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Hi i am trying to learn how to use the mtgox api but am struggling with some things.

I have managed to make some basic api calls, but am unsure how to pass parameters when it is necessary.


for example to submit an order the wiki says:

###
Submit an order

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/private/order/add

parameters:

    type (bid|ask) (easier to remember: bid == buy, ask == sell)
    amount_int <amount as int>
    price_int <price as int> (can be omitted to place market order)

submits an order and returns the OID and info about success or error
###


I tried:

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/private/order/add?type=ask?amount_int=100000000?price_int=2500000

But im just getting error:

"Invalid parameter "type" (should be ask or bid)"


(Also in INT is 100000000 = 1BTC?)

I don't personally have much experience with the mtgox api however I do see that your url's are wrong. Rather than ?'s between parameters you must use an &

As such:

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/private/order/add?type=ask&amount_int=100000000&price_int=2500000

OK thanks. I figured i'd have some of the syntax wrong.

It's frustrating that there's so little information available, and the wiki gives details but no examples of how to pass multiple variables. I can learn but i need examples!  ;D

I'm still getting the error, maybe i will post to dev forum, i thought it was too basic tbh.

that's, funny. I'm having the exact same problem right now. let me know if you get anywhere with it.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API/HTTP

OK i figured out how to do it, someone should update the wiki




I'm using php so a market order for .v1 would be the same as the example shown here (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API/HTTP) except instead of:

var_dump(mtgox_query('0/buyBTC.php', array('amount' => 1, 'price' => 15)));

it would be something like

var_dump(mtgox_query('1/BTCUSD/private/order/add', array('type' => 'bid', 'amount_int' => 100000000, "price_int" => 1500000) ) );

I'm using java. What does the actual final url look like?

Hi,

I'm trying to extract the amount of cash I have in my wallet and put it into a variable.

I'm using :

Which captures information, but I can't for the life of me work out how to separate the resulting arrays into variables. Can anyone help?

i.e. I want:

to become:

Can anyone educate me???

The main problem that i'm having is that there are multiple arrays embedded, and so I can't find any useful php code examples online.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nested+array+php

this is best for me: http://www.mediafire.com/?rtn3yepl5lxtnvx

Shoot me a PM and I will send you some of my code that I use.  I am at work right now and therefore do not have access to my code.

I currently have 14 bots running that trade bitcoin based on different parameters.  So I do have quite a bit of experience with this.

I would be happy to walk you through it.

Is there a really simple "excel" - style api handling program, or is it all raw C or Python or what is everybody doing to do this?

Where do I get started with an easy API programing BOT creation tool?

I am also having a problem trying to pass my parameters as such

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/private/order/add?type=ask&amount_int=100000000&price_int=2500000

I am using python, does anyone know what the solution here is?

Thanks

I have a question, is there anyway to have a bot send out a notification when the EMA lines cross? I'm sure you guys are initiating buys and sells via EMA (maybe not) but if you are, could you just have it send a notification without trading at all? I know you spend a lot of time and effort in your code but if someone has this functionality, I would greatly appreciate it. You can even delete all the rest of the code, I would just want to be notified when the EMA lines cross. Thanks.

+1

yup! RTFM!

Geeze, whats the point of having a "newbie" forum...  There is a lot of documentation to go through and it takes those of us with smaller programming vocabularies a lot to get through it all. I solved my problem, so for anyone else having the same issue I read the "FM"...

here is some good background on the request module and has a specific section on passing parameter in a url with a keyword argument.  You then need to urlencode your parameters.
 
http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html

hi everyone. sorry for poor english. i'm trying to move to 1st API vers. our clien(Java). when i'm trying to submint an order with params
type - bid
amount_int - 10000000
price_int - 2500000000
server returns "" string
how i can see magicnumber thats server uses to divide by amount and price is 10^6 (i tryed 10^4 too - in result was "too low amount")
can u help?