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The Kite Connect API Python client

The official Python client for communicating with the Kite Connect API.

Kite Connect is a set of REST-like APIs that expose many capabilities required to build a complete investment and trading platform. Execute orders in real time, manage user portfolio, stream live market data (WebSockets), and more, with the simple HTTP API collection.

Rainmatter (c) 2016. Licensed under the MIT License.

Documentation

Installing the client

pip install kiteconnect

Usage

from kiteconnect import KiteConnect

kite = new KiteConnect(api_key="xxx")

# Redirect the user to the login url obtained
# from kite.login_url(), and receive the request_token
# from the registered redirect url after the login flow.
# Once you have the request_token, obtain the access_token
# as follows.

access_token = kite.request_access_token("request_token_here", secret="your_secret")
kite.set_access_token(access_token)

# Place an order
try:
	order_id = kite.order_place(tradingsymbol="INFY",
					exchange="NSE",
					transaction_type="BUY",
					quantity=1,
					order_type="MARKET"
					product="NRML")

	print("Order placed. ID is", order_id)
except Exception as e:
	print("Order placement failed", e.message)

# Fetch all orders
print(kite.orders())

Refer to the Python client documentation for the complete list of supported methods.