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CCXT
One API for market data and trading on more than a hundred crypto exchanges.
GitHub stars44.9k
Forks9.0k
Last commit2026-11-10
Latest releasev4.5.92 (2026-11-04)
LicenseMIT
LanguagePython
StatusActive
GitHub statistics as of 2026-11-10. Status: active = commits in the last 90 days, slowing = in the last year, inactive = older, archived = read-only.
Overview
CCXT gives the same methods for fetching candles, order books and balances and for placing orders across a very large number of exchanges, in Python, JavaScript, PHP and other languages. Many crypto bots, including Freqtrade, are built on it.
Best for: Downloading crypto data and connecting your own code to exchanges.
Strengths
- Unmatched exchange coverage
- Same interface in several languages
- Very actively maintained
Limitations
- Not a strategy or backtesting framework
- Exchange quirks still leak through the unified API
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