Kraken exchange API module

Install

npm install kraken-exc

About

This module utilizes the Kraken Exchange API. It only covers the main API endpoints (for now). This document will guide you through a list of the endpoints that this module utilizes, along with explanation of initialization, input parameters, success and error responses, and examples.

Initialization

var Kraken = require('kraken-exc');

var kraken = new Kraken({
    key: 'your_api_key',
    secret: 'your_api_secret',
    otp: 'your_otp_password'
  }
);

The constructor initializes 3 more parameters: host, timeout and supportedCurrencies . If not provided at model declaration, these parameters will be set to https://api.kraken.com, 5000 and ['ETH', 'BTC', 'EUR', 'USD'] respectively.

The supportedCurrencies property should be an array of strings where each string is a currency code such as BTC or USD.

Note: All data and errors are returned as objects, not as stringified JSON.

Note: All amounts, except the fee and order book price for exchange, are denominated in sub-units. This means 0.01 USD will be returned as 100, and 1.0 BTC will be returned as 100000000.

Errors format

We use the Node's native Error class to generate an error, to which we attach two custom properties: code and cause.

• code represents the machine readable code for the certain error. Eg. exchange_server_error (for a list of all error codes used in the exchange OSS modules, see bellow)

• cause contains the raw error object, returned from the system, be it the Node environment, the exchange server or something else We use the Error class because later, upon the error object, we can call the .stack property (or any other native property), that is auto-generated with the object. This way there is no need to assign it explicitly, when returning the error.

Example of an error message

{
  [Error: Kraken only supports BTC as base and USD, EUR as quote currencies, respectively.],
   code: 'internal_module_error',
   cause: 'some cause or an error stack'
}

Then, at the receiver side, you can easily call error.message to get the custom, human-readable error message, or error.code for the machine-readable one, and so on (provided that you call your received object error).

List of error codes

• exchange_server_error: Indicates that the error has happened in and was received from the remote exchange server itself (Kraken).
• internal_module_error: Indicates that the error has happened internally in the module. This means that a logical failure, a data manipulation failure has occurred or wrong input parameters have been passed to the exposed endpoint.
• insufficient_funds: Indicates that placing a trade failed due to insufficient funds

Exposed endpoints

Ticker

Returns ticker information for a given currency pair

Input parameters

baseCurrency: The base currency of the currency pair

quoteCurrency: The quote currency of the currency pair

Example call

kraken.getTicker('BTC', 'USD', function(err, ticker) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(ticker);
  }
});

Response on success

{
  baseCurrency: 'BTC',
  quoteCurrency: 'USD',
  bid: 649.89,
  ask: 650.12,
  lastPrice: 649.97,
  high24Hours: 652.55,
  low24Hours: 634.98,
  vwap24Hours: 647.37,
  volume24Hours: 1234567890 // 12.3456789 BTC
}

Order Book

Returns the current order book of Kraken in a custom organized object.

Input parameters

baseCurrency: The currency of baseAmount

quoteCurrency: The currency to determine the price quoteCurrency/baseCurrency

Example call

kraken.getOrderBook('BTC', 'USD', function (err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

Response on success

{
  baseCurrency: "BTC",
  quoteCurrency: "USD",
  asks: [                   // List of entries with bitcoins for sale, sorted by lowest price first
    {
      price: 450.65,
      baseAmount: 44556677  // 0.44556677 BTC for sale
    }
    // ... more ask entries
  ],
    bids: [                 // List of entries for buying bitcoins, sorted by most highest price first
      {
        price: 450.31,
        baseAmount: 33445566 // Someone wants to buy 0.33445566 BTC
      }
    // ... more bid entries
  ]
}

Account Balance

Returns the available and total balance amounts of the account.

Input parameters

none

Example call

kraken.getBalance(function (err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

Response on success

{
  available: {
    USD: 123,       // 1.23 USD
    EUR: 321,       // 3.21 EUR
    BTC: 23000000   // 23 BTC
  }
  total: {
    USD: 245,
    EUR: 653
    BTC: 24000000
  }
}

Order Status

Fetches a trade object which contains the status and an array of the transactions to that trade, from Kraken. Constructs and returns an object with trade currency pair and accummulated amounts from all transactions of the trade.

