Bitstamp API
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For Agents
Fetch real-time crypto market data from Bitstamp — tickers, order books, recent trades, OHLC candles, and the list of available trading pairs and currencies. Read-only public market data, no order placement.
Use for: Get the current BTC/USD price on Bitstamp, Retrieve the order book for ETH/EUR, List all trading pairs available on Bitstamp, Fetch hourly ticker data for a crypto pair
Not supported: Does not handle order placement, account balances, or fiat withdrawals — use for Bitstamp public market data only.
The Bitstamp API exposes the public market data surface of the Bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange. It serves real-time and historical pricing for any supported currency pair, including current and hourly tickers, the live order book, recent trades, OHLC candle data, and the catalogue of tradable pairs and currencies. The endpoints are read-only market data routes useful for building dashboards, price feeds, signal generators, and trading bots that need authoritative Bitstamp prices without scraping the website.
Install Jentic One Beta
Connect the Bitstamp API to your agent
Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the Bitstamp API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.
Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.
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Step 1: Jentic One Host machine
# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh2
Step 2: Agent machine
# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register # connects your agent to your Jentic One instanceJentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.
Capabilities
What an agent can do with Bitstamp API.
Retrieve the current ticker, including last price and 24h volume, for any Bitstamp currency pair
Inspect the live order book to gauge bid-ask depth before sizing a trade
Pull recent public trades to drive microstructure analytics on a Bitstamp pair
Fetch OHLC candle data with configurable step and limit for backtesting
Enumerate the supported trading pairs and underlying currencies on Bitstamp
Use Cases
Patterns agents use Bitstamp API for, with concrete tasks.
★ Real-Time Crypto Price Feed
Power a dashboard or alerting agent with live spot prices from Bitstamp. The /api/v2/ticker/{currency_pair}/ endpoint returns the latest bid, ask, last price, volume, and 24h high/low for any supported pair, so a service can poll on a fixed cadence and surface price moves to users. This is the simplest way to integrate authoritative Bitstamp pricing into a finance app or trading agent.
Call GET /api/v2/ticker/btcusd/ every 30 seconds and emit an alert when the last price moves more than 2% from the previous reading.
Order Book Depth Analysis
Trading agents and market-making bots use the /api/v2/order_book/{currency_pair}/ endpoint to inspect resting bids and asks at each price level. The response captures liquidity depth, which agents use to estimate slippage before sizing an order or to detect imbalances that precede short-term moves. Combine with /api/v2/transactions/ for full microstructure context.
Call GET /api/v2/order_book/ethusd/, sum the first 10 levels of bids and asks, and report which side has more liquidity.
Strategy Backtesting with OHLC Candles
Pull historical OHLC data from /api/v2/ohlc/{currency_pair}/ to backtest trading strategies on Bitstamp pairs. The endpoint accepts a step and limit so a backtester can request minute, hour, or day candles across an arbitrary window. Combined with /api/v2/trading-pairs-info/ this is enough to systematically evaluate strategies across the full Bitstamp universe.
Call GET /api/v2/ohlc/btcusd/?step=3600&limit=720 and compute a 30-day moving average from the close prices.
Pair and Currency Discovery
Before subscribing to a price feed or routing an order, an automation needs to know which pairs Bitstamp actually trades and what minimums apply. /api/v2/trading-pairs-info/ returns the metadata for every pair (minimum order size, decimals, trading status) and /api/v2/currencies/ lists the assets themselves. This lets agents validate user-supplied symbols before any further calls.
Call GET /api/v2/trading-pairs-info/ and return the pair object whose name matches the user-supplied symbol, rejecting unsupported pairs.
Agent Price Lookup via Jentic
An AI assistant answering 'what is BTC trading at?' uses Jentic to find the Bitstamp ticker operation, load its schema, and execute it without the developer having to wire HTTP calls. Jentic returns the ticker JSON directly so the agent can format the price for the user. The same pattern works for any of the seven Bitstamp public market data endpoints.
