Restart a backtest | POST /backtest/{id}/restart

POST https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/backtest/{id}/restart

Runs one of your backtests again with the current config of its template or bot and the settings you send. Settings you leave out fall back to the last month as date range, the start balance of the previous run and your highest plan.

OAuth scope: read manage About scopes

Requires an active subscription or trial; otherwise the request is refused with 403.

Example request

curl -X POST "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/backtest/BACKTEST_ID/restart" \
  -H "access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"start_date":"2026-08-01 00:00:00","end_date":"2026-08-31 00:00:00","start_amount":1000,"maker_fee":0.1,"taker_fee":0.1,"subscription_id":3}'

const response = await fetch('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/backtest/BACKTEST_ID/restart', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
      "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
      "start_date": "2026-08-01 00:00:00",
      "end_date": "2026-08-31 00:00:00",
      "start_amount": 1000,
      "maker_fee": 0.1,
      "taker_fee": 0.1,
      "subscription_id": 3
  })
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/backtest/BACKTEST_ID/restart",
    headers={
        "access-token": "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
    },
    json={
        "start_date": "2026-08-01 00:00:00",
        "end_date": "2026-08-31 00:00:00",
        "start_amount": 1000,
        "maker_fee": 0.1,
        "taker_fee": 0.1,
        "subscription_id": 3
    },
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.cryptohopper.com/v1/backtest/BACKTEST_ID/restart');
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'access-token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN',
        'Content-Type: application/json',
    ],
    CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
        'start_date' => '2026-08-01 00:00:00',
        'end_date' => '2026-08-31 00:00:00',
        'start_amount' => 1000,
        'maker_fee' => 0.1,
        'taker_fee' => 0.1,
        'subscription_id' => 3,
    ]),
]);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

Parameters

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`access-token`	string	Required	The OAuth access token of the user.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`id`	string	Required	Backtest ID, as returned by List backtests.

Response

Example response (illustrative values)

{
    "data": "Backtest restarted."
}

Status codes: 200. Errors return JSON with status, error and message. See How the API works for response codes and rate limits.