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title: derivatives
description: This page provides instructions on how to extract crypto derivatives
  data from CoinGecko API using Python. It provides detailed information on the parameters
  used in the extraction code for both 'Model' and 'Chart' categories, along with
  the return data format.
keywords:
- CoinGecko API
- crypto derivatives
- data extraction
- cryptocurrency
- data sorting
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Get list of crypto derivatives from CoinGecko API [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_model.py#L375)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.derivatives(sortby: str = "Rank", ascend: bool = False)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| sortby | str | Key by which to sort data | Rank | True |
| ascend | bool | Flag to sort data descending | False | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Rank, Market, Symbol, Price, Pct_Change_24h, Contract_Type, Basis, Spread,<br/>Funding_Rate, Volume_24h, |
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Shows  list of crypto derivatives. [Source: CoinGecko]

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/cryptocurrency/overview/pycoingecko_view.py#L645)]

```python
openbb.crypto.ov.derivatives_chart(sortby: str = "Rank", ascend: bool = False, limit: int = 15, export: str = "")
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| limit | int | Number of records to display | 15 | True |
| sortby | str | Key by which to sort data | Rank | True |
| ascend | bool | Flag to sort data descending | False | True |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx file |  | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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