Interactive Brokers Web API [Part 1] - Docker Tutorial

[@parttimelarry]

Like the video? Support my content by checking out Interactive Brokers using the link below: www.interactivebrokers.com/mkt/?src=ptlPY1&url=%2Fen%2Findex.php%3Ff%3D1338 Full Source Code: github.com/hackingthemarkets/interactive-brokers-web-api Table of Contents 0:00 What we're building 1:43 Get the source code On Github 2:08 Support My Content 2:24 Interactive Brokers Web API - Why might you use it 4:14 New Web 1.0 documentation and endpoints 6:25 Using Docker to containerize the webapp and IBKR software 7:26 Cloning the project from Github 8:21 Dockerfile walkthrough 12:29 Running It - docker-compose up 13:49 IBKR Authentication 14:50 Web Application Dashboard 15:14 Stopping the container, docker-compose.yml walkthrough 16:18 Environment variables, account id 16:57 Port mapping, mounting a volume 18:03 Client Portal Gateway config.yaml 19:10 The startup script start.sh 20:10 The webapp and scripts/ directory 21:05 Bringing the container back up 21:30 Notes /commands for installing an SSL certificate 22:55 Web application features 24:50 Docker commands, listing containers, executing commands on the container 28:05 Wrapping up, what's next

[@kel78v2]

This is great! Been looking for a python app that can be run in docker and the fact that this is using web api helps too

[@FrankFang-y8b]

A really good API service demo! I downloaded your source codes and made it working on my local machine. Just have a good question, is it able to work and to fetch the market data when your API source codes are deployed to a virtual server and to run it on that server? Is there any predicted issues if not?

[@filmfranz]

The king is back!

[@parttimelarry]

Thank you for the hamburger

[@filmfranz]

@@parttimelarry try a California burrito next time

[@sabashioyaki6227]

Pure Gold! Love your videos!

[@rocketrobin3393]

Thank you for this content. I am very interested in the other 'parts' to this tutorial as well. I appreciate you sharing this. Cheers!

[@FarmerCrypto411]

This is awesome. Is there a way to run the paper trading account instead of the live account?

[@GeekendZone]

Awesome video!

[@fuwang1457]

Hi Part Time Larry Your video is easy for you but a bit professional for us. In Docker file, there are some codes to install JDK and any needed utilities. The codes are as followings: RUN apt-get install -y openjdk-17-jre-headless \ unzip curl procps vim net-tools \ python3 python3-pip python3.11-venv But it takes much time but still fail due to some reasons, can you write some codesand we can run the codes manually in the Git please ?

[@jonatasgomesalves]

that's a great job right there. thanks man!

[@jm7476]

Great content!! , THANKS!!!

[@tr0wb3d3r5]

Ty a lot, these vids are so appreciated💖

[@solojazz75]

How does the webapi and the twsapi compared in terms of features? Are we missing out by focussing on the webapi? Do we know a little bit of the IBKR strategy towards this? I would think they would want everybody to switch to webapi, as it's the norm these days, and bring feature parity. Am I right? Thanks

[@sabashioyaki6227]

Thanks!

[@parttimelarry]

Thank you!

[@aharonbenefrayim1]

Excelent Broo!

[@gerardosuarez2815]

It would be great if you gave us a clue as to how to have the web app treat multiple accounts, I think most of us may have more than one Interactive brokers account

[@mpolavieja]

How long does the web API authentication last? Do you have to re-authenticate once a week like with TWS?

[@Rod11115]

Cool video. Do you think you could do a video on how to import / track all transactions within IB including Option trades?

[@parttimelarry]

Do you mean export? As in export a CSV of trades and profit and loss or something like that? Not sure what importing would mean in this case

[@Rod11115]

Sorry. Yes. Export from IB into a platform / dashboard. To then be able to track data on user performance. For example be able to see how many wining trades and losing trades, which option strategy’s work better, which didn’t perform so well. Etc etc. not sure if you can do the later part but showing how to bring all those transactions into dashboard would be aswome. 👍

[@thebarryman]

So we still need to use the gateway? The new web API documentation page made it sound as though this was no longer part of the process.

[@merwindekalf]

Any news on this one? Using a (local) gateway feels kind of weird when connecting to a a web api...

[@jeffdavidson5601]

What do you know about OAuth 2.0 fir IBKR?

[@livioziltener933]

does this approach keep the gateway running at all times? I sometimes use the IBKR mobile app and it says I'm already logged in. is this due to the port? what would you recommend if I want to use the api and mobile app simultaneously?

[@sabashioyaki6227]

It would be cool to be able to select from multiple accounts...

[@oliverlu442]

Bro went full time

[@fuwang1457]

There is only a glance of time to run the command"docker compose up" and finish the installation of all those softwares in your tutorial video But in reality it is absolutely not.Can you tell me how long it takes to install all them successfully please?Because the installation drove me crazy !

[@fuwang1457]

in 14:30 video, is it required and necessary to have an real account to run the codes in your lesson ?

[@martin777xyz]

Do you have any information on running TWS on snapdragon X? I'd like to think it's possible to tell it to run with a different JVM (eg microsoft openjdk made for arm). I see it's possible to do that with IB Gateway, but TWS??

[@asiddiqi123]

If Larry was a coin I'd have hodl him for a long time

[@only_pps]

If you have a discord, would be happy to join.

[@jaydeeprusia3074]

Hi. Has anyone tried to run this on AWS and authenticate it? I tried a few things, got "Client login succeeds" but still the dashboard asks for authentication.

[@ArunSharma-ek9tl]

Hey Larry can you show how i can send a tradingview webhook tp this to trigger a buy or sell please.

[@parttimelarry]

Not sure I need to do another video on TradingView webhooks, they all follow the same pattern. This is a flask app just like the Alpaca/Binance webhook videos. Instead of requesting an Alpaca/Binance/etc endpoint, you would just request an IBKR endpoint.

[@aedesign5499]

Can you tell me how to make a username and password

[@macrobody]

when you sign up for an account with interactive brokers (you can use the link from Larry) then you will get a username and password. You will need to KYC wait for a few days probably to be accepted, receive a two-factor authentication card and deposit money from your bank account. Good luck :)

[@fuwang1457]

Hi Part Time Larry I tried many many times but still failed on "RUN apt-get install -y openjdk-17-jre-headless ".Each time the docker automatically broke down about 30 minutes later. Each time the Docker log are almost the same as followings: Ign:60;Ign:80;Ign:83;Ign:165;Ign:183 Connection failed [IP: 151.101.110.13280] E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with -fix-missing? I do not know why those five archives can not be fetched each time and I do not know how to resolve this problem. I think that "run apt-get update" has been finished previously .

[@ventiladorbueno1846]

Thanks!

[@parttimelarry]

You are the best, thank you!

[@SeanWYNam]

Thanks!

[@GeekendZone]

Thanks!

[@parttimelarry]

Thanks so much!

[@davidperry8634]

Thanks!

[@parttimelarry]

Thank you sir!