polymarket

To get Polymarket prediction market prices and orderbooks, you query the CLOB API using a specific market token. This approach fetches real-time orderbook depth and current pricing data for individual market tokens.

The best way to search for Polymarket events and markets is using the Gamma API. It provides market discovery functionality, allowing you to find specific events and markets by querying against the public REST API.

You retrieve historical price data and recent prediction market trades by using the CLOB history endpoint and Data API. These public REST APIs provide recent trade records, open interest data, and historical price movements.

Polymarket API JSON responses require double parsing with json.loads because some fields are double-encoded as strings. Parsing these string fields ensures the nested data is correctly extracted into usable JSON objects.

No API key or authentication is needed to access Polymarket market data because the Skill uses public REST APIs. It provides read-only data access for market search, prices, orderbooks, and price history without authentication requirements.

Key limitations when querying Polymarket data include rate-limit awareness and the need for robust error handling. The public REST APIs are read-only, meaning you cannot execute trades or place orders through this data retrieval method.