Python 3 client for Bittrex REST API

Python client for Bittrex REST API

Features

• Completely annotated design: You don't have to guess or remember parameters and return types. Your ide will auto complete almost everything.
• Paper trading: Includes Papertrex class which is compatible with original Bittrex class. Any buy or sell order is simulated with real market data. You don't have to lose money in order to test your strategy or learn API.
• Rate limit mitigation: Once you reach rate limit of Bittrex, API slows down to cooperate with Bittrex API, so your requests never get rejected because of rate limiting.

Example

from bittrex import Bittrex

b = Bittrex(apikey='<YOUR_APIKEY>', secret='<YOUR_SECRET', understood='understood')

err, balances = b.get_balances_dict()
if not err:
    for coin, balance_info in balances.items():
        print(f'Coin:{coin} - {balance_info}')

Output:

Coin:BLK - {'Currency': 'BLK', 'Balance': 1e-08, 'Available': 1e-08, 'Pending': 0.0, 'CryptoAddress': None}
Coin:BTC - {'Currency': 'BTC', 'Balance': 0.70257111, 'Available': 0.70257111, 'Pending': 0.0, 'CryptoAddress': '1M8gBWB33onbgfiXMuZrugUuNfycbG8dgr'}
Coin:ZEN - {'Currency': 'ZEN', 'Balance': 0.00958101, 'Available': 0.00958101, 'Pending': 0.0, 'CryptoAddress': None}

All other methods works the same.

Methods return a a tuple in a format of tuple[error, result].

If error is None then there is no error and you use the result, otherwise error contains the error message.

Typical calling convention I used is something like this:

err, result = b.method(params)
if err:
    print('Error:', err)
else:
    # use result
    print(result)

Paper trading

Using real market and real coin is risky. You may lose your valuable coins. You can use Papertrex to avoid this.

All buy and sell requests act like they are really sending request to Bittrex but in reality, it is just a simulation.

Papertrex fetches real-time price and candle information from market.

Normally, when you issue a real buy or a sell order, your order gets placed first.

Then depending on highest bid price or lowest ask price, your order might be in 3 states: fulfilled, partially fulfilled or pending.

Papertrex simulates this with a background job. Just like a real order, your order will be in any of these states.

This will help you to get familiar with API and develop buy/sell strategies.