Information sources for trading bots -- apis, scraping, etc.

[LimLims]

What sources of information would be useful to a trading bot on BTC-e? The ticker API seems a bit limited in terms of the information it supplies. Are there other more detailed tickers available? Has anyone put together code to scrape the BTC-e pages?

[guitar82]

I have been wondering too. Google did didn't give me anything. I would imagine it won't be free.

Edit I didn't read very well. I thought you were trying to find a ready made bot.

[maurycy]

What sources of information would be useful to a trading bot on BTC-e? The ticker API seems a bit limited in terms of the information it supplies. Are there other more detailed tickers available? Has anyone put together code to scrape the BTC-e pages?

Do you need BTC-e exactly?

Bitstamp provides a pretty easy to use API:
- https://www.bitstamp.net/api/

You can also use it for historical data, using the transactions query with a large enough timedelta, although it's obviously limited only to Bitstamp.

MtGox does the same:
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/MtGox/API

[theonlyfox]

LimLims, I would think that most people hold that information close to the vest.   There are some simple API's and Bots out there but they are very limited.  One can be found at https://github.com/alanmcintyre/btce-api... It looks safe enough but Im no programmer so I couldn't tell you if it had something hidden in it.   My partner is the programmer in our group and yes... we don't just rely on the API.