BitstampClient

Python package to communicate with the bitstamp.net API.

Compatible with Python 2.7+ and Python 3.3+

Overview

There are two classes. One for the public part of API and a second for the trading part.

Public class doesn’t need user credentials, because API commands which this class implements are not bound to bitstamp user account.

Description of API: https://www.bitstamp.net/api/

Install

Install from git:

pip install git+git://github.com/kmadac/bitstamp-python-client.git

Usage

Here’s a quick example of usage:

>>> import bitstamp.client

>>> public_client = bitstamp.client.Public()
>>> print(public_client.ticker()['volume'])
8700.01208078

>>> trading_client = bitstamp.client.Trading(
...     username='999999', key='xxx', secret='xxx')
>>> print(trading_client.account_balance()['fee'])
0.5000
>>> print(trading_client.ticker()['volume'])   # Can access public methods
8700.01208078

How to activate a new API key

Login your Bitstamp account
Click on Security -> Api Access
Select permissions which you want to have for you access key (if you don’t check any box, you will get error message ‘No permission found’ after each API call)
Click the ‘Generate key’ button and don’t forget to write down your Secret!
Click ‘Activate’
Goto your Inbox and click on link sent by Bitstamp to activate this API key

Class diagram

Release files for BitstampClient 2.0

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Source distribution (sdist)

Source distribution for BitstampClient 2.0
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Release files / BitstampClient-2.0.tar.gz

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