Introduction¶
Getting Started¶
Pocket is a collection of fast, high performing, low complexity and easy to understand trading APIs for you, the retail traders to build state of the art financial platforms which can be used for trading, investment, wealth generation, automation of trading strategies & execute algo based strategies.
It is a set of REST-like APIs that provide integration with our trading eco-system. You can Execute, Modify and Cancel Orders in real time, Manage Portfolio, access Live Market data feeds and Order status stream, view Funds & Balance, and build much more in the Capital Market space with our Open APIs.
Pocket APIs offer resource-based URLs that accept JSON or form-encoded requests. The response is returned as JSON-encoded by using Standard HTTP response codes unless explicitly stated otherwise. The service calls are platform independent. To Jumpstart your development, toolkits are available in several Programming languages.
Libraries & SDKs¶
Below is a list of pre-built client libraries for pocket Open APIs developed in popularly used programming languages that can be used to interact with the APIs without having to make raw HTTP calls.
- Python library (Official)
- JAVA SDK (Official)
- NodeJS SDK
- C# SDK
Base URL
The Base URL is the common URL used as a prefix for all API calls.
API Versions¶
The current stable version of the pocket Open API is 1.0 and All requests go to it by default. It is recommended that a specific version be requested explicitly for production applications as major releases may break older implementations. Major changes in the API will be released with new versions.