Historical data format is the same as provided by real-time FTX 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.
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.
orderbookGrouped - available since 2020-07-21 Asorderbook channel provides data only about the orderbook's best 100 orders on either side, grouped orderbooks channel supplies orderbook data with grouped (collapsed) prices allowing retrieving lower-granularity, higher-depth information about the orderbook. We set grouping param to instruments' priceIncrement value multiplied by 10.
instrument - generated channel, available since 2020-05-13 Since FTX does not offer currently real-time WebSocket instrument info channel with next funding rate, open interest or mark price data, we simulate it by fetching that info from FTX REST API (https://docs.ftx.com/#get-future and https://docs.ftx.com/#get-future-stats) every 3-5 seconds for each derivative instrument. Such messages are marked with "channel":"instrument" and "generated":true fields and data field has the same format as REST API responses.
Market data collection details
Market data collection infrastructure for FTX since 2020-05-14 is located in GCP asia-northeast1 (Tokyo, Japan), before that it was located in GCP europe-west2 region (London, UK).
Real-time market data is captured via multiple WebSocket connections.
FTX servers are located in AWS ap-northeast-1 region (Tokyo, Japan).
# requires Python >=3.6
# pip install tardis-dev
from tardis_dev import datasets, get_exchange_details
import logging
# optionally enable debug logs
# logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
exchange = 'ftx'
exchange_details = get_exchange_details(exchange)
# iterate over and download all data for every symbol
for symbol in exchange_details["datasets"]["symbols"]:
# alternatively specify datatypes explicitly ['trades', 'incremental_book_L2', 'quotes'] etc
# see available options https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#data-types
data_types = symbol["dataTypes"]
symbol_id = symbol["id"]
from_date = symbol["availableSince"]
to_date = symbol["availableTo"]
# skip groupped symbols
if symbol_id in ['PERPETUALS', 'SPOT', 'FUTURES']:
continue
print(f"Downloading {exchange} {data_types} for {symbol_id} from {from_date} to {to_date}")
# each CSV dataset format is documented at https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#data-types
# see https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#download-via-client-libraries for full options docs
datasets.download(
exchange = exchange,
data_types = data_types,
from_date = from_date,
to_date = to_date,
symbols = [symbol_id],
# TODO set your API key here
api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY",
# path where CSV data will be downloaded into
download_dir = "./datasets",
)
// npm install tardis-dev
// requires node version >=12
const { downloadDatasets, getExchangeDetails } = require('tardis-dev')
;(async () => {
const exchange = 'ftx'
const exchangeDetails = await getExchangeDetails(exchange)
// iterate over and download all data for every symbol
for (const symbol of exchangeDetails.datasets.symbols) {
// alternatively specify dataTypes explicitly ['trades', 'incremental_book_L2', 'quotes'] etc
// see available options https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#data-types
const dataTypes = symbol.dataTypes
const symbolId = symbol.id
const from = symbol.availableSince
const to = symbol.availableTo
// skip groupped symbols
if (['PERPETUALS', 'SPOT', 'FUTURES'].includes(symbolId)) {
continue
}
console.log(`Downloading ${exchange} ${dataTypes} for ${symbolId} from ${from} to ${to}`)
// each CSV dataset format is documented at https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#data-types
// see https://docs.tardis.dev/downloadable-csv-files#download-via-client-libraries for full options docs
await downloadDatasets({
exchange,
dataTypes,
from,
to,
symbols: [symbolId],
// TODO: set your API key here
apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
// path where CSV data will be downloaded into
downloadDir: './datasets'
})
}
})()