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Questions tagged [etrade-api]
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How do I use OAuth to connect to the Etrade API?
E-Trade released their API recently and provided technical documentation which is somewhat useful but not complete.
Does anyone have a fully working example in C# that shows how this works?
I have been able to do the authentication using OAuth…
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Maher
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Getting an oauth request token from etrade in Python
I'm trying to get an oauth request token from the etrade api (sandbox) in Python with this thing:
import requests
from oauthlib.oauth1 import Client
consumer_key = 'foo' # actual key used
consumer_secret = 'bar' # actual secret…
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ethann
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How to generate oauth1 signature for access token in javascript?
I am one the final piece of an etrade oauth integration- (i.e. sending the GET request for access token.) This oauth is taking place in the meteor.js environment so all code is written in javascript.
Currently I am getting a 401 error -…
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Alex P
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Configuring ETrade PHP API OAuth
I'm trying to set up the ETrade PHP API...
In the sandbox configuration I set my ETWS_APP_KEY and ETWS_APP_SECRET with the keys ETrade Provided.
What do I set for the OAUTH information shown below? I'm confused.. do I leave these blank or where do I…
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cpcdev
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Warning: fgets() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in
I am somewhat new to php, but I do understand some of the key concepts of it, however nothing about STDIN, what it is and why I am getting this error.
I am developing with the eTrade API PHP SDK and the development community over there seems to be a…
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Bruce
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ETrade API unattended authentication
Background
The ETrade authentication system has me creating a RequestToken, then executing an Authorization URL, which opens an ETrade page.
The user logs in to authorize the activity on their account.
They receive a pin, which they enter in my…
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BWhite
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E*Trade API Streaming with CometD
I have been using a .net library to create an oauth session, and submit, modify and cancel orders using the ETRADE api. Now I need to listen for account & order events. As per the ETRADE API documentation, they use CometD & long poling. I did find a…
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Jimmy
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Why is the Etrade API returning a missing parameters error?
I have successively obtained a request token, and am now using it in conjunction with my consumer key to create the following request
https://us.etrade.com/e/etws/authorize?key=2fc*******c323d6&token=IIrs6BsIrGQ********duC60GAmLq8
where the…
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almel
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What is wrong with my ETrade OAuth get token request?
The server is responding with a less than helpful message.
Unable to get a request token: Request for…
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Chloe
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quote query fails in eTrade api
I am getting protocol error on following url for quote query. What is wrong here in the url?
*/market/rest/quote/GOOG:2012:2:18:CALL:400?detailFlag=OPTIONS
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thx.
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kuhajeyan
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E*Trade API frequently returns HTTP 401 Unauthorized when fetching an access token but not always
Summary
I have written a simple C# .NET Core application to authenticate against the E*Trade API using OAuthv1 with the intention of fetching stock quotes. I am able to authenticate and get a request token, redirect to the authorization page and…
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CAS
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headers and oauth in get_quote for E*Trade API using Python3
After authorizing my application, I request an access token by passing the oauth credentials through the header. The signature and headers are generated through this code;
API_module = 'oauth'
API_RESTful = 'access_token'
if renewal:
API_RESTful…
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generating oauth_signature for ETrade API using Python
The E*Trade API allows you to use RESTful to log on to the site and manipulate an account or retrieve quote information. Though I am having trouble generating an oauth_signature that matches their "practice problem" located toward the bottom of…
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jsfa11
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Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to etws.etrade.com:443
I am trying to connect to the eTrade API which uses OAuth. I am trying to request a token.
The domain I am trying to connect with has an SSL certificate.
The connection uses TLS 1.2. The connection is encrypted and authenticated using AES_128_GCM…
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Bruce
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Trying to connect to E*Trade via Powershell
I'm trying to connect to the E*Trade API - https://developer.etrade.com/getting-started/developer-guides
So for my header I have
$global:header = @{
"Content-Type"="application/json"
"name"="etrade"
"Authorization:…