Coinbase Exchange

The official Node.js library for the Coinbase Exchange API.

Note: this library may be subtly broken or buggy. The code is released under the MIT License – please take the following message to heart:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Features

Easy programmatic trading.
A customizable, websocket-synced Order Book implementation.
API clients with convenient methods for every API endpoint.
Abstracted interfaces – don't worry about HMAC signing or JSON formatting, the library does it for you.
Semantic versioning.

Installation

# From NPM
npm install coinbase-exchange
# From Github
npm install coinbase/coinbase-exchange-node

Quick Start

The Public API Client

The Coinbase Exchange API has both public and private endpoints. If you're only interested in the public endpoints, you should use a PublicClient.

var CoinbaseExchange = require('coinbase-exchange');
var publicClient = new CoinbaseExchange.PublicClient();

All API methods are callback based. Your callback should accept three arguments:

var callback = function(err, response, data) {
  // your code here.
};

This callback will be passed directly to the underlying request library's request method. err will be either null or an Error. response will be a generic HTTP response abstraction created by the request library. data will be the result of JSON-decoding the server's response, or null if the response was not parseable. You can learn about the API responses of each endpoint by reading our documentation.

Public API Methods

getProducts

publicClient.getProducts(callback);

getProductOrderBook

// Get the order book at the default level of detail.
publicClient.getProductOrderBook('BTC-USD', callback);
// Get the order book at a specific level of detail.
publicClient.getProductOrderBook('BTC-USD', 3, callback);

getProductTicker

publicClient.getProductTicker('BTC-USD', callback);

getProductTrades

publicClient.getProductTrades('BTC-USD', callback);

getProductHistoricRates

publicClient.getProductHistoricRates('BTC-USD', callback);

getProduct24HrStats

publicClient.getProduct24HrStats('BTC-USD', callback);

getCurrencies

publicClient.getCurrencies(callback);

getTime

publicClient.getTime(callback);

The Authenticated API Client

The private exchange API endpoints require you to authenticate with an API key. You can create a new API key in your exchange account's settings.

var CoinbaseExchange = require('coinbase-exchange');
var authedClient = new CoinbaseExchange.AuthenticatedClient(
  key, b64secret, passphrase);

Like the PublicClient, all API methods are callback based. The callback should be in the same format:

var callback = function(err, response, data) {
  // your code here.
};

The AuthenticatedClient inherits all of the API methods defined by the PublicClient, so if you're hitting both public and private API endpoints you only need to create a single client.

Private API Methods

getAccounts

authedClient.getAccounts(callback);

getAccount

var accountID = '7d0f7d8e-dd34-4d9c-a846-06f431c381ba';
authedClient.getAccount(accountID, callback);

getAccountHistory

var accountID = '7d0f7d8e-dd34-4d9c-a846-06f431c381ba';
authedClient.getAccountHistory(accountID, callback);

getAccountHolds

var accountID = '7d0f7d8e-dd34-4d9c-a846-06f431c381ba';
authedClient.getAccountHolds(accountID, callback);

buy, sell

// Buy 1 BTC @ 100 USD
var buyParams = {
  'price': '100.00', // USD
  'size': '1',  // BTC
  'product_id': 'BTC-USD',
};
authedClient.buy(buyParams, callback);

// Sell 1 BTC @ 110 USD
var sellParams = {
  'price': '110.00', // USD
  'size': '1', // BTC
  'product_id': 'BTC-USD',
};
authedClient.sell(sellParams, callback);

cancelOrder

var orderID = 'd50ec984-77a8-460a-b958-66f114b0de9b';
authedClient.cancelOrder(orderID, callback);

getOrders

authedClient.getOrders(callback);

getOrder

var orderID = 'd50ec984-77a8-460a-b958-66f114b0de9b';
authedClient.getOrder(orderID, callback);

getFills

authedClient.getFills(callback);

deposit, withdraw

// Deposit to your Exchange USD account from your Coinbase USD account.
var depositParamsUSD = {
  'amount': '100.00', // USD,
  'coinbase_account_id': '60680c98bfe96c2601f27e9c', // USD Coinbase Account ID
};
authedClient.deposit(depositParamsUSD, callback);
// Withdraw from your Exchange USD account to your Coinbase USD account.
var withdrawParamsUSD = {
  'amount': '100.00', // USD,
  'coinbase_account_id': '60680c98bfe96c2601f27e9c', // USD Coinbase Account ID
};
authedClient.withdraw(withdrawParamsUSD, callback);

// Deposit to your Exchange BTC account from your Coinbase BTC account.
var depositParamsBTC = {
  'amount': '2.0', // BTC,
  'coinbase_account_id': '536a541fa9393bb3c7000023', // BTC Coinbase Account ID
};
authedClient.deposit(depositParamsBTC, callback);
// Withdraw from your Exchange BTC account to your Coinbase BTC account.
var withdrawParamsBTC = {
  'amount': '2.0', // BTC,
  'coinbase_account_id': '536a541fa9393bb3c7000023', // BTC Coinbase Account ID
};
authedClient.withdraw(withdrawParamsBTC, callback);

The Order Book

The OrderBook is a local mirror of the Coinbase Exchange's order book, synced via WebSockets.

Setup

var CoinbaseExchange = require('coinbase-exchange');
var orderBook = new CoinbaseExchange.OrderBook();

Listening to Events

The order book is a type of EventEmitter. For the following events, the data emitted is always in the same form as the messages received over WebSocket – you can learn more about those message types here.

These events are emitted immediately after the OrderBook has been updated to include the message's contents. So by the time your code is notified, the book will already reflect the changes described by the message.

Example: listening to order matches:

orderBook.on('match', function(message) {
  console.log("Order",
              message.maker_order_id,
              "matched with order",
              message.taker_order_id);
  console.log(message.size, "BTC  @", message.price, "USD");
});

There are other events to which you can listen:

"ignored": Emitted as part of the order book syncing process, once for every out-of-date message that is ignored. The data is the original message sent over the websocket, one of the types listed above.
"unknown": Emitted when a message is received with a type that the OrderBook doesn't know how to handle. The data is the original message sent over the websocket.
"statechange": Emitted any time the order book instance changes state. A hash with two keys, "old" mapping to the previous state, "new" mapping to the new, current state of the order book.

Example: listening for all errors

orderBook.on('statechange', function(state) {
  if (state.new === orderBook.STATES.error) {
    console.log("Was", state.old, "now in state", state.new);
    // clean up things here
  }
});

States of the order book

An instance of the order book can be in the following states:

"closed": the WebSocket connection has been closed and no new messages are being processed.
"open": the WebSocket connection is open, but no new messages are being processed.
"syncing": the WebSocket connection is open, new messages are being queued, and the order book snapshot is being loaded.
"processing": the WebSocket connection is open, the order book is in sync, and new messages are being processed as they're received.
"error": an error has occurred and an exception has been thrown. The WebSocket connection is closed and no new messages are being received or processed.

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