OKX Market

Overview

The OKX V5 REST API provides comprehensive cryptocurrency market data covering spot, perpetual swaps, delivery futures, options, and more. All market-data endpoints are public and can be called directly without authentication. The data comes from OKX, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange.

Quick Start

• Install a Python runtime (Python 3.9+ recommended) and the required requests dependency.

pip install requests pandas

• No account registration or token configuration is required. Market-data endpoints are fully open.
• Review the endpoint documentation below and locate the interface you need.
• Use Python code to retrieve data according to the documentation. Example for the spot ticker endpoint:

import requests
import pandas as pd

BASE_URL = "https://www.okx.com/api/v5"

# Get the latest BTC-USDT market quote
resp = requests.get(f"{BASE_URL}/market/ticker", params={"instId": "BTC-USDT"})
data = resp.json()["data"][0]
print(f"BTC last price: {data['last']}  24h change: {float(data['last'])/float(data['open24h'])*100-100:.2f}%")

Parameter Format Reference

• Instrument format (instId):
  • Spot: BTC-USDT, ETH-USDT
  • Perpetual swap: BTC-USDT-SWAP, ETH-USDT-SWAP
  • Delivery futures: BTC-USDT-250328 (expiry date in YYMMDD)
  • Options: BTC-USD-250328-95000-C (expiry-strike-C/P)
  • Index: BTC-USD, ETH-USD
• Candlestick interval (bar): 1m, 3m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1H, 2H, 4H, 6H, 12H, 1D, 1W, 1M
• Instrument type (instType): SPOT (spot), SWAP (perpetual), FUTURES (delivery), OPTION (option)
• Timestamp: millisecond Unix timestamp (for example 1773763200000)
• Response format: JSON. code=0 indicates success, and data is returned in the data field

Link convention: every link to references/ in this document is written with the skill-name prefix (for example okx-market/references/...). The read_file tool resolves paths rooted at skills/, so omitting the prefix makes the read fail. When adding new skill docs, always use the <skill-name>/references/... form.

Python Script Examples

• Market data retrieval example
• Candlestick data retrieval example

Market Data Endpoint List