Learn how to build your own Cryptocurrency Trading Bot with Python

This video series will walk you through the process of building each aspect of your own cryptocurrency trading bot.

If you’ve been in the cryptocurrency market for more than a few days, you probably know the feeling of the market dropping and you feel hopeless in cashing out your portfolio into a stablecoin or Bitcoin.

Instead of panicking, take control of your portfolio by learning how to write powerful scripts which can instantly execute the trades you need to move in and out of positions.

By the end of this tutorial, you will be equipped with tools which allow you to fully automate and control your portfolio without ever logging into your exchange accounts.

This video series will walk you through the process of building each aspect of your own cryptocurrency trading bot.

The Shrimpy Developer APIs are the premier crypto trading APIs in the market. Collect data across 17+ exchanges, thousands of markets, and more. Access historical tick-by-tick trade data, OHLCV candlesticks, and orderbook snapshots.

Execute trades in real-time or use our smart order routing endpoints. Everything is at the tip of your fingers for immediate integration into your products or services.

Installation

pip install shrimpy-python

Quick Start

All requests are synchronous. For a comprehensive API usage guide, please see https://developers.shrimpy.io/docs.

If you would like to use the async/await style similar to our Node.js library, consider using the asyncio python library to wrap the synchronous requests provided here.

import shrimpy

public_key = 'bea8edb348af226...'
secret_key = 'df84c39fb49026dcad9d99...'
client = shrimpy.ShrimpyApiClient(public_key, secret_key)
ticker = client.get_ticker('bittrex')

Public Endpoints

The clients for both the public and authenticated endpoints are identical. Please note that if you attempt to use the authenticated endpoints without keys, it will fail.

• get_supported_exchanges

supported_exchanges = client.get_supported_exchanges()

• get_exchange_assets

exchange_assets = client.get_exchange_assets('bittrex')

• get_trading_pairs

trading_pairs = client.get_trading_pairs('bittrex')

Market Data Methods

• get_ticker

ticker = client.get_ticker('bittrex')

• get_orderbooks

orderbooks = client.get_orderbooks(
    'bittrex',  # exchange
    'XLM',      # base_symbol
    'BTC',      # quote_symbol
    10          # limit
)

• get_candles

candles = client.get_candles(
    'bittrex',  # exchange
    'XLM',      # base_trading_symbol
    'BTC',      # quote_trading_symbol
    '15m'       # interval
)

Authenticated Endpoints

As mentioned above, please use the provided Shrimpy API keys to access the authenticated endpoints. Endpoints such as user management require the master api key, while endpoints such as trading will work with either a master api key or a user api key.

User Management Methods

• list_users

users = client.list_users()

• get_user

user = client.get_user(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8' # user_id
)

• create_user

create_user_response = client.create_user(
    'mycustomname' # (optional) name
)
user_id = create_user_response['id']

• name_user

client.name_user(
    'mycustomname' # name
)

User API Keys Methods

• get_api_keys

public_user_keys = client.get_api_keys(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8' # user_id
)

• create_api_keys

user_api_keys = client.create_api_keys(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8' # user_id
)

• delete_api_keys

client.delete_api_keys(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',                            # user_id
    '51ac18b7d208f59b3c88acbb1ecefe6ba6be6ea4edc07e7a2450307ddc27ab80' # public_key
)

• get_api_key_permissions

permissions = client.get_api_key_permissions(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',                            # user_id
    '51ac18b7d208f59b3c88acbb1ecefe6ba6be6ea4edc07e7a2450307ddc27ab80' # public_key
)

• set_api_key_permissions

client.set_api_key_permissions(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',                             # user_id
    '51ac18b7d208f59b3c88acbb1ecefe6ba6be6ea4edc07e7a2450307ddc27ab80', # public_key
    True,                                                               # enable account methods
    False                                                               # enable trading methods
)

Account Methods

• list_accounts

accounts = client.list_accounts(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8' # user_id
)

• get_account

account = client.get_account(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # exchange_account_id
)

• link_account

link_account_response = client.link_account(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',                             # user_id
    'binance',                                                          # exchange
    'GOelL5FT6TklPxAzICIQK25aqct52T2lHoKvtcwsFla5sbVXmeePqVJaoXmXI6Qd', # public_key (a.k.a. apiKey)
    'SelUuFq1sF2zGd97Lmfbb4ghITeziKo9IvM5NltjEdffatRN1N5vfHXIU6dsqRQw',  # private_key (a.k.a. secretKey
    'mypassphrase'                                                       # (optional)passphrase - required for exchanges with passphrases like CoinbasePro
)
account_id = link_account_response['id']

• unlink_account

client.unlink_account(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    456                                     # account_id
)

• get_ip_whitelist_addresses

ip_addresses = client.get_ip_whitelist_addresses(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8' # user_id
)

Trading Methods

• create_trade

create_trade_response = client.create_trade(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # account_id
    'BTC',                                  # from_symbol
    'ETH',                                  # to_symbol
    '0.01'                                  # amount of from_symbol
)
trade_id = create_trade_response['id']

• get_trade_status

trade = client.get_trade_status(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # exchange_account_id
    '72dff099-54c0-4a32-b046-5c19d4f55758'  # trade_id
)

• list_active_trades

active_trades = client.list_active_trades(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # exchange_account_id
)

