Coinbase SDK

Tribulnation SDK implementation for Coinbase.

Installation

pip install tribulnation-coinbase

Recommended account configuration

Prefer an authenticated accounts.Coinbase() account, especially for tickers(): authenticated quotes are batched in groups of up to 100 products.

Use accounts.Coinbase(public=True) to allow a credential-free fallback. The router still prefers resolved credentials when available. Without credentials, tickers() makes one public book request per selected product, so pass market IDs to limit request volume. Authentication failures never trigger an automatic switch to public endpoints.

Ticker quotes and product identity

spot represents Coinbase Advanced Trade spot products. IDs remain native Advanced Trade product IDs, such as BTC-USD. INTX perpetuals are not supported: Coinbase retires them on the Advanced Trade API on 2026-10-01, moving international derivatives to a Deribit-powered gateway (ADR 0031).

Coinbase(public=True) supports spot market discovery, rules and tickers without credentials. Public discovery uses the complete default product response. A response indicating more pages, missing completion metadata or duplicate IDs raises an error: live small-page sweeps can omit products, so deduplication cannot guarantee completeness.

Authenticated bulk tickers combine catalogue last-trade prices and base volumes with the best-bid/ask endpoint, including quoted sizes. Quotes are fetched in bounded batches for the selected products, under the caller's retry context. A missing book or empty side remains None; request failures propagate. The two sources are separate observations, not an atomic snapshot.

Public tickers use one public.book(limit=1) request per selected product to obtain native bid/ask prices and sizes. Pass selected market IDs to limit request volume; a full exchange sweep needs a book request for every product. Each request uses the caller's retry context. Account fees, balances and trading still require credentials.