Need Information for API

Hi.

I have subscribed to websocket API, but I would prefer to use HTTP REST API if its available. In this thread I see such an API was launched 2 years ago. Is it discontinued now ?

Thanks

No, the HTTP API is not discontinued.

All documents of the same are also available in this thread.

After you are sure as to what you wish to pursue, send us a detailed email / raise a ticket.

Thanks Aditya. I wish to pursue websocket only, because it is supposed to be faster than HTTP API. But I am worried because, I have been seeing issues in websocket. Very often it disconnects. As of writing this response, I am getting the error -> ....\websocket\_http.py", line 176, in _open_socket

sock.connect(address)

ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

Hence inquiring about the alternative. If it is more reliable and stable than websocket, I would consider using it instead of websocket.

Thanks

Please note that disconnections could happen due to the following:-

1. Maintenance at our end. Generally on weekends or early in the morning. We are working out exact timings to streamline this and this would soon be finalised
2. If the streams buffer for you on the server side becomes full, the server will disconnect you. You need to ensure that the streaming feed continues to flow unhampered on one thread and all your calculations etc, are done on separate threads without affecting the main streaming data thread.

Also please confirm the following to help you further:-

1. Are you connecting to the feed on your local PC or is it a server/ VPS
2. After how many historical requests or after how much time approximately are you getting disconnected

Hi Aditya,

I'm facing the same error while I connect now:

"ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it"

I'm assuming it's because the service might be down for maintenance. As backtesting can work even on weekends, can I request you to move the down time to odd hours, even in the weekends(atleast for the historical APIs) as this is the time which I would spend my considerable amount of time for backtesting.

Thanks

We have working on reducing the maintenance stoppages over the weekend which are now taking effect.

With the REST (Historical API) Upgrade the downtime for history maintenance during weekends has been reduced manifold.