Bitfinex Api - "must specify a request field.."

Lordaster

newbie

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Merit: 0

Help me, please. What i doing wrong?

Code:

api_key = 'some key'
api_secret = 'some secret'
api_url = 'https://api.bitfinex.com/v1'

def Balances():
   nonce = str(long(time.time() * 100000))
   payloadObject = {
   'request':'/balances',
   'nonce': nonce,
   'options':{}
   }
   payload_json = json.dumps(payloadObject)
   payload = str(base64.b64encode(payload_json))
   parms = urllib.urlencode(payloadObject)
   signature = hmac.new(api_secret, parms, hashlib.sha384).hexdigest()
   headers = {"X-BFX-APIKEY": api_key,
   'X-BFX-PAYLOAD': payload,
   "X-BFX-SIGNATURE": signature,
   }

   public = urllib2.urlopen(urllib2.Request(api_url + '/balances', headers))
   balances = json.load(public)
   return balances

TrueBeliever

member

Activity: 78

Merit: 11

I know this is an old topic, but in case anyone is having problems with the Bitfinex API:

In the documentation it shows all authenticated actions as using verb POST. This is NOT correct as you can see by the above code. Use GET. Using POST will give you a 400 error.

I wasted a couple of hours on this problem, hope it saves someone else some time.

wilfried

sr. member

Activity: 288

Merit: 250

ManualMiner

thx! helped

changed nonce too, code now works:

Code:

url = 'https://api.bitfinex.com/v1/balances'
payloadObject = {
'request':'/v1/balances',
'nonce':str(long(time.time() * 100000)),
'options':{}
}
payload_json = json.dumps(payloadObject)
#print payload_json
payload = str(base64.b64encode(payload_json))
#print payload
api_secret="..."
api_key=".."
m=hmac.new(api_secret, payload, hashlib.sha384)
signature=m.hexdigest()
print signature
headers = {
'X-BFX-APIKEY' : api_key,
'X-BFX-PAYLOAD' : base64.b64encode(payload_json),
'X-BFX-SIGNATURE' : signature
}
r = requests.get(url, data={}, headers=headers)
print 'Response Code: ' + str(r.status_code)
print 'Response Header: ' + str(r.headers)
print 'Response Content: '+ str(r.content)

unclescrooge

hero member

Activity: 868

Merit: 1000

Hello Wilfried,

Well, it seems we need to update the api.

The URL to use now it:

api.bitfinex.com/v1/

As such, the parameter
"request" that you send must be

Quote

'request':'/v1/'

instead of

Quote

'request':'/api/v1/'

Let me know if it helps, I'll update the wiki soon.

Raphael
Bitfinex team

wilfried

sr. member

Activity: 288

Merit: 250

ManualMiner

Hy,

When making authenticated calls to the bitfinex api (orders, balances) i get this message:

Code:

Response Content: {"message":"Must specify a 'request' field in the payload that
matches the URL path."}

Whats that about? Huh

The examples I tried (Python):
https://community.bitfinex.com/showwiki.php?title=Sample+API+Code
https://gist.github.com/jordanbaucke/5812039

Code:

url = 'https://bitfinex.com/api/v1/balances'
payloadObject = {
'request':'/api/v1/balances',
'nonce':time.time(),
'options':{}
}
payload_json = json.dumps(payloadObject)
#print payload_json
payload = str(base64.b64encode(payload_json))
#print payload
api_secret="..."
api_key="..."
m=hmac.new(api_secret, payload, hashlib.sha384)
signature=m.hexdigest()
print signature
headers = {
'X-BFX-APIKEY' : api_key,
'X-BFX-PAYLOAD' : base64.b64encode(payload_json),
'X-BFX-SIGNATURE' : signature
}
r = requests.get(url, data={}, headers=headers)
print 'Response Code: ' + str(r.status_code)
print 'Response Header: ' + str(r.headers)
print 'Response Content: '+ str(r.content)

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