[BETA] MTGox websocket API, testers wanted

[Ente]

Is it possible to query my open trades and/or cancel an order or at least all orders? With the websocket API, that is?
Didnt see any hint that this is possible..

But then I dont remember to have ever seen the commands to post orders via websocket neither?

Is the websocket for "reading" only, like making graphs from the data?

edit:
So, get data from the websocket, and exectue/cancel orders via "API version 1" then?

Ente

[rwcp97]

Is it possible to query my open trades and/or cancel an order or at least all orders? With the websocket API, that is?
Didnt see any hint that this is possible..

But then I dont remember to have ever seen the commands to post orders via websocket neither?

Is the websocket for "reading" only, like making graphs from the data?

edit:
So, get data from the websocket, and exectue/cancel orders via "API version 1" then?

Ente

As far as I know there is no possibility to do orders over the websocket... Would be pretty dangerous too, as it isn't SSL encrypted.
But you can subscribe to your "private channel" to be informed about your orders. Use getKey.php to get its name.

[Fireball]

As far as I know there is no possibility to do orders over the websocket... Would be pretty dangerous too, as it isn't SSL encrypted.
But you can subscribe to your "private channel" to be informed about your orders. Use getKey.php to get its name.

socket.io supports secure connections (https, wss transports). That's what I use in ICBIT trading platform, so I would be quite surprised if that's dangerous

[rwcp97]

socket.io supports secure connections (https, wss transports). That's what I use in ICBIT trading platform, so I would be quite surprised if that's dangerous

ok, I wasn't aware of that - I just connect to websocket.mtgox.com at port 80.

[Ente]

Thank you for the hints, rwcp and Fireball!

Ente

[osmosis]

 #> python socketio.py
it should dump the messages to stdout

Thanks molecular.

[is4tomj]

I'm using the streaming feed on my website.  If anyone needs a working example feel free to take a look. (http://BitcoinTitan.com)

[molecular]

Let me say here that the socket.io/websocket feed has been rather stable in late times. I'm hoping this has nothing to do with the fact that trading volume is declining, but is due to Magicaltux making things better. In that case: thanks, Magicaltux and/or mtgox team.

[piotr_n]

I don't know guys how you can be using this new socket.io via the websocket interface...

I get my ID nicely from https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/1/ but then after I connect my websocket lib to ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/XXXXX - it just sends me "7:::1+0" and disconnects immediately after that.

Am I the only one who has this problem?

[osmosis]

I don't know guys how you can be using this new socket.io via the websocket interface...

I get my ID nicely from https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/1/ but then after I connect my websocket lib to ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/XXXXX - it just sends me "7:::1+0" and disconnects immediately after that.

Am I the only one who has this problem?

Works for me. Sounds like an issue on your side.

[piotr_n]

I don't know guys how you can be using this new socket.io via the websocket interface...

I get my ID nicely from https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/1/ but then after I connect my websocket lib to ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/XXXXX - it just sends me "7:::1+0" and disconnects immediately after that.

Am I the only one who has this problem?

Works for me. Sounds like an issue on your side.

But which language / websocket library do you use?

I tried with latest Chrome and this extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfdhoblngboilpfeibdedpjgfnlcodoo
.... and also tried with websocket package from Go - and they both disconnect me immediately after sending "7:::1+0"

[piotr_n]

Or just try this page: http://websocket.org/echo.html
... using i.e.  ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/14001291971574386363
and tell me that I'm crazy

[zelyony]

I get my ID nicely from https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/1/ but then after I connect my websocket lib to ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/XXXXX - it just sends me "7:::1+0" and disconnects immediately after that.

If u got ID from https:// than u must connect to wss:// with this ID (SSL/TLS - secure connection)
and if http:// than ws://

[piotr_n]

I get my ID nicely from https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/1/ but then after I connect my websocket lib to ws://socketio.mtgox.com:80/socket.io/1/websocket/XXXXX - it just sends me "7:::1+0" and disconnects immediately after that.

If u got ID from https:// than u must connect to wss:// with this ID (SSL/TLS - secure connection)
and if http:// than ws://

shit man.
thank you!!!
that was indeed the problem.

