README.md

The GDAX API Tester - Python

Quick and easy program to test GDAX API endpoints in Python

Getting Started

For those who are totally brand new to Python (like me).

1. In terminal, download Python

$ sudo easy_install pip

2. Requires python-requests. Install with pip:

$ pip install requests or $ easy_install requests

3. Fork this repository by clicking "fork" in the top-right corner of the page.

4. Set up Git and make sure you have set up authentication to Github.

5. Navigate to your fork of this repository and under the repository name, click Clone or Download.

6. In either the clone with HTTP or SSH section, click the copy icon to copy the clone URL for the repository.

7. In terminal, type git clone, and then paste the URL you copied in Step 2. It will look like this, with your GitHub username instead of YOUR-USERNAME:

$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR-USERNAME/gdax-api-tester-python

8. Open up the repository in terminal and create a config.py file:

$ touch config.py

9. Go to https://www.gdax.com/settings/api, select all the necessary permissions, and create an API Key.

10. Open the config.py in your text editor, and include your API Key, API Secret, and Passphase like this:

api_secret = "[your secret here]"
passphrase = "[your passphrase here]"

Running your app

Now let's get started.

1. In terminal, go to your gdax-api-tester-python repository and run:

python gdax-test.py

2. You will see the following question:

These are the following options:
1) balance -> see your gdax wallet balances
2) id -> see your wallet account ids
3) order -> place an order

Enter balance in the terminal to see all of your GDAX wallet balances

Enter id to see the wallet account ids of all your GDAX wallets

Enter order to place a GDAX order