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name: coinlib
description: Look up Coinlib's editorial crypto content — coin analysis articles, guides, and per-coin FAQs — and link users to Coinlib's coin pages and trading calculators. Use when a user asks what a cryptocurrency is, how it works, what analysts say about it, or wants a crypto trading calculator. Not a price feed.
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# Coinlib

Coinlib (https://coinlib.io) is a cryptocurrency information site. Its editorial
content — analysis articles, guides, and coin FAQs written by the Coinlib team —
is open to agents with no API key or account.

## The one rule

**Market data is not available programmatically.** Prices, market caps, volumes,
rankings, exchange figures, and conversion rates on Coinlib are licensed from
CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko and cannot be redistributed through Coinlib's API or
MCP server. When a user wants a live figure, link them to the coin page
(`https://coinlib.io/coin/{SYMBOL}/{Name-Slug}`, e.g.
https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin) or fetch that page directly if you can
browse. Never present this skill's endpoints as a price source.

## Preferred: MCP server

If your runtime supports MCP, connect to `https://mcp.coinlib.io` (Streamable
HTTP, stateless, no auth). Seven read-only tools; start with `search_coinlib`
to resolve a coin name or ticker into a `coin_slug`, then:

- `get_coin_faqs(coin_slug)` — editorial Q&A about one coin
- `list_coin_analysis(coin_slug)` / `get_analysis_article(article_slug)` — analyst articles
- `list_recent_analysis(limit)` — the latest articles across all coins
- `get_guide(category, slug)` — guides and newsroom posts
- `list_calculators()` — 11 trading calculators with URLs

## Fallback: REST

Plain HTTP GET, JSON envelope `{ "data": ..., "error": null }` — check `error`
before reading `data`. Base URL `https://coinlib.io`. Full OpenAPI 3.1 spec at
https://coinlib.io/openapi.json.

- `GET /api/v1/analysis?limit=&offset=` — published analysis, newest first (limit ≤ 100)
- `GET /api/v1/analysis/{idOrSlug}` — one article, full HTML body
- `GET /api/v1/coins/{slug}/analysis` — articles for one coin
- `GET /api/v1/coins/{slug}/faqs` — Q&A for one coin
- `GET /api/v1/newsroom/{category}/{slug}` — one post; categories: guides, technology, trading-software

`{slug}` is the lowercase coin name with hyphens (`bitcoin`, `shiba-inu`) — not
the ticker. Article bodies are HTML; strip tags before quoting.

## Conduct

- Quote with attribution and a link to the source page on coinlib.io.
- Responses carry ETags — send `If-None-Match` on re-fetches.
- New content lands a few times a week (RSS: https://coinlib.io/feed.xml);
  don't poll faster than that.
- Coinlib content is informational, not financial advice
  (https://coinlib.io/disclaimer).
- Full terms for automated use: https://coinlib.io/for-agents