Balance Methods

• get_balance

balance = client.get_balance(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

• get_total_balance_history

total_balance_history = client.get_total_balance_history(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

Asset Management Methods

• rebalance

client.rebalance(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

• get_rebalance_period

rebalance_period_hours = client.get_rebalance_period(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

• set_rebalance_period

client.set_rebalance_period(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # account_id
    24                                      # rebalance_period in hours
)

• get_strategy

strategy = client.get_strategy(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

• set_strategy

client.set_strategy(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',   # user_id
    123,                                      # account_id
    {
        'isDynamic': False,
        'allocations': [
            { 'symbol': 'BTC', 'percent': '50' },
            { 'symbol': 'ETH', 'percent': '50' }
        ]
    }                                         # strategy
)

• clear_strategy

client.clear_strategy(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',   # user_id
    123                                       # account_id
)

• allocate

client.allocate(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8',    # user_id
    123,                                       # account_id
    {
        'isDynamic': False,
        'allocations': [
            { 'symbol': 'USDT', 'percent': '100' }
        ]
    }                                          # strategy
)

Limit Order Methods

• place_limit_order

place_limit_order_response = client.place_limit_order(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # account_id
    'BTC',                                  # base_symbol
    'ETH',                                  # quote_symbol
    '0.01',                                 # quantity of base_symbol
    '0.026',                                # price
    'SELL',                                 # side
    'IOC',                                  # time_in_force
)
limit_order_id = place_limit_order_response['id']

• get_limit_order_status

order = client.get_limit_order_status(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # account_id
    '8c2a9401-eb5b-48eb-9ae2-e9e02c174058'  # order_id
)

• list_open_orders

orders = client.list_open_orders(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123                                     # account_id
)

• cancel_limit_order

order = client.cancel_limit_order(
    '701e0d16-1e9e-42c9-b6a1-4cada1f395b8', # user_id
    123,                                    # account_id
    '8c2a9401-eb5b-48eb-9ae2-e9e02c174058'  # order_id
)

Analytics Methods

• get_backtest_assets

backtest_assets = client.get_backtest_assets(
    'kucoin' # exchange
)

• run_backtest

backtest_results = client.run_backtest(
    'binance',                                       # exchange
    10,                                              # rebalance_period in hours
    '0.1',                                           # fee in percent
    '2018-05-19T00:00:00.000Z',                      # start_time
    '2018-11-02T00:00:00.000Z',                      # end_time
    '5000',                                          # initial_value in USD
    [
        { 'symbol': "BTC", 'percent': '50' },
        { 'symbol': "ETH", 'percent': '50' }
    ]                                                # allocations
)

Insight Methods

• get_asset_dominance

asset_dominance = client.get_asset_dominance()

• get_asset_popularity

asset_popularity = client.get_asset_popularity()

Historical Methods

• get_historical_count

count = client.get_historical_count(
    'trade',
    'Bittrex',
    'LTC',
    'BTC',
    '2019-05-19T01:00:00.000Z',
    '2019-05-20T02:00:00.000Z'
)

• get_historical_instruments

instruments = client.get_historical_instruments()
bittrex_instruments = client.get_historical_instruments('Bittrex')

• get_historical_trades

trades = client.get_historical_trades(
    'Bittrex',
    'LTC',
    'BTC',
    '2019-05-19T00:00:00.000Z',
    '2019-05-20T00:00:00.000Z',
    100
)

• get_historical_orderbooks

orderbooks = client.get_historical_orderbooks(
    'Bittrex',
    'LTC',
    'BTC',
    '2019-05-19T00:00:00.000Z',
    '2019-05-20T00:00:00.000Z',
    100
)

• get_historical_candles

candles = client.get_historical_candles(
    'Bittrex',
    'LTC',
    'BTC',
    '2019-05-19T00:00:00.000Z',
    '2019-05-20T00:00:00.000Z',
    100,
    '1m'
)

Management Methods

• get_status

status = client.get_status()

• get_usage

usage = client.get_usage()

Websocket

Users can access the Shrimpy websocket feed using the ShrimpyWsClient class. A handler must be passed in on subscription that is responsible for processing incoming messages from the websocket stream. It is recommended that you simply send the message to another processing thread from your custom handler to prevent blocking the incoming message stream.

The client handles pings to the Shrimpy server based on the API Documentation

import shrimpy


public_key = '6d73c2464a71b94a81aa7b13d...'
private_key = 'e6238b0de3cdf19c7861f8e8f5d137ce7113ac1e884b191a14bbb2...'

# This is a sample handler, it simply prints the incoming message to the console
def error_handler(err):
    print(err)


# This is a sample handler, it simply prints the incoming message to the console
def handler(msg):
    print(msg)


api_client = shrimpy.ShrimpyApiClient(public_key, private_key)
raw_token = api_client.get_token()
client = shrimpy.ShrimpyWsClient(error_handler, raw_token['token'])

subscribe_data = {
    "type": "subscribe",
    "exchange": "coinbasepro",
    "pair": "ltc-btc",
    "channel": "orderbook"
}

# Start processing the Shrimpy websocket stream!
client.connect()
client.subscribe(subscribe_data, handler)

# Once complete, stop the client
client.disconnect()

Exchange: Binance.com Github: https://github.com/shrimpy-dev/shrimpy-python Docs: https://developers.shrimpy.io/docs

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