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Bitcoin Central now features a full fledged API that allows any user action to be fully and securely automated using XML or JSON posted data.

Authentication is possible using the user and password passed as parameters or a timestamped token.

Wow this sounds pretty cool.  Does that mean that we'll be able to implement our own tradebots?

Where is the doc?

Right now there's absolutely none, feel free to edit the github wiki.
Questions welcome

Spoken like a true coder lol

Hi Davout,

is the API still working or did you shut it down? Was searchin for the commands but couldn't find it.

Depends on which parts :)

Especially the orderbook part :) (i.e. read orderbook in currency x)
If it's possible to place, view, and cancel orders that would also be interesting, of course.

Is it possible to get orderbook/market depth?

You can get the full orderbook here :

In HTML

In XML

In JSON

LRUSD orders in JSON

BC is RESTful by design and supports HTTP basic auth. meaning that you can pretty much do whatever you want and pass parameters as a form, in JSON or XML, hasn't been really tested in the wild, so I'll be happy to get bug reports :)

Responses to GET requests usually only support HTML default format, but if you need a JSON/XML response just drop me a line.

Great, thanks! Gonna test that tomorrow! I guess adding orders via API is not possible, though, right?

Cheers,

sonba

You should be able to, just post something like
to
with HTTP auth it should just work.

If it doesn't it's a bug and will get the fix it deserves :)

The API part is mostly untested, so don't hesitate to drop me a line if you have problems.

It's a little offtopic, but

1) how do I add bitcoins to my account at bitcoin-central so I can trade? Should I send BTC to the address I see in the top right corner?
2) Is it possible to add LRUSD to my account at bitcoin-central? Or the only way is to trade bitcoins?

These things must be documented.

Yes

Yes, go to your account balances and then click "Deposit funds"

Yes, there will be a nice UI facelift by end July, this issue will be addressed.

Hi Davout,

brief question: https://bitcoin-central.net/account/trade_orders/book.json only returns me an error "HTTP 404 - The requested resource could not be found" - any clue what happened there?

Thanks :)

+1

That would be https://bitcoin-central.net/order_book.json

The doc for the new Bitcoin Central API is here:
https://github.com/Paymium/api-documentation (https://github.com/Paymium/api-documentation)

This new version is deployed as of October 2013.
Thanks to Dave and Stephan!

"Like" Will lokk at during the Week-end, thanks