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Gemini Python

Gemini Python is an open-source Python client library for Gemini REST API and WebSocket interfaces, with separate clients for public market data and authenticated account and order operations.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when a Python application needs Gemini REST API calls or WebSocket market and order-event data, and select the public or authenticated client according to the task.

Who it is for

  • Python developers integrating Gemini market data into tools or applications.
  • Developers building Gemini trading integrations that need authenticated order methods or private order-event streams.

Documented uses

  • Retrieve Gemini symbols, symbol details, ticker data, order books, trade history and auction history.
  • Stream public market data and inspect recorded trades, bids and asks.
  • Create, cancel and check orders, query balances, or use documented deposit and withdrawal methods through authenticated API access.
  • Receive real-time order-event information such as order acceptance, fills and cancellations.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The documented PublicClient requires neither an API key nor a Gemini account. PrivateClient requires public and private API keys, a Gemini account and a registered application. The repository specifies an MIT license.

  • PublicClient and private methods have different account and credential requirements.
  • The README documents sandbox initialization for REST clients and WebSocket clients.
  • The market-data WebSocket is public; the order-events WebSocket is private and requires credentials.
  • With the API heartbeat option enabled, the README says the user must revive the heartbeat manually.
  • The README says subscription filters for OrderEventsWS were under development.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Install the library and initialize a public client

Set up the documented Python package and initialize a client for public Gemini API calls.

Before you start

  • Python environment with pip.

Steps

  1. Install the package with the command below.

    Documented command
    pip install gemini_python

  2. Import gemini in a Python program.

  3. Initialize gemini.PublicClient(); use gemini.PublicClient(sandbox=True) for the documented sandbox option.

Expected outcome

A PublicClient instance is initialized for public API methods such as symbols, ticker and order-book requests.

Guide limitations

  • The README describes initialization and lists public methods; it does not provide a complete application workflow or response-handling example.
  • PublicClient does not cover the authenticated methods that require account credentials.
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