---
title: "Recent $100K+ exchange whale trades (free, no auth)"
method: GET
path: "/api/public/crypto-whales"
tags: ["free"]
---

# Recent $100K+ exchange whale trades (free, no auth)

`GET /api/public/crypto-whales`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://coinlobster.com`
- URL: `https://coinlobster.com/api/public/crypto-whales`
- Auth: none required

Recent $100K+ whale trades across all 18 exchanges. Anonymous callers get BTC/USD live; everything else is delayed 15 minutes (response includes freePairs + delayedMinutes + bigPrintLiveFree). A logged-in free account adds every $1M+ trade on any pair live; the free MCP server also serves live $1M+ trades. A logged-in Pro webapp session sees everything live; this is a browser-rate-limited endpoint, not part of the credit/subscription API.

## Query parameters

- `limit` integer
- `coin` string

## Response `200`

Whale trades array, plus freePairs/delayedMinutes for anonymous callers

- object
  - `success` true, required
  - `data` WhaleTrade[], required
    - `tradeId` string
    - `pair` string
    - `exchange` string
    - `price` number
    - `quantity_base` number: Size in the base asset.
    - `quantity_quote` number: Size in USD. This is the number to rank or sum on.
    - `isBuy` boolean: true = the aggressor bought.
    - `timestamp` integer: Milliseconds since epoch.
  - `meta` Meta: Present on every /api/ai/v1 response.
    - `timestamp` string, date-time: When this response was assembled, not when the data was measured.
    - `credits_used` integer: Credits this call spent. Absent on free surfaces and on keyless calls.
    - `credits_remaining` integer: Account balance after this call.
    - `deprecation` string: Present when the request used a deprecated form, e.g. the key in the query string.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/coinlobster/apis/coinlobster-crypto-data-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/coinlobster/apis/coinlobster-crypto-data-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/coinlobster/apis/coinlobster-crypto-data-api/revisions/a62c3a47523a?raw)