custom-code-examples.md

description
The examples in this document intend to demonstrate how you can send signals to TradersPost from custom programming languages like PHP, Python, etc.

Custom Code Examples

cURL

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
-d '{"ticker": "AMD", "action": "buy", "price": 85.50}' \
-X POST https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74

PHP

composer require symfony/http-client

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Symfony\Component\HttpClient\HttpClient;

$webhookUrl = 'https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74';

$client = HttpClient::create();

$response = $client->request('POST', $webhookUrl, [
    'json' => [
        'ticker' => 'AMD',
        'action' => 'buy',
        'price' => 85.50,
    ]
]);

echo $response->getContent();

Python

import requests

r = requests.post(
    'https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74',
    json={"ticker": "AMD", "action": "buy", "price": 85.50}
)

print(r.json())

Ruby

require 'net/http'
require 'uri'
require 'json'

uri = URI.parse('https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74')

header = {'Content-Type': 'text/json'}

signal = {
   ticker: 'AMD',
   action: 'buy',
   price: 85.50
}

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri, header)
request.body = signal.to_json

response = http.request(request)

puts response.body

JavaScript

fetch('https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
        ticker: 'AMD',
        action: 'buy',
        price: 85.50
    })
})
.then(response => response.json())
.then(data => console.log(data))
.catch(error => console.error(error));

Go

package main

import (
	"bytes"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74"
	data := map[string]interface{}{
		"ticker": "AMD",
		"action": "buy",
		"price":  85.50,
	}

	jsonData, err := json.Marshal(data)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", url, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonData))
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var result map[string]interface{}
	err = json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&result)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	fmt.Println(result)
}

C++

#include <iostream>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main() {
    CURL *curl;
    CURLcode res;

    curl_global_init(CURL_GLOBAL_ALL);

    curl = curl_easy_init();
    if (curl) {
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74");

        struct curl_slist *headers = NULL;
        headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);

        const char *json_data = "{\"ticker\": \"AMD\", \"action\": \"buy\", \"price\": 85.50}";
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_data);

        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        if (res != CURLE_OK) {
            std::cerr << "curl_easy_perform() failed: " << curl_easy_strerror(res) << std::endl;
        }

        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
    }

    curl_global_cleanup();

    return 0;
}

C#

class Program
{
    static async Task Main(String[] args)
    {
        var client = new HttpClient();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));

        var json = "{\"ticker\": \"AMD"", \"action\": \"buy\", \"price\": 85.50}";

        var content = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");

        var response = client.PostAsync("https://traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74", content);

        string responseBody = response.ToString();

        Console.WriteLine(responseBody);
    }
}

Java

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL("https://webhooks.traderspost.io/trading/webhook/8c9d9620-c50d-416e-926e-0ec01ee83522/a353c3e16f9e3ded7c58cfedd2c38d74");
        HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        con.setRequestMethod("POST");
        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");

        String jsonInputString = "{\"ticker\": \"AMD\", \"action\": \"buy\", \"price\": 85.50}";

        con.setDoOutput(true);
        OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream();
        byte[] input = jsonInputString.getBytes("utf-8");
        os.write(input, 0, input.length);

        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), "utf-8"));
        StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
        String responseLine = null;
        while ((responseLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
            response.append(responseLine.trim());
        }
        System.out.println(response.toString());
    }
}

Take these examples and combine them with a service like Polygon or Alpaca to get live market data to build your own custom strategies and use TradersPost to manage the integration with your broker.

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