Trades: Get recent trades

API: kraken.com:kraken
Endpoint: /0/public/Trades
Response format: application/json
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 184ms

Description

Returns the most recent executed trades including price, volume, timestamp, side (buy/sell), order type, and trade ID. Use this to analyze recent market activity, verify execution prices, and build real-time trade feeds or tick charts.

From spec: Get recent trades for an asset pair.

Usage Tips

- Count parameter: Maximum 1000 trades per request - Side: 'b' = buy (taker bought), 's' = sell (taker sold) - Order type: 'l' = limit, 'm' = market - Timestamp includes microseconds as decimal (e.g., 1775659798.0047865) - 'last' field can be used as 'since' parameter for pagination

Parameters (3)

count (integer, query, optional, default: 1000)

Maximum number of trades (1-1000). Default: 1000.

Constraints: {'minimum': 1, 'maximum': 1000}

pair (string, query, required)

Asset pair to get trades for (required)

since (string, query, optional)

Return trade data since given timestamp (nanosecond)

Examples (1)

Get recent trades for Bitcoin/USD probe-gate

Demonstrates fetching the 5 most recent executed trades for BTC/USD to analyze recent market activity.

curl 'https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Trades?pair=XXBTZUSD&count=5'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Trades",
    params={
        'pair': 'XXBTZUSD',
        'count': '5',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("kraken")
result = api.fetch("0/public/Trades", pair="XXBTZUSD", count=5)

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://api.kraken.com/0/public/Trades?pair=XXBTZUSD&count=5");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 03:33:32.320807 200 184ms
2026-04-15 01:00:15.923171 200 165ms
2026-04-14 00:20:07.465450 200 2314ms
2026-04-12 13:09:11.608363 200 163ms
2026-04-10 01:40:42.969507 200 98ms
2026-04-09 03:42:15.395771 200 198ms