0xedward / gdax_bot

fork of gdax_bot - Micro dollar cost averaging for crypto

gdax_bot fork

Fork of @kdmukai's gdax_bot with the following changes:

1. AWS SNS replaced with Pushover and added --push_notify option to send push notifications with Pushover
2. Replace storing secrets in settings.conf with use of environment variables
3. --debug option logs all HTTP requests for auditing and debugging

For additional information, refer to @kdmukai's documentation

Setup

1. Create a Coinbase account
2. Clone the repo and create a virtualenv

python3 -m venv gdax_bot_env

3. Activate your newly created virtualenv

source gdax_bot_env/bin/activate

4. Install dependencies

cd gdax_bot && pip install -r requirements.txt

5. [Optional] Refer to @kdmukai's documentation, if you want to set up a dry run of the bot on Coinbase Pro's sandbox environment
6. [Optional] Create an Pushover account to get push notifications whenever the bot is run
7. [Optional] Create an application token on Pushover and copy your application token and user key
8. [Optional] Set up environment variables for Pushover

export PUSHOVER_APP_TOKEN="paste your application token here"
export PUSHOVER_USER_KEY="paste your Pushover User key here"

9. Set up environment variables for your Coinbase Pro

export COINBASE_PROD_API_KEY="paste your api key here"
export COINBASE_PROD_PASSPHRASE="paste your api passphrase here"
export COINBASE_PROD_API_SECRET_KEY="paste your api secret key (it should be some string in base64) here"

10. Schedule the bot to run as a cron job Suppose you want to buy €75 EUR of BTC every other day at 14:00, if you want to get push notifications and have set up Pushover, run crontab -e and add the following to your cronjobs:

23 17 * * 1 . /home/username/.profile; /path/to/gdax_bot_env/bin/python -u /path/to/repo/gdax_bot/gdax_bot.py -j ETH-USD BUY 50.00 USD --push_notify >> /path/to/coinbase-orders.log

If you don't want to use Pushover, exclude the --push_notify option

23 17 * * 1 . /home/username/.profile; /path/to/gdax_bot_env/bin/python -u /path/to/repo/gdax_bot/gdax_bot.py -j ETH-USD BUY 50.00 USD >> /path/to/coinbase-orders.log

11. [Optional] If you are using WSL, you may want to take the extra step to ensure cron service starts with Windows