Skills fear-and-greed

Access the Alternative.me Crypto Fear & Greed Index. Use this tool to anchor your baseline market sentiment analysis, determining whether the broader retail market is in a state of Extreme Fear (capitulation risk) or Extreme Greed (euphoria/correction risk).

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/arielcaba-dev/fear-and-greed-index" ~/.claude/skills/clawdbot-skills-fear-and-greed && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/arielcaba-dev/fear-and-greed-index/SKILL.md

source content

Crypto Fear & Greed Index API

Access the global crypto market sentiment baseline using the free Alternative.me API.

API Endpoint

Base URL:

https://api.alternative.me/fng/

The API requires no authentication or API keys.

Get Current Sentiment

Fetch the latest daily Fear & Greed metric (0-100 score + classification label):

curl -s "https://api.alternative.me/fng/?limit=1"

Returns a JSON structure containing:

```
value
```
: The 0-100 numerical score.
```
value_classification
```
: The textual label (e.g. "Extreme Fear", "Fear", "Greed", "Extreme Greed").
```
timestamp
```
: Unix epoch of the data point.

Common Use Cases

Sentiment Baseline Anchoring

When conducting qualitative sentiment analysis on news headlines or on-chain flows, first fetch the Fear & Greed index to anchor your assumptions about retail psychology.

If
```
value
```
< 25 (Extreme Fear): The market is highly sensitive to bearish catalysts. Price may be artificially depressed.
If
```
value
```
> 75 (Extreme Greed): The market is euphoric and ignoring risk. High danger of sudden liquidations or corrections.