Use Jentic search for 'get the current BTC/USD price on Bitstamp', load the schema, then execute GET /api/v2/ticker/btcusd/ and return the last price.
Key Endpoints
7 endpoints — the bitstamp api exposes the public market data surface of the bitstamp cryptocurrency exchange.
METHOD
PATH
DESCRIPTION
GET
/api/v2/ticker/{currency_pair}/
Latest ticker for a pair
GET
/api/v2/order_book/{currency_pair}/
Live order book
GET
/api/v2/transactions/{currency_pair}/
Recent public trades
GET
/api/v2/ohlc/{currency_pair}/
OHLC candle data
GET
/api/v2/trading-pairs-info/
Trading pair metadata
GET
/api/v2/currencies/
Supported currencies
GET
/api/v2/ticker/{currency_pair}/
Latest ticker for a pair
GET
/api/v2/order_book/{currency_pair}/
Live order book
GET
/api/v2/transactions/{currency_pair}/
Recent public trades
GET
/api/v2/ohlc/{currency_pair}/
OHLC candle data
GET
/api/v2/trading-pairs-info/
Trading pair metadata
GET
/api/v2/currencies/
Supported currencies
Why Jentic?
Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.
Credential isolation
Bitstamp's X-Auth and HMAC X-Auth-Signature headers are stored in the Jentic vault when authenticated tiers are used. Public market data endpoints work without auth. Either way, the raw API key and signing secret never leave Jentic — the agent sees a scoped token only.
Intent-based discovery
Agents search Jentic with intents like 'get the current BTC/USD price on Bitstamp' or 'fetch the ETH order book' and Jentic returns the matching ticker, order book, OHLC, transactions, or pair-info operation with its input schema.
Time to first call
Direct integration: 1-2 days to handle pair validation, rate limits, and error backoff. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search the operation, load its schema, execute against the live endpoint.
Related APIs
Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.
FAQs
Specific to using Bitstamp API through Jentic.
What authentication does the Bitstamp API use?
The OpenAPI spec declares two security schemes: X-Auth (API key) and X-Auth-Signature (HMAC-SHA256 signature). The seven public market data endpoints in this spec are typically callable without auth, but Bitstamp accepts the same headers for authenticated rate tiers. Through Jentic, the X-Auth and signature secret are stored in the encrypted vault and the agent never sees the raw values.
Can I place trades with the Bitstamp API as exposed in this spec?
No. This spec only covers public market data: tickers, order books, transactions, OHLC, trading pairs, and currencies. There are no order placement, balance, or withdrawal endpoints in the seven paths. For trading you need Bitstamp's private endpoints, which are out of scope here.
What are the rate limits for the Bitstamp API?
Bitstamp publishes a global rate limit of 8000 requests per 10-minute window across the public API. The OpenAPI spec does not encode this directly, so build retries with exponential backoff and watch for HTTP 429 responses on the ticker, order book, and OHLC endpoints if you poll aggressively.
How do I get OHLC candles with the Bitstamp API through Jentic?
Install with pip install jentic, then use Jentic search with 'get OHLC candles from Bitstamp'. Load the schema for GET /api/v2/ohlc/{currency_pair}/ and execute with currency_pair, step (in seconds), and limit. Jentic resolves the call without exposing any auth headers.
Which trading pairs are available on Bitstamp?
Call GET /api/v2/trading-pairs-info/ to get the full list with metadata for each pair (name, minimum order, decimals, trading status). Use GET /api/v2/currencies/ to enumerate the underlying assets. Cache both responses since the catalogue changes infrequently.
Is the Bitstamp API free?
The public market data endpoints in this spec are free to call within Bitstamp's rate limits. There is no per-call charge for tickers, order books, OHLC data, or pair metadata. Authenticated and trading endpoints follow Bitstamp's standard fee schedule, which is separate from the free read endpoints.
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