How to retreive historical global/aggregated market cap data?

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How to retreive historical global/aggregated market cap data?

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Hi there,

I would like to retreive the historical global/aggregated marketcap over all coins as shown in the first chart here: https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

Unfortunately, I haven't found the respective function in the package reference.

Any help would be highly appreciated!

Thank you very much in advance for a short reply.

Best,
André

Answer 1 · 2022-10-11T16:02:51.000Z

Hi @adragosch I have now checked and think I will make the global metrics available. I would appreciate support!

Answer 2 · 2022-10-12T06:12:40.000Z

Hi Sebastian, Thanks for your reply. I am not a pro in HTML unfortunately and not so familiar w/ rvest either. If I was, I would definitely help you.

Answer 3 · 2022-10-12T22:24:17.000Z

Hi @adragosch I have just uploaded a new version of the package to github (1.4.5) with a new function crypto_global_quotes() which is designed to do what you want without having to download all individual coins. Also, check the readme file. Once you confirm I will submit the package to cran.

Answer 4 · 2022-10-13T19:21:53.000Z

Hi Sebastian, Thank you so much! I have checked the newest version and apparently I can only retreive the latest values from CMC but not a time series.

Even if I type in the following code I only get the latest values in a 1 x 23 tibble:

crypto_global_quotes(start_date="20220101", end_date="20221010", interval="daily")

identical output for the following call:
crypto_global_quotes(which="latest")

Am I doing sth wrong?

Thanks ain advance for a short reply.

Answer 5 · 2022-10-19T19:58:25.000Z

Hi @adragosch : You are using the command wrong. If you want historical data you have to specify which=historical: crypto_global_quotes(which = "historical", start_date="20220101", end_date="20221010", interval="daily")