Demo call to Kraken API. Returns user's account balances.

Run pip install -r requirements.txt in the terminal to install project dependencies. The only current dependecy is requests which is used to make the POST call for retrieving account balances.

The Kraken API uses an api key + private key to authenticate the user and sign messages. These correspond respectively to the two environment variables 'API_KEY_KRAKEN' and 'API_SEC_KRAKEN'.

Set these two environment variables in your terminal as follows (don't put the brackets around your keys):

export API_KEY_KRAKEN=[your_kraken_api_key_here]
export API_SEC_KRAKEN=[your_kraken_api_private_key_here]

NOTE: These are session specific variables and will have to be set each time a new terminal is used.

Type python kraken_api_helpers.py to run the script. This currently defaults to a call to query_account_balances()

If you want to use specific functions of the module (of which there currently exists only two: query_account_balances() and query_coin_balance(coin) ) in one of your scripts, you can import as follows:

from kraken_api_helpers import query_account_balances, query_coin_balance