Python Client for DefiLlama API, Part 1

TVL

Update: I now made this into a package called defillama2. You can install it via pip install defillama2.

DefiLlama recently released their token price API but I couldn’t find any python clients for it. So I decided to write one myself. In total, DefiLlama offers five APIs: TVL, coins, stabelcoins, yields, and abi-decoder. I finished the TVL API and here are the things you can do with it:

• Get historical DeFi TVL on all chains

• Get historical TVL of a chain

• Get current TVL of all chains

• Get current TVL of a protocol

• Get current TVL of a protocol by chain

• Get historical TVL of a protocol by chain

• Get fundamentals for all protocols

To use it, import/load this script, instantiate a DefiLlama object, and invoke method calls. All method calls return a tidy data frame that’s ready for downstream analysis.

obj = DefiLlama()

# major method calls
obj.get_defi_hist_tvl()                   # don't give any input
obj.get_chain_hist_tvl('Arbitrum')        # or any chain name
obj.get_chains_curr_tvl()                 # don't give any input
obj.get_protocol_curr_tvl('gmx')          # or any protocol name
obj.get_protocol_curr_tvl_by_chain('gmx') # or any protocol name
obj.get_protocol_hist_tvl_by_chain('gmx') # or any protocol name
obj.get_protocols_fundamentals()          # don't give any input

Code

• Python client for DeFiLlama’s API

• Python notebook for demonstration

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