Working with web APIs

[bart]

Hey guys,

I’m using LB to trade crypto-currencies and currently have it fetching API data from some exchanges, parsing, crunching numbers and then sending buy and sell orders through Zignaly using their API. They permit GET for sending these orders, which makes it relatively easy to construct the URL for the orders and trigger them using httpget$. So far, so good.

But to send orders direct to other exchanges, or in particular at the moment shrimpy.io, it’s not so simple. They require POST, json, sha256 HMAC signatures etc etc – totally bamboozling me. Is this something that will be do-able with LB?

[Chris Iverson]

It would need quite a bit of DLL/Win32 API assistance, but I think it could be done. Depending on the APIs you're interacting with, it could be a significant undertaking.

[bart]

Yes, I fear it could be a tough nut to crack. I wonder if a work-around using something like python might be an easier solution? Trouble is I think I'm getting too old to start learning new programming languages...