Input parameters

An object that contains data about the trade to be fetched. Must have at least the following structure:

trade: {
  raw: {
    id: 123456789,       // Obligatory
    orderType: 'sell',   // optional
    datetime: '2015-09-03T11:40:46.000Z' // optional. Can be ISO-8601, UNIX timestamp or YYYY-MM-DD format.
  }
  // You can also add any other parameters you wish.
}

Example call

kraken.getTrade(trade, function (err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(data);
  }
});

Response on success

 {
    type: 'limit',
    state: closed',
    baseAmount: -200000000, // Sold 2.00000000 BTC...
    quoteAmount: 74526,     // ... for 745.26 USD
    baseCurrency: 'BTC'     // Currency of the baseAmount
    quoteCurrency: 'USD'    // Currency of the quoteAmount
    feeAmount: 11,          // Paid 0.11 USD to the exchange as commission for the order
    feeCurrency: 'USD',     // Currency of the feeAmount
    raw: {}                 // Exchange-specific object
 }

User Transactions

Returns a list of 'deposit' and 'withdrawal' type transaction objects, starting from the latest one, descending, fetched from your Kraken account. If the latestTransaction is provided, then fetch the transactions from the provided one, onwards. This is made according to the logic that in your system you have the latest transaction, and you want to fetch all the transaction, from your Kraken account, that happened after this transaction.

If this object parameter is not provided (null), return ALL transactions from the account. This might take a minute, if you've got a lot (tens of thousands) of transactions in your account.

NOTE: The Kraken API has a limit of 1000 objects per response and a limit of 600 requests per 10 min. If you are going to get a list of transactions starting from a very, very old transaction, and provided that you've got many transactions on your account (more than 600 000, and the tx you're looking for is older than that), you risk to go over the requests limit and getting your API IP blocked from Kraken.

NOTE: Due to the implementation of the Kraken API, this method will make n*2 HTTP requests, where n stands for the number of supported currencies as passed into the constructor.

Input parameters

An object that contains data about the latest trade fetched onwards from which to search for transactions. Must have at least the following structure:

var latestTransaction = {
  raw: {
    id: 10170901,
    datetime: '2015-12-19T14:55:57.000Z' // Obligatory. This is ISO-8601 format, but can also be UNIX timestamp or YYY-mm-dd format
  }
};

Example call

kraken.listTransactions(latestTransaction, function (err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(data);
    console.log(data.length); // to see the number of transactions found
  }
});

Response on success

[
  {
    externalId: '1234-2345-3456-4567',
    timestamp: '2015-12-19T14:55:57.000Z',
    state: 'relayed',
    amount: 400000,       // Transaction of 4,000.00 USD
    currency: 'USD',
    type: 'deposit',      // Transaction type. Can be 'deposit' or 'withdrawal'
    raw: {}
  },
  {
    externalId: '2345-3456-457-5678',
    timestamp: '2015-12-20T12:16:54.000Z',
    state: 'completed',
    amount: -2000000000, // Transaction of 20 BTC
    currency: 'BTC',
    type: 'withdrawal',
    raw: {}
   }
   // ... more transactions
]

Sell & Buy limit order (in one method)

Place a limit BUY or SELL trade (order), depending on the sign of the baseAmount argument. SELL if amount is negative BUY if amount is positive

Input parameters

{int} baseAmount: The amount in base currency to buy or sell on the exchange; If negative amount, place sell limit order. If positive amount, place buy limit order. Denominated in smallest sub-unit of the base currency

{float} limitPrice: The minimum/maximum rate that you want to sell/buy for. If baseAmount is negative, this is the minimum rate to sell for. If baseAmount is positive, this is the maximum rate to buy for. limitPrice must always strictly positive

{string} baseCurrency: The exchange's base currency. For Kraken it is always BTC

{string} quoteCurrency: The exchange's quote currency. For Kraken it is always USD

Example call

kraken.placeTrade(-1250000, 460.00, 'BTC', 'USD', function (err, data) {
    if (err) {
        console.log(err);
    } else {
        console.log(data);
    }
});

Response on success

{
  type: 'limit',
  state: 'open',
  baseAmount: 123456789,  // Buy 1.23456789 BTC
  baseCurrency: 'BTC',    // Currency of the baseAmount
  quoteCurrency: 'USD',   // Currency of the quoteAmount
  limitPrice: 500.00,     // Buy bitcoins at a maximum price of 500 USD/BTC
  raw: {
    orderType: 'buy'      // will be 'sell' if 'baseAmount' is negative
  }
}

Enjoy!

Disclaimer

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