Integration – Manually

You can calculate TA off of any candle set you have. Using this method requires sending a simple post including the candle data for which to calculate an indicator value.

Pro’s

• Calculate TA for any market / exchange / symbol / time frame, stock-market, crypto-market, OTC, etc… 
• Run backtesting on your strategy if you have the historical data.

Con’s

• You need to have / get the candle data ready yourself.

Getting started

Simply post your candles, along with your API Secret to the API:

[POST] https://api.taapi.io/rsi

Include a post parameter: ‘candles’ containing the candles in JSON. The candles must be sent as objects with below keys in an array:

• timestamp: An integer containing the timestamp of the candle in microseconds (not milliseconds)
• open: A float, containing the open price of the candle
• high: A float, containing the high price of the candle
• low: A float, containing the low price of the candle
• close: A float, containing the close price of the candle
• volume: A float, containing the volume of the candle

Example:

[
   {
      'timestamp': 83293829,
      'open': 238.32,
      'high': 343.12,
      'low': 125.94,
      'close': 243.48,
      'volume': 84342.84823
   },
   {
      'timestamp': 83293829,
      'open': 238.32,
      'high': 343.12,
      'low': 125.94,
      'close': 243.48,
      'volume': 84342.84823
   },
   ... n candles
]

The amount of candles depends on which indicator is used. If not sure, then send 300 candles. This amount will work for more or less all indicators.

Mandatory Parameters

Below a list of mandatory post parameters, needed to query the API “manually”:

Optional Parameters

There are no optional paramters for this integration method, other than the ones stated for each indicator on the Indicator endpoints page.

Note: You cannot use the ‘backtrack’ option with this method. If you need to calculate back in time, then remove candles from your dataset yourself.

Examples

NodeJS

// Require axios: npm i axios
const axios = require('axios');

axios.post('https://api.taapi.io/rsi', { // Replace rsi with any other indicator
  params: {
    secret: MY_SECRET,
    candles: [{...}]
  }
})
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(response.data);
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

PHP

<?php

$candles = [{...}]; // Candles json encoded
 
// Prepare new cURL resource
$ch = curl_init('https://api.taapi.io/rsi');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLINFO_HEADER_OUT, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $canldes);
 
// Set HTTP Header for POST request 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Content-Length: ' . strlen($canldes))
);
 
// Submit the POST request
$result = curl_exec($ch);
 
// Close cURL session handle
curl_close($ch);

// View result
print_r(json_decode($result));