---
title: "Currency Search (Typeahead)"
method: GET
path: "/search/currencies"
tags: ["search"]
---

# Currency Search (Typeahead)

`GET /search/currencies`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.coinvoyage.io/v2`
- URL: `https://api.coinvoyage.io/v2/search/currencies`
- Auth: API key in header `X-API-KEY`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/coinvoyage/apis/coinvoyage-api/docs/search/currencies/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Token search / typeahead for source and destination pickers. Filtered to chains we can quote against. Cacheable for 5 minutes (Cache-Control: max-age=300). Queries shorter than 2 characters return an empty list.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required
- `chain_ids` string
- `limit` integer

## Headers

- `X-API-KEY` string, required

## Response `200`

Ranked currency matches (exact symbol → prefix → name → substring → address-prefix). May be empty.

- CurrencySearchResponse
  - `currencies` CurrencySearchItem[], required
    - `id` string, required
    - `chain_id` 1 | 10 | 56 | 137 | 8453 | 42161 | 20000000000001 | 30000000000001 | 30000000000002, required
    - `address` string, nullable
    - `symbol` string, required
    - `name` string, required
    - `decimals` integer, required
    - `image_uri` string, nullable
    - `price_usd` number, nullable

## Other responses

- `401`: Unauthorized
- `429`: Per-IP rate-limit exceeded

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