Alpaca::Trade::Api

This is a high-level Ruby wrapper for Alpaca trading API. This implementation only supports the Web API v2 API, there is no plan to support Web API v1.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alpaca-trade-api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install alpaca-trade-api

Usage

Configuration

By default, the library is configured to use the Paper Trading host - https://paper-api.alpaca.markets - as the endpoint it connects to, and loads both the key id and secret key from the following environment variables: ALPACA_API_KEY_ID and ALPACA_API_SECRET_KEY. To configure the library differently:

Alpaca::Trade::Api.configure do |config|
  config.endpoint = 'https://api.alpaca.markets'
  config.key_id = 'A_KEY_ID'
  config.key_secret = 'A_S3CRET'
end

Example

Here's an example on how to use the library to read details of an account's orders in paper trading.

require 'alpaca/trade/api'

Alpaca::Trade::Api.configure do |config|
  config.endpoint = 'https://paper-api.alpaca.markets'
  config.key_id = 'xxxxxxxx'
  config.key_secret = 'xxxxx'
end

client =  Alpaca::Trade::Api::Client.new
puts client.orders.last.inspect

Supported endpoints

Here's a table with all currently supported endpoints in this library:

Object	Action	Method
Account	[GET] Get the account	Client#account
Account Activities	[GET] Get a list of account activities	Client#account_activities(activity_type:)
Orders	[GET] Get a list of orders	Client#orders
	[POST] Request a new order	Client#new_order
	[GET] Get an order	Client#order(id:)
	[GET] Get an order by client order id	Client#order(id:)
	[PATCH] Replace an order	Client#replace_order
	[DELETE] Cancel all orders	Client#cancel_orders
	[DELETE] Cancel an order	Client#cancel_order(id:)
Positions	[GET] Get open positions	Client#positions
	[GET] Get an open position	Client#position(symbol:)
	[DELETE] Close all positions	Client#close_positions
	[DELETE] Close a position	Client#close_position(symbol:)
Assets	[GET] Get assets	Client#assets
	[GET] Get assets/:id	Client#asset(symbol:)
	[GET] Get an asset	Client#asset(symbol:)
Calendar	[GET] Get the calendar	Client#calendar(start_date:, end_date:)
Clock	[GET] Get the clock	Client#clock
Bars	[GET] Get a list of bars	Client#bars(timeframe, symbols, limit:)

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ccjr/alpaca-trade-api.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.