API
Miscellaneous
BitMEX
BitMEX historical market data details - available data, coverage and data collection specifics
BitMEX historical data for all it's instruments is available since 2019-03-30.
See BitMEX historical data coverage: available symbols, channels, date ranges and incidents
Downloadable CSV files
Historical CSV datasets for the first day of each month are available to download without API key.
See downloadable CSV files documentation.
data type
symbol
date
API Access and data format
Historical data format is the same as provided by real-time BitMEX WebSocket API with addition of local timestamps. If you'd like to work with normalized data format instead (same format for each exchange) see downloadable CSV files or official client libs that can perform data normalization client-side.
Python
Node.js
cURL & HTTP API
cURL & tardis-machine
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# pip install tardis-client
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import asyncio
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from tardis_client import TardisClient, Channel
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tardis_client = TardisClient(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
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async def replay():
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# replay method returns Async Generator
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messages = tardis_client.replay(
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exchange="bitmex",
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from_date="2019-07-01",
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to_date="2019-07-02",
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filters=[Channel(name="orderBookL2", symbols=["XBTUSD"])]
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)
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# messages as provided by BitMEX real-time stream
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async for local_timestamp, message in messages:
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print(message)
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asyncio.run(replay())
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// npm install tardis-dev
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const { replay } = require('tardis-dev');
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async function run() {
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try {
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const messages = replay({
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exchange: 'bitmex',
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from: '2019-07-01',
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to: '2019-07-02',
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filters: [{ channel: 'orderBookL2', symbols: ['XBTUSD'] }],
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apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY'
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});
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// messages as provided by BitMEX real-time stream
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for await (const { localTimestamp, message } of messages) {
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console.log(localTimestamp, message);
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}
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} catch (e) {
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console.error(e);
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}
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}
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run();
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curl -g 'https://api.tardis.dev/v1/data-feeds/bitmex?from=2019-07-01&filters=[{"channel":"orderBookL2","symbols":["ETHUSD"]}]&offset=2'
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Example API response for BitMEX historical market data request
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curl -g 'localhost:8000/replay?options={"exchange":"bitmex","filters":[{"channel":"orderBookL2","symbols":["XBTUSD"]}],"from":"2019-07-01","to":"2019-07-02"}'
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Tardis-machine is a locally runnable server that exposes API allowing efficiently requesting historical market data for whole time periods in contrast to HTTP API that provides data only in minute by minute slices.
Captured real-time channels
See BitMEX WebSocket API docs providing documentation for each captured channel's format
- instrument
partialmessages returned via HTTP API may contain data for all BitMEX instruments and require filtering client-side if only selected symbols were requested
Market data collection details
Market data collection infrastructure for BitMEX is located in GCP europe-west2 region (London, UK).
Real-time market data is captured via single WebSocket connection.
BitMEX servers are located in AWS eu-west-1 region (Dublin, Ireland).
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