MtGox/API/HTTP/v0
Version 0 of the HTTP API is available at https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/.
This API is becoming deprecated. You will see warning messages in the responses when you use this API.
The URLs used as titles below already include the 0 as part of the url shown above. There is no need to repeat this.
HTTP API version 0 methods
0/data/getTrades.php
This allows retrieving all trades which happened in the last 24 hours. The returned data is cached and may not reflect latest activity.
http://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/getTrades.php?Currency=USD http://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/getTrades.php?Currency=USD&since=1
Parameters:
- since: Passing a tid in "since" allows retrieving all trades since that trade. The passed id is may not exist. Ie. to get all trades from the very beginning one would just call https://mtgox.com/code/data/getTrades.php?since=0 . since returns only 100 trades, and you can call the method again by passing the latest trade you have imported in since.
- data is returned in standard json format like :
[
{"date":1279408157,
"price":"0.04951",
"amount":"20",
"price_int":"4951",
"amount_int":"2000000000",
"tid":"1",
"price_currency":"USD",
"item":"BTC",
"trade_type":""
"primary":"Y"
},
{"date":1279424586,"price":"0.05941","amount":"50.01","price_int":"5941","amount_int":"5001000000","tid":"2","price_currency":"USD","item":"BTC","trade_type":""}]
0/getDepth.php
Get the current Market depth
https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/getDepth.php?Currency=PLN https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/getDepth.php?Currency=AUD https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/getDepth.php?Currency=USD
{"asks":[[11.37998,22.89],[11.38,42.44592124],[11.3844,165],[11.599,1000]],"bids":[[10.7078,0.3],[10.70964,0.02024837],[10.70978,0.55822],[11.2903,2.8]]}
0/getFunds.php
Get your current balance
https://mtgox.com/api/0/getFunds.php
getfunds is now deprecated since multi currency, please use info.php
{
["usds"]=> "18.74737"
["btcs"]=> "0.01733"
}
0/buyBTC.php
Place an order to Buy BTC
https://mtgox.com/api/0/buyBTC.php
POST data: amount=#&price=#&Currency=PLN
returns a list of your open orders
you can omit the price to do a market order
0/sellBTC.php
Place an order to Sell BTC
https://mtgox.com/api/0/sellBTC.php
POST data: &amount=#&price=#&Currency=PLN
returns a list of your open orders
you can omit the price to do a market order
0/getOrders.php
Fetch a list of your open Orders
https://mtgox.com/api/0/getOrders.php
oid: Order ID
type: 1 for sell order or 2 for buy order
status: 1 for active, 2 for not enough funds
0/cancelOrder.php
Cancel an order
https://mtgox.com/api/0/cancelOrder.php
POST data: oid=#&type=#
oid: Order ID
type: 1 for sell order or 2 for buy order
0/redeemCode.php
Used to redeem a mtgox coupon code
https://mtgox.com/api/0/redeemCode.php
- call with a post parameter "code" containing the code to redeem
- it will return an array with amount (float amount value of code), currency (3 letters, BTC or USD), reference (the transaction id), and status
0/redeemBtcPrivkey.php
used to redeem a private key via the API
https://mtgox.com/api/0/redeemBtcPrivkey.php
- parameters :
"key":code "keytype":"auto" "description":description
- returns the btc adress and the total number of btcs in this private key
0/withdraw.php
withdraw / Send BTC
https://mtgox.com/api/0/withdraw.php
POST data: group1=BTC&btca=bitcoin_address_to_send_to&amount=#
- pass btca parameter to withdraw to a btc adress
- pass group1 for a coupon : BTC2CODE or USD2CODE
- pass group1=DWUSD&dwaccount=XXX-XXX-XXXX (no btca=xxxxxxx) for a dwolla withdraw
- pass green=1 to use the new greenaddress feature ( see GreenAddress )
- pass no_instant=1 to use the bitcoin blockchain, even if the receiving address (btca) is on MtGox
- return code and status if successful
- Example response
{u'status': u'Funds are on their way (bitcoin transaction: 2426f19cda3332b25d02daf2479bc558b243a0631584d75dd2bb8ee45f50a118)',
u'reference': u'58a9e537-e64a-4e66-bc45-31c1bdc3a91b'}
To make a withdraw in another Currency , use group1=USD2CODE and add a Currency parameter ( example Currency=EUR to get a mtgox EUR coupon )
0/btcAddress.php
get a bitcoin deposit adress for your account
https://mtgox.com/api/0/btcAddress.php
- pass POST data "description" to add a description that will appear in your history when this BTC address receive a deposit
- pass POST data "ipn" to add an url that mtgox will ping whenever this new address receive funds
description ( see above ) is also required for ipn to work
- returns a bitcoin deposit address
0/history_[CUR].csv
Allows downloading your activity history for a given currency (BTC or USD for now).
https://mtgox.com/api/0/history_BTC.csv
https://mtgox.com/api/0/history_USD.csv
encoding is utf-8
0/info.php
https://mtgox.com/api/0/info.php
returns info about your account, funds, fees, API privileges, withdraw limits . . .
{
["Login"]=> "some_user"
["Index"]=> "111111"
["Rights"]=> {
[0]=> "get_info"
[1]=> "trade"
}
["Language"]=> "en_US"
["Created"]=> "2012-03-12 17:58:53"
["Last_Login"]=> "2012-07-10 09:19:56"
["Wallets"]=>
{
["BTC"]=>
{
["Balance"]=>
{
["value"]=> "0.01733000"
["value_int"]=> "1733000"
["display"]=> "0.01733000| BTC"
["display_short"]=> "0.02| BTC"
["currency"]=> "BTC"
}
["Operations"]=> ''
["Daily_Withdraw_Limit"]=>
{
["value"]=> "200.00000000"
["value_int"]=> "20000000000"
["display"]=> "200.00000000| BTC"
["display_short"]=> "200.00| BTC"
["currency"]=> "BTC"
}
["Monthly_Withdraw_Limit"]=> ''
["Max_Withdraw"]=>
{
["value"]=> "200.00000000"
["value_int"]=> "20000000000"
["display"]=> "200.00000000| BTC"
["display_short"]=> "200.00| BTC"
["currency"]=> "BTC"
}
}
["EUR"]=>
{
...
}
}
["Trade_Fee"]=> float(0.6)
}
0/ticker
http://data.mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php
returns the current ticker :
{"ticker":
{
"high":5.70653,
"low":5.4145,
"avg":5.561388723,
"vwap":5.610932845,
"vol":55698,
"last":5.56915,
"buy":5.51326,
"sell":5.5672
}
}
the time frame for high, low, vol, avg, vwap . . . is sliding 24 hours
what is vwap ?
please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VWAP
0/bitcoin_tx
https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/bitcoin_tx.php
will show the list of all unconfirmed pending txs tracked by mtgox
pending transactions
https://data.mtgox.com/api/0/bitcoin_tx.php
gives a list of the transaction numbers for transactions broadcasted by mtgox to the bitcoin network, but not yet included in a block
Examples & Tools
Shell-type CLI
python : http://www.goxsh.info/
Perl module
Other
https : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7046370/https-request-with-boost-asio-and-openssl
https://github.com/sje397/mtgox-plasmoid
module perl : http://search.cpan.org/~mndrix/Finance-MtGox-0.02/
PHP Dashboard
https://github.com/Lexiks/MyBitBoard
PHP ticker and pricing tools
https://github.com/neofutur/bitcoin_simple_php_tools
Bash trade history
bash : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=39402.0