Repository contains one (1) Python wrapper for the Oanda REST v20 API implemented primarily as a proof of concept and secondarily as an educational medium to further my Python education.

• python 3.x (Documentation)

• json (Documentation)
• ssl (Documentation)
• smtplib (Documentation)
• MIMEMultipart of mail.mime.multipart (Documentation)
• MIMEText of email.mime.text (Documentation)

• requests (Documentation)
• websocket-client (Documentation)

1. Ensure Python 3 is installed, if not visit the download page.

2. Clone or download all files from this repository.

    $ git clone https://github.com/jgulickson/Oanda-REST-v20
   

3. Install requests package via:

    $ pip install requests
   

4. Install websocket-client package via:

    $ pip install websocket-client
   

Default configuration is included in file config-example.txt. Note that only a single parameter is applicable per line.

1. account-id
2. api-token
3. trading-hostname: must be either api-fxpractice.oanda.com or api-fxtrade.oanda.com
4. status-hostname: must be api-status.oanda.com
5. status-type: must be either fxtrade-practice-rest-api or fxtrade-rest-api
6. request-timeout-in-seconds: suggested default 5
7. email-sender: formatted as email@domain
8. email-recipient: formatted as email@domain
9. smtp-password
10. smtp-address
11. smtp-port: typically 443 or 587
12. datetime-format: must be RFC3339 or UNIX

101-001-xxxxxx-xxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
api-fxpractice.oanda.com
api-status.oanda.com
fxtrade-practice-rest-api
5
[email protected]
[email protected]
xxxxxxxxxxx
587
smtp.provider.com
RFC3339

1. Modify config-example.txt with the required information as described above.

2. Update the variable _CONFIG_FILENAME in file test-oanda.py as needed.

3. Navigate to the relevant directory and execute test-oanda.py.

    $ python test-oanda.py
   

4. Review the console log.

    $ python3 test-oanda.py
    get_config completed
    set_config completed
    validate_config completed
    get_account_summary completed
    set_account_summary completed
    validate_account_summary completed
    get_account_instruments completed
    set_account_instruments completed
    validate_account_instruments completed
    get_open_positions completed
    set_account_summary completed
    validate_open_positions completed
    get_pricing completed
    set_account_summary completed
    validate_pricing completed
    get_pricing completed
    set_account_summary completed
    get_account_instruments completed
    set_account_instruments completed
    set_bounds completed
    set_order_syntax completed
    post_order completed
    compose_email completed
    send_email completed
   

See Oanda's documentation for further potential use cases.

1. Improve validation logic across all validation functions.
2. Consider adding docstrings to relevant functions.
3. Consider supporting additional Oanda endpoints.

• Initial release