Exante CLI

Terminal client for the Exante HTTP API — trade, query market data, and manage your account from the shell.

API docs: https://api-live.exante.eu/api-docs/

Install

pip install exante-cli
exante --help

Configuration

All behaviour that isn't a per-command argument is driven by the persisted config. Set defaults once with exante config set and they apply to every invocation:

exante config set --env demo            # trading env: live or demo
exante config set --account <ACC>       # default account id
exante config set --currency EUR        # default currency

Flags can be combined in one call:

exante config set --env demo --account <ACC> --currency EUR

Inspect the current defaults and the config file location:

exante config show

Setting	Flag	Values	Default
Trading env	--env	live / demo	live
Account	--account	account id	unset (per slot)
Currency	--currency	currency code	EUR (per slot)

The default account and currency are stored per trading-env slot — the same way credentials are slotted — so demo and live keep their own defaults and switching env never reuses the wrong account. config set --account writes to the slot being configured (after any --env in the same call), and config show displays the active slot's values.

Config lives at ~/.config/exante/config.toml.

Auth

Credentials resolve with precedence flag > keychain > config:

Source	How
flags	--app-id + one of --shared-secret-file / --shared-secret
keychain	stored by exante login (browser login), per trading env
config	written directly in ~/.config/exante/config.toml ([auth] section)

Credential flags are global — put them before the subcommand:

exante --app-id 1a2b3c4d-... --shared-secret s3cr3t... accounts
exante --app-id 1a2b3c4d-... --shared-secret-file ~/.exante/secret accounts

Browser login (recommended)

exante login                # opens the browser (PKCE), stores the key in the keychain
exante login --no-browser   # print the URL instead of opening a browser
exante logout               # clear stored credentials (config + both keychain slots)

login authorizes against the configured environment and stores the key in the keychain slot for that trading env — so credentials for demo never clobber live. Switch with exante config set --env live|demo first, then re-run login.

After a successful login it auto-runs accounts; if that slot has exactly one account it is saved as the slot's default account. (Any exante accounts call does this — a single visible account is always written as the slot default.)

Commands

Global options (--output/-o table|json, --verbose/-v, --api-url, --api-version, credential flags) must precede the subcommand:

exante -o json quote AAPL.NASDAQ

Top-level shortcuts

exante buy AAPL.NASDAQ 100 limit 150      # place a buy order
exante sell AAPL.NASDAQ 100 limit 155     # place a sell order
exante order <ORDER_ID>                   # get one order
exante cancel <ORDER_ID>                  # cancel a working order
exante quote AAPL.NASDAQ                  # last quote
exante xrate USD EUR                      # FX cross-rate
exante crossrates                         # currencies available for cross-rate
exante summary [--account A] [--currency C] [--date D]
exante repl                               # interactive shell (no `exante` prefix)

Command groups

exante accounts

exante symbols get <SYM> | by-exchange <EX> | by-group <G> | nearest <G>
exante symbols exchanges | groups | types | currencies
exante symbols schedule <SYM> [--types] | spec <SYM>

exante market quote <SYM>
exante market ohlc  <SYM> --duration <SEC> [--from --to --size --candle-type]
exante market ticks <SYM> [--from --to --size --tick-type]
exante market crossrate <FROM> <TO>
exante market change --symbols A,B,C

exante orders active [--account --limit]
exante orders list   [--account --limit]
exante orders get <ID>
exante orders place --symbol S --side buy|sell --qty Q [--account A --order-type --limit-price --stop-price --tif --gtt-expiration --client-tag]
exante orders modify <ID> [--qty --limit-price --stop-price]
exante orders cancel <ID>

exante stream feed <SYMS> [--level] | orders | trades | market-trades <SYMS>

exante transactions [--account --from --to --op-type --symbol --limit --offset]

Use fully-qualified symbol ids (<TICKER>.<EXCHANGE>, e.g. AAPL.NASDAQ).

Troubleshooting

A short runbook for the problems users actually hit. Start with -v — it answers most questions on its own.

1. First step for any problem: -v / --verbose

Re-run the failing command with -v. It dumps to stderr the exact request httpx put on the wire (method, final URL, all headers, body) and the full response (status line, headers, body):

exante -v quote AAPL.NASDAQ

> GET https://api-live.exante.eu/md/3.0/feed/AAPL.NASDAQ
> host: api-live.exante.eu
> authorization: Basic TOKEN
> user-agent: exante-cli/<version>
< HTTP 404 Not Found
< content-type: application/json
< body: {"message":"Symbol not found"}

This tells you instantly which URL was called (so you can confirm env/version), whether auth was sent, and what the server actually answered.

-v prints the Authorization header in clear. Redact it before pasting verbose output into a ticket or chat.

2. See the raw API answer: -o json

When the rendered table hides what you need, ask for the unformatted response and pipe it through jq:

exante -o json symbols get AAPL.NASDAQ | jq .

-o json prints exactly what the API returned, with no table/column massaging — handy for spotting missing fields or unexpected values.

3. Reading the error category

Errors are categorised, so the prefix tells you where to look:

You see	Likely cause	What to do
Authentication failed: HTTP 401	wrong/expired credentials	re-run exante login, or check --app-id / the active slot with exante config show
Authentication failed: HTTP 403	user has no permission on the instrument / no subscription	verify the user's permissions and subscriptions
Validation error: HTTP 404	wrong symbol id / no permissions	use a fully-qualified TICKER.EXCHANGE id; confirm permissions (404 doesn't always mean "not found")
Validation error: HTTP 400/422	malformed request / bad arguments	re-check flags; run with -v —if a bug in the CLI message support@exante.eu
HTTP 429 rate limit	too many requests	user can raise the limits in the HTTP API (use dashboard in client's area to increase)