Tastyworks API
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DaveN
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Ahh, good grief. My bad, and completely off topic below.
I gave up on the TW API and moved on. I had high hopes... I think it was three years ago when they told me one was coming, imminent, took my info, then wouldn't respond to any queries about status or progress.
I saw in a Reddit forum (edit: sorry, I guess that was in the TDA-API Discord server) that SCHW is building out a new, improved version of the TDA API. No timelines on progress though. I'm not sure yet if I'm happy, cautious, or frightened. No matter which one, I expect that I'll have to do a lot of Python code changes....
I gave up on the TW API and moved on. I had high hopes... I think it was three years ago when they told me one was coming, imminent, took my info, then wouldn't respond to any queries about status or progress.
I saw in a Reddit forum (edit: sorry, I guess that was in the TDA-API Discord server) that SCHW is building out a new, improved version of the TDA API. No timelines on progress though. I'm not sure yet if I'm happy, cautious, or frightened. No matter which one, I expect that I'll have to do a lot of Python code changes....
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Progress! Stumbled about this yesterday, I believe this is quite new:
https://support.tastyworks.com/support/solutions/articles/43000700385-tastytrade-open-api
Apart from the API spec, they also have a Javascript SDK. The API terms and conditions contain some, ah, "interesting" requirements on the client side.
what interesting requirements are you referring to? i read it quickly and it seemed fairly standard for
an api. maybe i missed something.
i think the official tastrtrade api release was monday. their api is fairly straight-forward but it doesn't allow
a web client-only solution. they enforce the cross-origin (CORS) restriction so you have to use server-side code
to access their endpoints. another downside is that the tastytrade endpoints don't provide market data. you have to
use another api, dxfeed, for market data and apparently only through streaming data. dxfeed provides a javascript api, but it's node.js, which i have yet to get working. it's good to have another api to use, but it's not what i was
hoping for.
One, I have to keep complete records of API usage and data to demonstrate my compliance at their request. Two, they reserve the right to enter my premises and do an audit of my usage of their API. I stopped reading at that point.
"Rrrring, Good Morning Sir, we're from Tastytrade and we'd like to audit your PCs today. Would you pass the keyboard, please? Password? Thank you. Coffee and some cookies would be nice."
Er what!? No way...I know this won't happen. They know it. Yet some legal birdbrain insists on putting in stuff like that. Maybe this IS fairly standard and I am the nitpick who takes terms&conditions to the letter...