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It help a lot. I understand the content
We’re glad to hear that, Vusumuzi.
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This was helpful and insightful to me
Thank you, Mohamed. We are glad you found the content helpful! Be sure to check out other lessons on IBKR Campus.
I’m a rookie on this things. I hope I’ll come alright.
Hello Walter, thank you for reaching out. Feel free to review the IBKR Campus. Here you can learn about trading, financial markets and Interactive Brokers trading tools. This could be a great resource for you!
https://ibkrcampus.com/
Please reach back out if you have more questions. We are here to help!
The strikes endpoint does not return call and put values
Running the following code:
base_url = “https://localhost:5001/v1/api/”
endpoint = “iserver/secdef/strikes”
conid = “conid=44652000”
# conid = “conid=669788897”
secType = “secType=OPT”
month = “month=JAN24”
exchange = “exchange=NSE”
params = “&”.join([conid, secType, month, exchange])
request_url = “”.join([base_url, endpoint, “?”, params])
strikes_req = requests.get(url=request_url, verify=False)
print(strikes_req)
Returns:
{‘call’: [], ‘put’: []}
For the conid I tried passing the underlying conid(44652000) as well as the options(669788897) conid but I got empty response for both.
And on trying exchange as HK.NSE, I get a server error 503.
Hello, thank you for reaching out. Calls to the /iserver/secdef/strikes endpoints requires that users first call the /iserver/secdef/search endpoint for the underlying beforehand. This process is explained further in lesson 3, Contract Search, available here: https://ibkrcampus.com/trading-lessons/contract-search/ We hope this helps!
Might be nice to mention that you can not place orders against a Lite account.
Hello Tom, we appreciate your feedback. At this time, APIs are not available for IBKR Lite accounts. Please view the link below to determine which plan is best for you:
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=45500
We hope this helps.
Is it possible to test the APIs on the client portal? Could you please provide the URL? Specifically looking to try out order APIs.
Hello, thank you for reaching out. Please view this link to download Client Portal API: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/trading/ib-api.php. We hope this helps!
Hi, do you have a regular REST API available without a gateway? That is, I would like to connect to your server, authenticate and perform requests – regular REST, without installing Java, gateways and similar. I assume this gateway connects somewhere anyway – is that endpoint publicly available? If not, is there some other API that can be used without installing additional software locally? (mainly interested in easier account management and asset monitoring, not placing trades). Thank you!
Hello, thank you for reaching out. Customers affiliated with an Institution can sign up for OAuth access with the REST API. While the endpoints are identical for both systems, the two differ in the authentication method of access tokens or the gateway. You can read more about this in our OAuth documentation on IBKR Campus.
For individuals unaffiliated with an organization, users would need to use either the Trader Workstation API or Client Portal API for real-time position updates. If you are planning to calculate positions locally, and simply need to verify data at market open or close, you may be interested in the Flex Web Service, which utilizes our Flex Queries from the Client Portal as web requests. You can read more in our Flex Web Service documentation. If this does not answer your question, please create a web ticket for this inquiry; we have a category specifically for “API.” One of our API experts will be happy to guide you! https://ndcdyn.interactivebrokers.com/AccountManagement/AmAuthentication?loginType=1&action=CS_WEB_TICKET&loginType=1
Hello, thank you for your response! Since I don’t want to install anything locally, I have in the end decided to work with CSV exports instead and just parse data from there. It’s not auomatic, unfortunately, but will suffice for my use case. Thank you!
Hello, I have a question i am trying to write named httpclient in c# but for all Session endpoints request i got 403 response even if i disable certificate validation in httphandler. (This question is not related to named client but generally to HttpClient). Now i really don’t know i can login i can send 200 request through Postman/Insomnia also in python but i can’t do that in .Net. Do you have any recommendation for .Net setup? I read that i should provide UserAgent header but even if i do it doesn’t solve issue. I really cannot find anything useful on web only python but i would like to avoid using python since most of other project libs are c# and c++ and using python would bring other issues later on in project. Thanks a lot
Hello, we appreciate your question. The cause of this error can vary. Given the 403 error, it could be connected to the request causing the issue. We recommend creating a web ticket for this inquiry; we have a category specifically for “API.” One of our API experts will be happy to guide you! https://www.interactivebrokers.com/sso/resolver?action=NEW_TICKET
Does graphQL is required for creating this APIs for the client portal API??
Hello Aritrya, the Client Portal API does not require GraphQL. Please reach back out with any more questions. We are here to help!