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Hi!
Thank you for providing a wonder environment to investigate the wonderful world of market data.
I run on Linux and would like to use the REST external API so I can edit in emacs, and such. My first test has been unsuccessful and I'm betting someone else spot the problem. I looked at jorgemanbia ruby implemention and tried to do the same thing.. It didn't work.. lol
import reqests, hashlib, time
authTok = "string from my accounts page"
user = 12345 # number from by accounts page
hasher = hashlib.sha256()
hasher.update(authTok)
ts = int(time.time())
authStr = hasher.hexdigest()
payload = {"Timestamp" : ts}
resp = requests.get("https://www.quantconnect.com/api/v2/projects/read", auth = (user, authTok), params = payload)
print resp.status_code
print resp.text
#################
when run, the printing the resp.text gives the following string
{"errors":["Hash doesn't match. UID: 123455 Hash: the string from hexdigest Timestamp: ''"],"success":false}
Any clues, pointers, help?
Thanks, Bill Bitner
Alexandre Catarino
Bill Bitner, we have a C# API that can be used with pythonnet to create a Python REST API.
Bill Bitner
Thanks Alexandre Catarino for your time and reply. By looking at the C# API, I was able to spot the errors in my code. Here is the code snippet to read projects list via the rest API
#!/usr/bin/env python import hashlib import time import requests from requests_toolbelt.utils import dump authTok = "The hex digit string from the accounts page" user = 12345 # my userId from the accounts page hasher = hashlib.sha256() ts = int(time.time()) authStr = "%s:%d"%(authTok, ts) # this is in the API hasher.update(authStr) authHexDigest = hasher.hexdigest() print authHexDigest head = {"Content-type": "application/json", "Timestamp" : "%d"%(ts)} # Timestamp must be in the header too! resp = requests.get("https://www.quantconnect.com/api/v2/projects/read", auth = (user, authHexDigest), headers = head, params = {}) data = dump.dump_all(resp) print(data.decode('utf-8'))Thanks again!!
Bill Bitner
Bill Bitner
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