Unofficial Interactive Brokers API

Table of Contents

• Overview
• What's in the API
• Requirements
• Usage
• Documentation & Resources
• Support These Projects

Overview

The unofficial Python API client library for Interactive Broker Client Portal Web API allows individuals with Interactive Broker accounts to manage trades, pull historical and real-time data, manage their accounts, create and modify orders all using the Python programming language.

Interactive Broker offers multiple APIs for their clients. If you would like to learn more about their API offerings click on the links below:

• Trade Workstation API, please refer to the official documentation
• Client Portal API, please refer to the official documentation
• Third Party API, plesfe refer to the official documentation

Requirements

The following requirements must be met to use this API:

• A Interactive Broker account, you'll need your account password and account number to use the API.
• Java 8 update 192 or higher installed (gateway is compatible with higher Java versions including OpenJDK 11).
• Download the Beta Client Portal Gateway

Setup

**Setup - Requirements Install:***

For this particular project, you only need to install the dependencies, to use the project. The dependencies are listed in the requirements.txt file and can be installed by running the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

After running that command, the dependencies should be installed.

Setup - Local Install:

If you are planning to make modifications to this project or you would like to access it before it has been indexed on PyPi. I would recommend you either install this project in editable mode or do a local install. For those of you, who want to make modifications to this project. I would recommend you install the library in editable mode.

If you want to install the library in editable mode, make sure to run the setup.py file, so you can install any dependencies you may need. To run the setup.py file, run the following command in your terminal.

pip install -e .

If you don't plan to make any modifications to the project but still want to use it across your different projects, then do a local install.

pip install .

This will install all the dependencies listed in the setup.py file. Once done you can use the library wherever you want.

Documentation and Resources

• Getting Started
• Endpoints
• Websockets

Usage

Here is a simple example of using the ibc-api library.

from pprint import pprint
from configparser import ConfigParser
from ibc.client import InteractiveBrokersClient

# Initialize the Parser.
config = ConfigParser()

# Read the file.
config.read('config/config.ini')

# Get the specified credentials.
account_number = config.get('interactive_brokers_paper', 'paper_account')
account_password = config.get('interactive_brokers_paper', 'paper_password')

# Initialize the client.
ibc_client = InteractiveBrokersClient(
    account_number=account_number,
    password=account_password
)

# Grab the Auth Service.
auth_service = ibc_client.authentication

# Login
auth_service.login()

# check if we are authenticated.
pprint(
    auth_service.is_authenticated()
)

# Validate the current session.
pprint(
    auth_service.sso_validate()
)

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