Spec

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/cot-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/cot-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/cot-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/cot-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "source": "US CFTC public reporting — legacy futures-only (live)",
        "service": "cot-api",
        "endpoints": {
            "GET /v1/meta": "This document.",
            "GET /v1/report": "Latest COT report for a market (market=EURO FX): positions by trader category, net, change.",
            "GET /v1/history": "Weekly positioning history for a market (market=, weeks up to 104).",
            "GET /v1/markets": "Search the reported markets (q=GOLD) to find exact names."
        },
        "description": "Live Commitments of Traders (COT) futures-positioning data from the US CFTC: for any market (Euro FX, Gold, Crude Oil, S&P 500, Bitcoin), the latest weekly report of long and short contracts held by commercials, non-commercials (large speculators) and small non-reportable traders, with each group's net position and share of open interest, total open interest, week-over-week change and trader counts; a market search; and weekly positioning history. Live, no key, nothing stored. Distinct from price and open-interest APIs — this is who is long and short, by trader category.",
        "upstream_status": "ok"
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-09T11:39:18.664Z",
        "request_id": "1f8f76a7-edce-4aee-bfb2-b90bbc247810"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta",
    "success": true
}