Kraken Futures
Kraken Futures (Crypto Facilities) historical market data details - available instruments, data coverage and data collection specifics
Crypto Facilities (aka Kraken Futures) historical data for all it's instruments is available since 2019-03-30.
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 Crypto Facilities WebSocket v1 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 perform data normalization client-side.
# pip install tardis-client
import asyncio
from tardis_client import TardisClient, Channel
tardis_client = TardisClient(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
async def replay():
# replay method returns Async Generator
messages = tardis_client.replay(
exchange="cryptofacilities",
from_date="2019-07-01",
to_date="2019-07-02",
filters=[Channel(name="book", symbols=["PI_XBTUSD"])]
)
# messages as provided by Kraken Futures real-time stream
async for local_timestamp, message in messages:
print(message)
asyncio.run(replay())
See Python client docs.
Captured real-time channels
book During recording, data integrity of order book incremental updates messages is being validated using sequence numbers provided by Kraken Futures real-time message feed - in case of detecting missed message WebSocket connection is being restarted.
Market data collection details
Market data collection infrastructure for Kraken Futures is located in GCP europe-west2 region (London, UK). Real-time market data is captured via multiple WebSocket connections. Recording of data is being done via direct API access - without Cloudflare in between - https://www.cryptofacilities.com/resources/hc/en-us/articles/360022531713-IP-whitelisting-for-direct-access.
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