[osmosis]

 #> python socketio.py
it should dump the messages to stdout

Thanks molecular.

For the websocket in python, anyone find a way to deal with the disconnect errors?

File "/home/osmosis/proj_venv/proj_proj/websocket_client.py", line 161, in recv
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:1325: error:14095044:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_N:internal error
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:1325: error:1408F119:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:decryption failed or bad record mac
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:1325: error:1408F096:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:encrypted length too long
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:1325: error:1408F10B:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong version number
SSLError: [Errno 8] _ssl.c:1325: EOF occurred in violation of protocol
ConnectionClosedException

[Ente]

TL;DR:
Will ws://websocket.mtgox.com/mtgox continue to work?

Some days ago I connected to the old, deprecated websocket. Connecting works, but no data comes in any more.

Now thats an incentive to figure out socket.io :-)

edit:

As far as I know there is no possibility to do orders over the websocket...

Seems like now you can indeed do orders over socket.io:

Authenticated commands
These commands require an API key and secret pair to sign requests. Any of the "version 1" requests from the HTTP API can be called.

So I got the handshake coded, getting me my connection-ID. I then can connect to the websocket just fine.
However, I dont receive any data, only two messages: '1::' and '2::'. Both come once in the first few seconds of being connected, then total silence. I am not being disconnected neither, I think.
Do I have to join a channel? Or am I connected to the default channels just like before?
I dont have "sending messages" finished yet to test..

Any hints?

Ente

[zelyony]

So I got the handshake coded, getting me my connection-ID. I then can connect to the websocket just fine.
However, I dont receive any data, only two messages: '1::' and '2::'. Both come once in the first few seconds of being connected, then total silence. I am not being disconnected neither, I think.
Do I have to join a channel? Or am I connected to the default channels just like before?
I dont have "sending messages" finished yet to test..
Any hints?

in the past (3+ weeks ago):
by default u dont subscribed to channels
u may send simple strings over internal (socket.io's) websocket
for "2::" u must send "2::" (or send "2::" every 15secs)
for subscribe u must send post #162
datas stopped in socket after 3-15min.. u can open & sync 2 socket.io..
for now:
post #162 looks no more working - no datas except "1::" & "2::"

[Ente]

OH! Thank you a lot for your help, zelyony!

I was already wondering about the heartbeat. I now answer 1:: and 2:: accordingly, now they keep flowing in constantly.
Well, the socket *must* be working, since the websites using it still work. There would be more outcry in the forum if it was dead altogether..

I am glad I'm not the only one here!

Ente

[Ente]

*bangs head on desk*
I cant get it to work.

1 BTC bounty for the first person who helps me receive regular data again over the websocket!

Here is my (totally stripped) python code:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from websocket import create_connection
import urllib
import re
import time

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json


wsurl = "wss://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/"
iourl = "https://socketio.mtgox.com/socket.io/"

############

print "Connecting to socket.io.."
url = iourl + "1"
f = urllib.urlopen(url)
output = f.read()
f.close()
ausgabe = re.search('[0-9]+', output, 0)
sessionid = ausgabe.group()

print "New websocket url:"
wssurl = wsurl + "1" + "/websocket/" + sessionid
print wssurl

############

print "Connecting to websocket..\n"

socket = create_connection(wssurl)

while 1:
  echo =  socket.recv()
  if "1::" in echo:
    print "Heartbeat 1"
    socket.send("1::")
  elif "2::" in echo:
    print "Heartbeat 2"
    socket.send("2::")
  else:
    print "Message: ",echo
  time.sleep(2)
      

The websocket client I use here is from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client/0.4.
I have a rudimentary heartbeat added here.
The whole script dies eventually, from having stripped all error-handling.
It worked some weeks ago. If you like to see the whole script, let me know.

Bedtime here, will check back in, like, 9 hours..

*frustrated and tired*

Ente

[Ente]

1 BTC bounty for the first person who helps me receive regular data again over the websocket!

I made a new thread for this error-solving bounty:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63969.msg749747#msg749747

Ente