orderBook: Get order book

API: poloniex.com:poloniex
Endpoint: /markets/{symbol}/orderBook
Response format: application/json
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 375ms

Description

Returns the order book (bids and asks) for a specific market

Parameters (3)

limit (integer, query, optional)

Number of price levels to return

scale (string, query, optional)

Order book aggregation scale

symbol (string, path, required)

Trading symbol in format BASE_QUOTE (e.g., BTC_USDT)

Examples (1)

Get order book openapi-spec
curl 'https://api.poloniex.com/markets/BTC_USDT/orderBook?scale=0.01&limit=10'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.poloniex.com/markets/BTC_USDT/orderBook",
    params={
        'scale': '0.01',
        'limit': '10',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("poloniex")
result = api.fetch("markets/{symbol}/orderBook", scale=0.01, limit=10)

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://api.poloniex.com/markets/BTC_USDT/orderBook?scale=0.01&limit=10");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 03:42:07.317989 200 375ms
2026-04-15 01:12:13.314793 200 592ms
2026-04-14 04:03:33.977585 200 397ms
2026-04-12 12:48:44.994620 200 396ms
2026-04-10 02:07:04.120874 200 1043ms
2026-04-09 00:45:54.286912 200 465ms