Use case, Live crypto prices

Live crypto prices API for your agent. One call per lookup.

Send a coin symbol, slug or ID. Read price and market cap back. Your agent picks the provider, and you pay per call.

Give this to your agent
set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

The job

What the Live crypto prices API gives your agent

A crypto price lookup returns the latest price and the market data around it. Your agent sends a symbol and reads back the price, the market cap, the 24 hour volume and the 24 hour change. For a list view, it pages through the active coins with filters on market cap and supply.

All the endpoints here come from one provider, CoinMarketCap, and each answers a different question. One returns the latest quote for coins by symbol, slug or ID. One lists all active coins with their latest data. One converts an amount between a coin and a fiat currency or another coin. One returns global market metrics.

You give

a coin symbol, slug or ID

BTC,ETH

You get

  • Price
  • Market cap
  • 24 hour volume
  • 24 hour change
  • Currency conversion

Sample calls

The request and what comes back

Each run is one POST to /v1/runs with an endpoint id and an input. These are illustrative calls with generic values. The run's result holds the provider's own fields.

Request
{"endpointId":"coinmarketcap-cryptocurrency-quotes-latest","input":{"symbol":"BTC,ETH","convert":"USD"},"wait":30}
ResponseSample output
// POST /v1/runs, then read run.status and run.result
// result: returns the latest price, market cap, volume and 24 hour change for coins by symbol, slug or ID

The prompt

Copy one prompt, give it to your agent.

Edit the names and numbers, paste it, and the agent runs the job and shows the cost.

  • One run is one lookup.
  • 1 steps across 1 providers.
  • Runs on demand, whenever you ask.
Prompt: Live crypto prices API
Use looot to get the current price, market cap, 24 hour volume and 24 hour change of BTC,ETH in USD, and convert 1 BTC to EUR. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for each step and check its price before you call. 3. Run the cheapest endpoint that fits. 4. Show the results as a table and the total cost.

Give this to your agent
Setup command
set up looot - https://looot.ai/skill.md

Before you start

Settle these before the first run

  • Use the symbol or the ID with care. Several coins share a symbol, and an ID or a slug picks the right one.
  • Ask for the convert currency you need. Each extra convert currency adds to the credit use, and the live price shows the base call.
  • This is data, not advice. Prices move, and the number you read is the one at the time of the call.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Send the coin symbols to the quotes endpoint with the currency you want. Your agent reads back the price, the market cap and the 24 hour change.

For agents
use case
Live crypto prices API
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lookup
schedule
on demand
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Fetch the prices: coinmarketcap
setup
https://looot.ai/skill.md
llms.txt
https://looot.ai/llms.txt
updated
2026-10-04
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Try Live crypto prices with your own agent.

Start your workspace, top up, and paste the prompt into the agent you already use.

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