Topic: Data source url change (ticker, depth, history) - page 3. (Read 17640 times)

You should try before asking for that

https://data.mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/fulldepth

@Donatus

with http://data.mtgox.com they can separate it (even physically) from http://mtgox.com. Thats the intention and its good.

Can you make the change more compatible with the existing api please?  For example, the fulldepth url is documented in the wiki as being...

https://mtgox.com/api/1/BTCUSD/fulldepth

but I don't see that in the OP?

--D

thank you magicaltux. with the ramp and dump the other day i suspect your bandwidth got stretched to breaking point with EVERYONE looking at the charts/tickers.

so im glad to hear your moving the tickers to separate area so that it helps to keep live data flowing and most probably helps ease the ability to add more servers later with higher demand over the next few years, without affecting the other parts of mtgox.

it might be worth adding that it is best to use these tickers for actual 'live day traders' and other people EG just for 'curious/browsing audience' to use charting/data servers such as clark moody/bitcoinity.org. as they are only a few milliseconds different. but it help offload/reduce the strain on mtgox themselves.

Many people around here use our ticker to get the latest Bitcoin price, or other of our public data API (depth, etc).

Because of this, the strain on the system has been growing day after day, and has reached a level where we need absolutely to do something. We now have the ticker, depth and trade history available at a new url.

Because not everyone can afford to change their software to support our api v1/v2 ticker, we made this in a way that just replacing the hostname should work (mtgox.com => data.mtgox.com). Other API calls (ie. any api where you authenticate) should still be done as usual on mtgox.com. Please post on this thread or contact MtGox's support ([email protected]) if you have any issue with this change.

Caching is slightly more aggressive for now, but we will reduce it once we confirm everything works the way we expect it to work. Please note that we added a "now" value to the ticker that will allow you to know how old the ticker is.

Ticker


Depth

Regular depth data


Full depth data


"Large" depth data (deprecated)


Trades



We will eventually replace the URLs on MtGox.com with Location redirects, however since this will most likely break many applications (follow location is not enabled by default on curl for example) and have a negative impact on performance of said applications, we start with a public announcement.

Please update your applications/software/etc by April 1st 2013.