Python example code for an authenticated call to Bitfinex API v1

bitfinex-python.py

import requests  # pip install requests
import json
import base64
import hashlib
import time #for nonce

api_key = ''
api_secret = ''

#url = 'https://bitfinex.com/api/v1/order/new'
url = 'https://bitfinex.com/api/v1/balances'

payloadObject = {
           'request':'/api/v1/balances',
           'nonce':time.time(),
           'options':{}
           }

#payload = {
#            'request':'/v1/'
#            }

# payload buyorder, btcusd 100 @ $1.00
# payload = { 
#            'request':'/v1/order/new',
#            'nonce':time.time(),
#            'options' : {'symbol':'btcusd',
#             'amount':'100.00000000',
#             'price':'1.00',
#             'exchange':'bitfinex',
#             'side':'buy',
#             'type':'limit'}
#            }

payload_json = json.dumps(payloadObject)
print payload_json

payload = str(base64.b64encode(payload_json))
print payload

m = hashlib.sha384(api_secret).update(payload).hexdigest()

# headers
headers = {
           'X-BFX-APIKEY' : api_key,
           'X-BFX-PAYLOAD' : base64.b64encode(payload_json),
           'X-BFX-SIGNATURE' : m
           }

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)

Good! Thank you!

@BitcoinResearch

I've tried your code, but it is not working. Actually the response code it gets is 200 but the content is not right. Would you help me?

My code is like this:

import requests
import json
import base64
import hashlib
import time
import hmac

bitfinexURL = 'https://api.bitfinex.com/'
bitfinexKey = 'key'
bitfinexSecret = b'secret' #the b is deliberate, encodes to bytes

def start():
    print("BitFinex")
    payloadObject = {
            'request':'v1/order/new',
            'nonce':str(int(time.time()*1000000)), #convert to string
            'options':{'symbol':'tIOTUSD',
                     'amount':'100.00',
                     'price':'0.98500',
                     'exchange':'bitfinex',
                     'side':'buy',
                     'type':'limit'}
    }

    payload_json = json.dumps(payloadObject)
    print("payload_json: ", payload_json)

    payload = base64.b64encode(bytes(payload_json, "utf-8"))
    print("payload: ", payload)

    m = hmac.new(bitfinexSecret, payload, hashlib.sha384)
    m = m.hexdigest()

    #headers
    headers = {
          'X-BFX-APIKEY' : bitfinexKey,
          'X-BFX-PAYLOAD' : base64.b64encode(bytes(payload_json, "utf-8")),
          'X-BFX-SIGNATURE' : m
    }

    r = requests.get(bitfinexURL, data={}, headers=headers)
    print('Response Code: ' + str(r.status_code))
    print('Response Header: ' + str(r.headers))
    print('Response Content: '+ str(r.content))