Tulpenmanie, an exchange client

[Emery]

Are you tired of in-browser trading? Garish graphic designs got your inter-pipes clogged with cookies? Should you hit refresh or wait for that trade page to load? Is hand formating API calls because you lost your yubikey becoming tedious?

Then for you I present tulpenmanie, a multi-market exchange client: https://github.com/3M3RY/tulpenmanie
https://i.minus.com/idA9mesgKENwI.png
It displays tickers, makes limit and market orders, cancels orders, and can initiate bitcoin transfers between exchanges.

Right now I'm working on supporting streaming exchange APIs which looks like I'll be overhauling the exchange module system. I get that done and I can move on to things like charts and depth tables.

Supported exchanges:

• Bitstamp
• BTC-e
• CambBX
• MtGox

I'll be adding more, queued by volume.

Requires Python-2.7 and PyQt4.
Unless you're on Gentoo it's manual install only for now.
Gentoo install instructions

Code:

USE="git" emerge -u layman && layman -a bitcoin && emerge -av tulpenmanie

I've got it to run on windows, and I plan to make an installer. Please be patient, I don't have a windows install anywhere. Rest assured that I am making every effort to maintain cross-platform compatibility. First I need to stabilize what I have before I can deal with OS's that I never use.

Getting it to work on pre-intel OSx is almost impossible. As for later versions I don't know.

Consider it in beta for now.
If there are questions or problems I lurk in the #bitcoin channel when I can, nick EM3RY.
If it seems like there questions below that are answered above, it is because I previously didn't address those questions in this message and have made an edit.

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[bitcoinspot.nl]

probably a noob question, but i will ask anyway

does this run on windows?

roland.

[Emery]

does this run on windows?

It should be fully cross-platform but I have not tested it on windows or OSX yet. I don't know what is involved in getting it running on windows but I plan on looking into it.

I should note that passwords and API key/secrets are stored plaintext, so keep that in mind if you run one of those crappy backdoored OSes or don't encrypt to disk.

[eja]

I tried but I don't seem to get it too work completely.. I added my BTC-e api keys and on the console I can see it fetching ticker data from btc and mtgox (or at least trying to). But I don't see them on the market screen. Am I missing something ?

+1 for the name though

[paraipan]

I get this error when trying to run it:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tulpenmanie", line 5, in <module>
    import tulpenmanie.manager
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/manager.py", line 20, in <module>
    from tulpenmanie.model.commodity import CommoditiesModel
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/model/commodity.py", line 20, in <module>
    from tulpenmanie.model.base import FlatSettingsModel
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/model/base.py", line 19, in <module>
    from PyQt4 import QtCore, QtGui, QtSql
ImportError: cannot import name QtSql

[eja]

You probably need to install python-qt4-sql package.

[paraipan]

You probably need to install python-qt4-sql package.

Thanks dude, that was the issue

Edit: Now i'm all set-up but after closing the app and trying to open again it gives this in the console:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/tulpenmanie", line 8, in <module>
    manager = tulpenmanie.manager.Manager(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/manager.py", line 56, in __init__
    self.window = MainWindow()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/ui/mainwindow.py", line 50, in __init__
    self.parse_models()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/ui/mainwindow.py", line 110, in parse_models
    dock)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/ui/exchange.py", line 146, in __init__
    widget = tulpenmanie.ui.widget.CommodityLcdWidget(self.counter_row)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/tulpenmanie/ui/widget.py", line 52, in __init__
    self.precision = int(model.item(commodity_row, model.PRECISION).text())
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

[Emery]

You probably need to install python-qt4-sql package.

Thanks dude, that was the issue

Edit: Now i'm all set-up but after closing the app and trying to open again it gives this in the console:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

That extraneous QtSql dependency has been removed, and that precision problem is fixed. Pull from git and reinstall and that should fix it.

I tried but I don't seem to get it too work completely.. I added my BTC-e api keys and on the console I can see it fetching ticker data from btc and mtgox (or at least trying to). But I don't see them on the market screen. Am I missing something ?

You will have to enable the market, the exchange, and the account from the two settings dialogs and then restart the program, I'm working on having the settings change the display dynamically right now.

[paraipan]

You probably need to install python-qt4-sql package.

Thanks dude, that was the issue

Edit: Now i'm all set-up but after closing the app and trying to open again it gives this in the console:

Code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 ...
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

That extraneous QtSql dependency has been removed, and that precision problem is fixed. Pull from git and reinstall and that should fix it.

...

Now we're talking, yeah 

Edit: Another issue here. I have the mtgox api key entered but what is "secret" for? I think it has something to do with it because I don't get updates and the console gives me this:

Code:

RROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed
DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed
DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed
DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed
DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed
DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed

[Emery]

I have the mtgox api key entered but what is "secret" for? I think it has something to do with it because I don't get updates and the console gives me this:

Code:

DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed

MtGox API authentication uses a key and secret, the key identifies you, and the secret is for signing requests. You only see the secret when you create the key/secret pair, so you'll probably need to create a new pair.

As for the SSL handshake error, I would think that would only happen if MtGox's SSL certificate couldn't be verified.

[paraipan]

I have the mtgox api key entered but what is "secret" for? I think it has something to do with it because I don't get updates and the console gives me this:

Code:

DEBUG:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:POSTing to https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/ticker
ERROR:tulpenmanie.provider_modules.mtgox:SSL handshake failed

MtGox API authentication uses a key and secret, the key identifies you, and the secret is for signing requests. You only see the secret when you create the key/secret pair, so you'll probably need to create a new pair.

As for the SSL handshake error, I would think that would only happen if MtGox's SSL certificate couldn't be verified.

Got it, thanks, hope it works right today 

[armodar]

I would REALLY like to know how to install this on windows...

[Akka]

Me too. Seems really cool. But I don't get it to work in windows.

But I'm probaply just to much of a non geek. Getting P2Pool to work was the only Python thing I did so far and that did me take hours.

[Deafboy]

Are you going to implement some simple rules (if price higher than X, sell.. etc.) or at least possibility to create bots as plugins? Btw. dividing app to server/client part would be awesome.
My first speculation profit is going to your donation address anyway... thanks.

[Emery]

Are you going to implement some simple rules (if price higher than X, sell.. etc.) or at least possibility to create bots as plugins? Btw. dividing app to server/client part would be awesome.

I think it'd be cool to have a little interpreter and a set of predefined variables and functions to implement stop-loss and bot logic, which could be stored as scripts. That is easier said than done but I'm working on charting for now which should any statistical analysis readily available.

[gweedo]

anyone try this on mac OSX 10.8?

[unclescrooge]

You're the man Emery, I'm gonna try this now

[davout]

anyone try this on mac OSX 10.8?

I stopped right at sudo

[HDSolar]

This is cool, keep it up and a windows deployment would be sweet.

[unclescrooge]

What is the unit for refresh rate of the exchanges settings?

Also, I tried to look at the source code and did not find nothing "suspicious" (sorry Emery but I won't set secret/api access in unknown software without checking it first). But I'm not a programmer so if anyone want to cross check...