hitbtc-wss 1.0.6

HitBTC Websocket API Client

hitbtc_wss

HitBTC Websocket API 2.0 Client written in Python 3.

Forked from Crypto-toolbox/hitbtc_wss. At the time of this writing, Crypto-toolbox had not accepted a pull request into his repo in 7 months. Seems like they might have moved on to do other things. I figured I'd pick the ball up and run with it.

Release History

Date	Description
09/02/2018	Published bug fix to PyPi so the login method works with HitBTC v2 login method.

The client supplies data both visually via console, as well as python objects via its HitBTC.recv(). It's important to note that this does not receive data from the API directly - instead, the data is pulled from a queue.Queue object, which defaults to a length of 100 items. So only the last 100 messages will be cached - either make sure you process the messages fast enough, or increase the length of the queue (can be done by passing the q_maxsize kwarg on instantiation).

By default, data is unpacked - that means you will never see the raw JSONRPC message (this, too, can be turned off by passing raw=True upon initialization). This will, however, also turn off all handling of error messages etc.

For an in-depth description of the client and its methods, please see the documenation at readthedocs.org

Installation

Stable: pip install hitbtc_wss Release Candidate: pip install --pre hitbtc_wss

Example Usage

import time
import queue
from hitbtc_wss import HitBTC
c = HitBTC()
c.start()  # start the websocket connection
time.sleep(2)  # Give the socket some time to connect
c.subscribe_ticker(symbol='ETHBTC') # Subscribe to ticker data for the pair ETHBTC

while True:
    try:
        data = c.recv()
    except queue.Empty:
        continue

    # process data from websocket
    ...

c.stop()