Polymarket best practices

Use when building developer integrations with Polymarket.

Mental model

• Polymarket exposes several distinct surfaces, and each serves a different job:
  • Gamma API for market discovery and metadata
  • Data API for user positions, activity, and analytics
  • CLOB API for order books, prices, and trading
  • WebSocket feeds for low-latency realtime updates
• Treat these as separate system boundaries instead of one generic “Polymarket API”.
• Keep market discovery, trading, and analytics concerns separated in your architecture.

API selection