---
title: "Get a market's flow and top positions"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/market/{condition_id}/flow"
tags: ["Markets"]
---

# Get a market's flow and top positions

`GET /api/v1/market/{condition_id}/flow`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.0xinsider.com`
- URL: `https://api.0xinsider.com/api/v1/market/{condition_id}/flow`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2
    - Authorization code: `https://0xinsider.com/oauth/authorize`
    - Token URL: `https://api.0xinsider.com/oauth/token` scopes: `read`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/0xinsider/apis/0xinsider-api/docs/api/v1/market/:condition_id/flow/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Canonical since #16312; GET /api/v1/market/{condition_id}/intel is its deprecated alias and serves the same body under object market_intel. One market's flow and top positions: the signed flow of every tracked large trade in the window (net_flow_usd and its YES or NO direction), the large-trade count, gross buy and sell volumes, and the top five graded trader positions.

## Path parameters

- `condition_id` string, required

## Query parameters

- `timeframe` '1h' | '4h' | '24h' | '7d'

## Headers

- `X-Query-Validation` 'strict'
- `If-None-Match` string

## Response `200`

One market's flow and top positions

- object
  - `object` 'market_flow', required
  - `data` MarketFlow, required
    - `market` object, required
      - `id` string, required
      - `condition_id` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `slug` string, nullable, required
      - `category` string, nullable, required
      - `platform` string, nullable, required
    - `sharp_money` object, required: Outcome-aware flow from all tracked whale trades in the window, without a grade filter. BUY YES and SELL NO add net exposure; BUY NO and SELL YES subtract it. Gross buy/sell volumes count both outcomes. Top positions are separately graded. Direction uses unrounded net: negative is NO, otherwise YES; the zero tie-break is not conviction. Canonical; smart_money is a deprecated byte-identical alias.
      - `net_flow_usd` number, required
      - `direction` 'YES' | 'NO', required
      - `token_id` string, nullable, required: The Polymarket CLOB token id (ERC1155 asset id, decimal string) for the net-flow direction outcome; null when unavailable (e.g. unsynced markets).
      - `large_trade_count` integer: Canonical key since #16304 (Polymarket's noun is large trade); whale_trade_count is its deprecated spelling, emitted beside it with the same value.
      - `whale_trade_count` integer, required
      - `buy_volume_usd` number, required
      - `sell_volume_usd` number, required
      - `top_positions` object[], required
        - `id` string, required
        - `address` string, required
        - `username` string, nullable, required
        - `grade` string, nullable, required
        - `side` 'YES' | 'NO', required
        - `token_id` string, nullable, required: The Polymarket CLOB token id (ERC1155 asset id, decimal string) for this outcome; null when unavailable (e.g. unsynced markets).
        - `size_usd` number, required
      - `oldest_snapshot_as_of` string, date-time, nullable, required: Age of the oldest stored position snapshot behind top_positions: the minimum wallet sync clock over the positions this body publishes. The roster is a stored read rather than a live one, and graded wallets sit on different sync tiers, so this names how current the whole roster is; the response is no fresher than this timestamp. Null when the roster is empty or no published position carries a sync clock. It does not date net_flow_usd, the volumes or the trade counts, which come from large-trade event times.
    - `smart_money` object, required: Deprecated alias of sharp_money; byte-identical and retained for backward compatibility.
      - `net_flow_usd` number, required
      - `direction` 'YES' | 'NO', required
      - `token_id` string, nullable, required: The Polymarket CLOB token id (ERC1155 asset id, decimal string) for the net-flow direction outcome; null when unavailable (e.g. unsynced markets).
      - `large_trade_count` integer: Canonical key since #16304 (Polymarket's noun is large trade); whale_trade_count is its deprecated spelling, emitted beside it with the same value.
      - `whale_trade_count` integer, required
      - `buy_volume_usd` number, required
      - `sell_volume_usd` number, required
      - `top_positions` object[], required
        - `id` string, required
        - `address` string, required
        - `username` string, nullable, required
        - `grade` string, nullable, required
        - `side` 'YES' | 'NO', required
        - `token_id` string, nullable, required: The Polymarket CLOB token id (ERC1155 asset id, decimal string) for this outcome; null when unavailable (e.g. unsynced markets).
        - `size_usd` number, required
      - `oldest_snapshot_as_of` string, date-time, nullable, required: Age of the oldest stored position snapshot behind top_positions: the minimum wallet sync clock over the positions this body publishes. The roster is a stored read rather than a live one, and graded wallets sit on different sync tiers, so this names how current the whole roster is; the response is no fresher than this timestamp. Null when the roster is empty or no published position carries a sync clock. It does not date net_flow_usd, the volumes or the trade counts, which come from large-trade event times.
    - `timeframe` string, required
  - `meta` ResponseMeta, required
    - `request_id` string, required: Unique request ID (req_ prefix). The same value as the X-Request-Id response header, the request's usage accounting row and its log lines.
    - `cached` boolean, required
    - `cache_age_s` integer: Cache age in seconds. Omitted when the response was not cached, and also when it was cached but its age cannot be established (an entry stored before its cache carried a computed instant). Never a placeholder: an unknown age is reported as no value rather than as the cache TTL.
    - `cost` integer, required: Advisory request weight (relative compute cost). 1 for simple reads; higher for heavier endpoints. Not a credit/price.
    - `ranking_generation` integer: Committed PostgreSQL-owned leaderboard generation for the returned rows and cursor. Present on GET /api/v1/leaderboard; omitted on endpoints that do not read this ranking.
    - `ranking_as_of` string, date-time: Authoritative RFC3339 timestamp from cache_generations.updated_at for ranking_generation. It is read in the same repeatable-read snapshot as the leaderboard rows and is not request time, cache write time, or row insertion order.
    - `directional_source` 'live' | 'degraded': Which path produced the team-directional read on this response. Only present on endpoints that compute one (today: GET /api/v1/sports-edge-signals). "live" means the read RAN. "degraded" means it FAILED, so nothing was measured and the ranking fell back to raw conviction. The flag describes the READ, not its consequence: a read that ran and found nothing groupable also leaves the directional fields null, and that is honestly "live" -- the per-signal nulls already say "nothing to enrich here", so this snapshot-level flag carries only what they cannot, namely whether the read ran at all. A degraded response is cached on the shorter degraded TTL so it self-heals. Reported SEPARATELY from ranking_source because the two degradations are independent -- a sharp-money DB miss weakens the ranking DATA, a directional failure removes a ranking WEIGHT -- and a consumer down-weighting a degraded response needs to know which input it lost. Omitted on endpoints that compute no directional read.
    - `ranking_source` 'live' | 'db_only': Which ranking-data path produced this response. Only present on endpoints that can degrade a ranking (today: GET /api/v1/sports-edge-signals). "live" is the normal path (the current holder pile from the provider batch); "db_only" is the degraded fallback (a truthful but weaker trader_markets ranking) served when the live sharp-money ranking batch is unavailable (a sharp-money DB read failure, not a Polymarket outage) and cached on a shorter TTL, so a consumer can down-weight or skip it. Omitted on endpoints that never degrade.
    - `category_skill_source` 'live' | 'partial' | 'degraded' | 'unavailable': Whole filtered snapshot category-evidence status before pagination. Operational live always remains partial source coverage.
    - `category_skill_model_version` string
    - `category_skill_taxonomy_version` string
    - `category_skill_platform` 'polymarket'
    - `category_skill_scope` 'observed_goldsky_primary_taker_fill'
    - `category_skill_source_coverage` 'partial_whale_threshold_fills' | 'graded_wallet_fills'
    - `category_skill_observation_started_at` string, date-time
    - `category_skill_model_operationally_degraded` boolean: Whole-model operational readiness captured with the category model snapshot. Present on category-enriched responses even when the filtered signal list is empty. When true, category_skill_source is degraded and sports-edge-signals uses the shorter degraded cache TTL.
    - `category_skill_status_counts` object
      - `live` integer, required
      - `insufficient` integer, required
      - `stale` integer, required
      - `unknown` integer, required
      - `degraded` integer, required
    - `category_skill_base_payload_hash` string: SHA-256 of the funded signal membership/order/rank/cursor vector immediately before category-skill enrichment. Sports-edge-signals only.
    - `category_skill_enriched_base_payload_hash` string: Independent SHA-256 recomputation over the same base fields immediately after category-skill enrichment. Equality with category_skill_base_payload_hash proves shadow enrichment did not change funded inputs. Sports-edge-signals only.

