Getting Started02
Getting Started with Fomo API: Installation and First Request
A beginner-friendly setup guide for creating a Fomo API key, configuring environment variables and making your first leaderboard request in JavaScript and Python.
3 min
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Build better systems with social trading data.
Detailed, practical guides to Fomo API, trader discovery, wallet monitoring and production-grade bot architecture.
Knowledge base
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10 articles
Use Cases03
What Can You Build with Fomo Family Social Trading Data?
Explore practical Fomo API use cases, from trader discovery dashboards and wallet alerts to portfolio analytics, research tools and trading agents.
3 min
API Guide04
How to Use Every Main Fomo API Feature
A practical walkthrough of leaderboards, trader resolution, balances, swaps, spotlight, rankings and snapshots with request examples and implementation advice.
3 min
Architecture05
How Fomo API Works: From Social Profiles to Normalized Trading Data
Understand Fomo API's data model, response envelope, wallet normalization, caching, freshness and the architecture behind reliable social trading integrations.
3 min
Engineering Guide06
How to Extend a Fomo API Integration Safely
A complete guide to organizing, testing and extending your Fomo API client with typed models, adapters, observability and contribution standards.
4 min
Reliability07
API Polling Without Rate-Limit Problems
Design a fair, reliable Fomo API polling scheduler with controlled concurrency, jitter, Retry-After support and stale-checkpoint monitoring.
2 min
Data Engineering08
How to Deduplicate Trader Swaps Reliably
Prevent duplicate alerts and orders by combining unique swap IDs, database constraints, ordered processing and transactional checkpoints.
2 min
Tutorial09
Detecting Crypto Position Changes from Balance Snapshots
Normalize trader balances and classify opened, increased, reduced and closed positions while avoiding false signals from prices, transfers and indexer updates.
2 min
Strategy Research10
How to Select Traders for Copy-Trading Research
Build a responsible trader discovery score using multi-window performance, volume, experience, drawdown, concentration and liquidity instead of chasing leaderboard rank.
2 min