Way to get the current price / volume for each coin?

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I want to be able to get the current price & volume for each coin, once per minute. I’m using the binance.prices(function(ticker) { to get back the current prices. I can then feed that into something like binance.websockets.candlesticks(['IOTABTC'], "1d", function(candlesticks) {, and I’ll get back all of the information I need.

But is there a way for me to disconnect from that websocket after that? In my code I’ve already stored the price to a database, and a minute later I’ll call the same endpoint to repeat the process. But I don’t want to kick off a new websocket every minute - I just want to close one after I get the info. from it.

It would be better if there was a non-websocket API to get the price/volume, but I don’t see it.

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napindccommented, Dec 6, 2017

“But a better way of doing what you want (once per minute) would be using the non-websocket chart call”

I would have to do this one per minute for all ~175 trading pairs though. I’m pretty sure my server would be slowed down by Binance or banned from using their API if I did that.

Perhaps the Binance team could update https://api.binance.com/api/v1/ticker/allPrices to include the 24h volume, in addition to the last price, so it would return:

{ "symbol": "ETHBTC", "price": "0.03796000", "24hVolume" : "123123" },

OR: https://api.binance.com/api/v1/ticker/24hr seems to show both price and volume as well. But for whatever reason - it does not show the coin. If the team could add the coin name to that API, it would solve this.

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jaggedsoftcommented, Dec 6, 2017

Thank you for your suggestion! I agree we would like 24 hour price statistics for all symbols, so we can easily get daily volume, etc. There is currently no easy way of doing this.

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