GET`/api/v1/prices/ohlc/{asset}`

Get Price Ohlc

Get historical OHLC candles for a price asset. Supported assets: btc, eth, eth_btc, btc_d, total2, sp500, gold, oil, commodities, japan, europe, us_dollar, china, emerging. S&P 500 includes Shiller deep history (1871-present, ~155 years). Crypto assets use CoinGecko (primary) + CoinLore (fallback). Uses stale-while-revalidate caching: serves stale data instantly while refreshing in background. Users never wait for upstream fetches.

Authentication

This endpoint requires the X-API-Key header or a valid Clerk JWT. Accepted schemes: HTTPBearer.

See Authentication for details.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`asset`	`string`	✓	-

Responses

Status	Description	Schema
`200`	Successful Response	`PriceOHLCOut`
`422`	Validation Error	`HTTPValidationError`

See the standard error codes documented in the Error codes.

Code samples

Three ready-to-paste implementations. Replace $TRINITY_API_KEY with your API key (generated from the dashboard under Profile → API keys).

cURL

curl -X GET \
  'https://api.trinityinsights.io/api/v1/prices/ohlc/value' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: $TRINITY_API_KEY'

Python

import os
import requests

BASE = "https://api.trinityinsights.io"
headers = {
    "X-API-Key": os.environ["TRINITY_API_KEY"],
}

response = requests.get(f"{BASE}/api/v1/prices/ohlc/value", headers=headers, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

JavaScript

const apiKey = process.env.TRINITY_API_KEY;

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.trinityinsights.io/api/v1/prices/ohlc/value",
  {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "X-API-Key": apiKey,
    },
  },
);

if (!response.ok) {
  throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
}
const data = await response.json();

Institutional disclaimer

Trinity Insights is an educational and analytical tool. Values returned by this endpoint do not constitute investment advice. Trinity Insights is not a Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) registered under MiCA Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. See the full disclaimer.