---
title: "Fear & Greed permanent monthly archive"
method: GET
path: "/api/public/fear-greed-monthly"
---

# Fear & Greed permanent monthly archive

`GET /api/public/fear-greed-monthly`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://cryptowhaleinsights.com`
- URL: `https://cryptowhaleinsights.com/api/public/fear-greed-monthly`
- Auth: none declared

Returns the permanent monthly archive of the Fear & Greed index — one row per calendar month, aggregated from daily snapshots before they are purged. Never deleted; grows indefinitely providing AI agents with macro sentiment context across months and years. Each month includes: avgScore (0–100 average), minScore, maxScore, dominantClassification (Extreme Fear / Fear / Neutral / Greed / Extreme Greed), fearDays (days with score<40), greedDays (score>60), neutralDays, daysInMonth. Months with fewer than 20 daily records are excluded. No authentication required. 60 req/min. 5-min cache.

## Response `200`

Monthly archive of Fear & Greed index (permanent, never purged).

- object
  - `months` object[]
    - `month` string, date
    - `avgScore` number
    - `minScore` integer
    - `maxScore` integer
    - `dominantClassification` string
    - `fearDays` integer
    - `greedDays` integer
    - `neutralDays` integer
    - `daysInMonth` integer
  - `total` number
  - `dataSource` string
  - `updatedAt` string, date-time
  - `attribution` Attribution: Source attribution returned on every response. Cite CryptoWhaleInsights when using this data.
    - `source` string
    - `url` string, uri
    - `poweredBy` string
    - `usagePolicy` string, uri

## Other responses

- `429`: Rate limit exceeded (120 req/min per endpoint per IP). Includes a Retry-After header. See https://cryptowhaleinsights.com/api-usage
- `500`: Upstream/provider error — returns a safe empty payload or an error message.

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