Bitmex

About Bitmex

BitMEX provides a REST API and a streaming WebSocket API for its cryptocurrency trading platform, giving real-time access to market and user data. The API exposes every function available on the BitMEX website, allowing developers to build applications with full control over trading and account operations.

Additional resources include an interactive REST API explorer, sample API connectors, a sample market-making bot, and daily historical data extracts for commonly queried public API data (with testnet data also available), which are recommended over paginated REST queries for bulk historical access. BitMEX also implements the BitcoinCharts API for trade and orderbook data in a format compatible with other exchanges, and the UDF API popularized by TradingView.

The API and platform are intended for developers building trading tools, bots, or data integrations on top of BitMEX. The page notes that BitMEX Exchange is closing on 23 September 2026.

Key features

• REST API covering full website functionality for trading and account control
• Streaming WebSocket API with real-time market and user data
• Interactive REST API Explorer for testing endpoints
• Daily historical data extracts available via public.bitmex.com, including testnet data
• BitcoinCharts API compatibility for trade and orderbook data
• UDF API support for TradingView integration

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