

##### 2. Choose the value of the query's parameters #####
# ---- Required parameters ---- #
exchange = "krkn" 
instrument_class = "spot"
pair = "btc-usd" #called "instrument" in the documentation

# ---- Optional parameters ---- #
sort = "desc"
page_size = 100
start_time= "2025-03-03T00:00:00Z"
end_time= "2025-03-05T00:00:00Z"

# ---- API key configuration ---- #
api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY"

##### 3. Get the data #####
# ---- Function to run an API call ---- # 
# Get the data in a dataframe --------- # 

def get_kaiko_data(api_key: str, exchange: str, pair: str, instrument_class: str, start_time: str, end_time: str, sort: str, page_size: int):
    headers = {'Accept': 'application/json', 'X-Api-Key': api_key}
    
    url = f'https://us.market-api.kaiko.io/v2/data/order_book_snapshots.v1/exchanges/{exchange}/{instrument_class}/{pair}/snapshots/slippage'
    params = {
        "start_time": start_time,
        "end_time": end_time,
        "sort": sort,
        "page_size": page_size
    }

    try:
        res = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
        res.raise_for_status() 
        data = res.json()
        if 'data' not in data:
            print("No data returned.")
            return pd.DataFrame() 
        df = pd.DataFrame(data['data'])

        # Handle pagination with continuation token
        while 'next_url' in data:
            next_url = data['next_url']
            if next_url is None:
                break
            res = requests.get(next_url, headers=headers)
            res.raise_for_status()
            data = res.json()
            if 'data' in data:
                df = pd.concat([df, pd.DataFrame(data['data'])], ignore_index=True)
        return df

    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"API request error: {e}")
        return pd.DataFrame() 

# ---- Get the data ---- #
df = get_kaiko_data(api_key=api_key, exchange=exchange, pair=pair, instrument_class=instrument_class, start_time=start_time, end_time=end_time ,sort=sort, page_size=int(page_size))

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
        }
    }
}