github.com/diadata-org/diadata@v1.4.593/documentation/api-1/README.md (about) 1 # 💻 API Documentation 2 3 **Find the right data for your needs**\ 4 Show your users the most transparent data on the market with our API. Whether you're building a financial service, a portfolio management tool, a new media offering, or more, we have the most advanced and updated data on the market for your product.\ 5 For Oracle usage see [Oracles in DIA](https://docs.diadata.org/documentation/oracle-documentation). 6 7 **Backtest your strategies**\ 8 Use the most efficient and transparent crypto data to run simulations and backtest your trading or investing strategies. With crowd-aggregated hundreds of exchanges you can be sure that you're getting the right picture every single time. 9 10 **Run Experiments**\ 11 Build your own models with our data, to further your interest or just for fun. With our flexible and powerful API, we provide you with a set of data that will help you draw insights and make conclusions. 12 13 **Request your data**\ 14 Set a bounty on gitcoin.io or drop us a [line](mailto:API@diadata.org). 15 16 Version: 1.0 17 18 ## API Access 19 20 The DIA base url is `https://api.diadata.org/v1`. All API paths are sub-paths of this base URL. You can find specific documentation for the endpoints of our API on the [API documentation site](https://docs.diadata.org/documentation/api-1/api-endpoints).  21 22 ## Use cases 23 24 ### Bash scripting 25 26 The API can be accessed through a Linux terminal by using curl. For example\ 27 `curl https://api.diadata.org/v1/interestrate/ESTER/2020-03-16 >> userPath/myFile.txt`\ 28 writes the return value of the GET request into `myFile.txt` for further processing. 29 30 ### Usage with Python 31 32 The JSON object obtained in an API GET request complies with Python syntax. It can be cast into a list or dictionary resp. using Python's `eval(string)` function.