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Python Poloniex

Python Poloniex is a GPL-2.0 Python library that wraps the Poloniex exchange API, giving Python programs a client for API commands and WebSocket subscriptions.

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Understand the project

Practical overview

When it fits

Use it when a Python program needs to make Poloniex API calls or subscribe to its WebSocket feed.

Who it is for

  • Python developers connecting scripts or exchange tools to Poloniex.
  • Developers collecting ticker, chart, trade-history or streaming market data.
  • Developers making private API queries with Poloniex-issued credentials.

Documented uses

  • Call API commands through a Python client or command-specific helper methods.
  • Retrieve example data such as ticker values and chart data.
  • Subscribe to WebSocket channels and process updates with callbacks.
  • Query private account information such as balances using an API key and secret.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository describes Python 2.7 and Python 3+ support and gives a pip installation command for the poloniexapi package. Private API commands require a Poloniex API key and secret; the README's public ticker example does not pass credentials.

  • The README provides both a general command-call interface and helper methods that sanitize command arguments.
  • It describes command-name checks, a rate limiter and retries for failed calls during connection issues.
  • WebSocket subscriptions use a separate PoloniexSocketed class and callbacks.
  • The documented examples do not define a complete trading workflow or enumerate every supported API operation.

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 Poloniex Python wrapper and request ticker data

Install the library and make a public ticker API call from Python.

Before you start

  • Python 2.7 or Python 3+
  • The pip installer

Steps

  1. Install the package with the command below.

    Documented command
    pip install --upgrade poloniexapi

  2. In a Python program, import Poloniex with from poloniex import Poloniex.

  3. Create a client with polo = Poloniex() and request ticker data with print(polo('returnTicker')).

Expected outcome

The program prints the response to the `returnTicker` API call.

Guide limitations

  • The guide covers a public ticker request; private API commands require a Poloniex API key and secret.
  • The README directs users to the project wiki or help(poloniex) for additional usage details.
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Source-based practical guide

Subscribe to Poloniex websocket volume and ticker channels

Start a websocket client, receive callbacks for volume and ticker updates, then unsubscribe and stop it.

Before you start

  • Python 2.7 or Python 3+
  • The poloniexapi package installed
  • A Python environment that can connect to the Poloniex websocket API

Steps

  1. Import poloniex, logging, and sleep from time; enable logging with logging.basicConfig() and set poloniex.logger to logging.DEBUG.

  2. Define a callback such as on_volume(data): print(data), create sock = poloniex.PoloniexSocketed(), and start the websocket with sock.startws(subscribe={'24hvolume': on_volume}).

  3. After allowing time for initialization, subscribe to the ticker with sock.subscribe(chan='ticker', callback=print).

  4. Unsubscribe with sock.unsubscribe(1002) and stop the websocket with sock.stopws(), allowing time between operations as shown in the project example.

Expected outcome

The example receives websocket callbacks for the subscribed channels, unsubscribes from ticker, and stops the websocket thread.

Guide limitations

  • The example uses sleeps to allow initialization and subscription activity; it does not specify a general timing guarantee.
  • Channel names or integer IDs can be used for subscribe and unsubscribe operations; the example uses the ticker ID 1002 when unsubscribing.
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