Custom Axiom API for Token Analytics

The client needed access to key Solana token metrics such as the number of holders, transactions, market capitalization, and other data published on Axiom, where no official API exists. Third-party services did not provide the needed metrics or had strict limitations, so a custom solution was required to automatically collect and analyze these metrics directly from the site.

Solution

I developed a custom API for scraping Axiom data, where metrics are extracted directly from token pages. The system uses asynchronous requests (aiohttp) and HTML parsing (BeautifulSoup) to extract all required values even without a public API.

The API processes the scraped data, normalizes it (cleans text, converts numbers, formats dates), and returns structured responses via FastAPI.

To increase stability, I added:

• a system of retries and timeouts to handle temporary Axiom outages;
• caching to reduce load and speed up repeated requests;
• error handling and fallback logic to return the latest valid data when the source is unavailable.

Result

The result is a reliable API that provides real-time Solana token metrics from the Axiom website despite the lack of an official interface.

The API is used for analytics, monitoring new tokens, and evaluating holder activity, helping users identify promising projects and make faster trading decisions. The solution is fully autonomous, does not depend on paid third-party APIs, and works stably under high load while delivering up-to-date data at any time.