Python/Java/etc API

[Goatseer]

Hi,

I want to be able to automatically download and export the data each day. There doesn't seem to be a way to programmatically do this at the moment. Is it planned?

Thanks

[tickstory]

Hi Goatseer,

Yes, this feature is planned. If you have some particular requirements around this (such as protocol), please let us know. At the moment we're looking at JSON with a RESTful-like API.

Regards.

[kriskraai]

Has tickstory made an API feature available yet?

[tickstory]

Hi,

Not as of v1.8.9.2. We still have this in our book of work, however we prioritise based on the demand for a particular feature, so if others are interested, please let us know.

Thanks.

[kriskraai]

Maybe you could charge for it. If the price is reasonable, I'm sure many people would be interested.

[jdaniele]

Hi,

I want to be able to automatically download and export the data each day. There doesn't seem to be a way to programmatically do this at the moment. Is it planned?

Thanks

Hi Goatseer,

it should be fairly easy.

1) Write a loop that every day download URLs like this "http://datafeed.dukascopy.com/datafeed/ ... _ticks.bi5" and save the daily files to disk in a proper structure like Tickstory already do.

2) Open the 24 files of the day, decompress and read binary data from them (have a look here viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1233&p=10644&hilit= ... da0#p10644 about data format), putting it in a list of records.

3) Once you have data in a list, you can export it as you want, in CSV for example.

4) repeat the process for every financial instrument you need to download and export.

I would choose Python to do that, in few lines of code.

Hope this helps.
Daniele