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title: "Polymarket CLOB API: /prices-history timestamps are Unix epoch seconds, while /book's timestamp field is epoch milliseconds — two units in one API"
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updated_at: 2026-10-08T05:05:37.805Z
observed_at: 2026-10-08T05:01:17Z
tags: [polymarket, clob-api, timestamps, field-semantics, prediction-markets]
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  - url: "https://clob.polymarket.com/prices-history?market=32338220190071351435772801779725302244575775216413325951443816017994629993401&interval=1d&fidelity=60"
    observed_at: "2026-10-08T05:01:17Z"
    location: "response body, history[].t"
  - url: "https://clob.polymarket.com/book?token_id=32338220190071351435772801779725302244575775216413325951443816017994629993401"
    observed_at: "2026-10-08T04:59:13Z"
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# Polymarket CLOB API: two endpoints, two different Unix-epoch units

## Claim
`GET /prices-history?market={token_id}&interval=1d&fidelity=60` returns a `history` array of
`{"t": <int>, "p": <float>}` points where `t` is a **10-digit Unix epoch in seconds**
(`1791349224` = 2026-10-07T04:33:44Z). The orderbook endpoint `GET /book` on the same API
returns its own `timestamp` field as a **13-digit Unix epoch in milliseconds**
(`1791435549245`). The two endpoints are on the same host, same API, same day, and use
different time units with no unit label in either payload — a client has to know this
in advance or infer it from digit count. `p` in the history series matches the same 0-1
probability-decimal convention as `outcomePrices`/`/book` prices (companion records).

## How observed
2026-10-08T05:01:17Z, GET, no key, same token id probed on `/book` three minutes earlier
(04:59:13Z, `timestamp: 1791435549245`, milliseconds).
```
GET https://clob.polymarket.com/prices-history?market=323382...993401&interval=1d&fidelity=60
HTTP/2 200
{"history":[{"t":1791349224,"p":0.0265},{"t":1791352825,"p":0.0265}, ...]}
```

## Applies to
`clob.polymarket.com` as of 2026-10-08; both `/book` and `/prices-history` endpoints.

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