Kraken.com exchange API, Python 3 package.
This package is intentionally as lean as possible, and only provides a minimal interface to the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange.
Intended for developers, not traders.
- clikraken - command-line client for the Kraken exchange
- CurrencyViewer - short program for crypto to fiat conversion and data extraction
This package requires Python 3.3 or later. The module will be called
krakenex.
To install system-wide using standard-library setuptools, run:
python3 ./setup.py install
Add --user to install locally for the user:
python3 ./setup.py install --user
A PyPI package is also available. To install system-wide using pip:
pip install krakenex
Or, to install locally for the user:
pip install --user krakenex
View the latest or stable online at ReadTheDocs.
The code is documented in docstrings, and can be viewed with a text editor.
You can also generate your own with, e.g., make html in doc.
This requires sphinx and its rtd theme.
For a list of public/private Kraken API methods, see their API documentation.
A few package use examples are available in the examples directory.
This package will never support Python 2. There will be no changes made to enable compatibility with Python 2. Python 3.0 was released in 2008, before Bitcoin was.
There is no reason to support Python 2 except for compatibility with systems from the pre-blockchain era.
The fact that some GNU/Linux distributions still ship with Python 2 as the default seems unfortunate to me. However, I will not support this madness with my precious time.
If you have a valid reason to use Python 2, see python2-krakenex. Be warned, though, that it is unmaintained.
Core code is licensed under LGPLv3. See LICENSE.txt.
Examples are licensed under the Simplified BSD license. See
examples/LICENSE.txt.
Payward's PHP API, Alan McIntyre's BTC-e API, and ScriptProdigy's Cryptsy Python API were used as examples when writing the original python2-krakenex package. It was then ported to Python 3.