## Other responses

- `304`: Not Modified. Returned when If-None-Match matches the current payload.
- `400`: Invalid request parameter
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key
- `402`: Active Pro subscription required. The key is valid but the account has no active Pro subscription; error.reason is subscription_inactive and error.message names the reactivation URL (https://0xinsider.com/billing). Permanent until a person reactivates: no Retry-After, never retry on a schedule.
- `403`: Account access denied
- `404`: Resource not found
- `408`: The handler did not answer inside the server's 30-second timeout. error.code is request_timeout. On GET and HEAD the response carries Retry-After and error.retry_at; on a mutation it carries neither, because the request may have completed on the server: check its state before repeating it, and reuse its Idempotency-Key.
- `423`: Account is locked
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded. Three independent budgets. (1) 100 requests/minute per user (sliding window), on every authenticated route. (2) On the BATCH routes only: 2500 batch item units/minute per user, reserved before any item is executed. A batch with N requested items costs N item units, including duplicate and invalid items. 2500 = 100 requests x 25 items per batch, which is the most item work a key can buy through the request limiter at all: a caller may spend their entire 100-request minute on full 25-item batches without the item budget being what stops them. The REQUEST budget is the effective ceiling, and batching is never the more expensive choice. The item budget can still deny at a sliding-window boundary (both counters carry the previous window forward with a floor, and the item counter runs 25x the request counter), so honor a 429 from either. Over-quota batches return 429 with Retry-After plus RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, and RateLimit-Reset before any item work is done. (3) The monthly quota: Pro includes 250,000 authenticated requests per UTC calendar month, whatever the billing cadence. Over 250,000: with pay as you go on, requests keep answering and the excess bills at USD 0.20 per 1,000 on a monthly invoice, up to 1,000,000 requests a month; without it, from October 1, 2026, the next request answers 429 rate_limited with error.reason monthly_quota_exceeded and a Retry-After to the month's reset, and from the same day a pay-as-you-go account answers the same past 1,000,000. A refused request is not counted. Every authenticated response carries X-Monthly-Quota-Limit, X-Monthly-Quota-Remaining, and X-Monthly-Quota-Reset (unix seconds, the first of next month). (4) The per-address budget: 1200 requests/minute per IP, shared by every caller behind one address and counted before authentication, on every route. A 429 from it carries error.reason ip_rate_limited and describes that bucket in RateLimit-*; a throttled address (sustained over-limit traffic) carries error.reason ip_throttled with a Retry-After of minutes to days, and a request before it does not shorten the cooldown. Every 429 is the standard error envelope with meta.request_id equal to X-Request-Id.
- `503`: Redis-backed authenticated rate limiter unavailable; retry after the per-process outage cooldown

## Changes

- **2026-09-23** `2035b3316329`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/0xinsider/apis/0xinsider-api/changes/api/v1/market/:condition_id/flow/get.md)

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