About

python-okx-async is an unofficial Python wrapper for the OKX exchange v5 API that comes with async support. The wrapper is an extension of the python-okx package, which supports synchronous REST requests and websocket streams.

Installation

To install the package, run

pip install python-okx-async

Quick start

Create an OKX account

• If you don't already have an OKX account, register for one on https://www.okx.com/account/register

Create API credentials

• Log into your OK account and select API keys in the user menu
• Click the + Create V5 API key button
• Follow the instructions to create API credentials (key, passhprase, secret)

Save API credentials

• If there isn't a .env file in your home directory, create one and make sure it can only be read and written to by you.

touch ~/.env
chmod 600 ~/.env

• Add the following lines to the .env file, replacing the text to the right of the equal signs with the credentials created above. Note that the credentials should NOT be enclosed in quotation marks.

OKX_API_KEY=<key>
OKX_API_PASSPHRASE=<passphrase>
OKX_API_SECRET=<secret>

API credentials are stored in a .env file for security reasons. It is not advisable to include API credentials directly in source code or to supply them as command line arguments.

Run examples

Import and instantiate the API wrapper class AsyncTradeAPI, which is used for order placement, as shown below. You may first need to run pip install python-dotenv to install the dotenv package on your system.

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from okx_async.AsyncTrade import AsyncTradeAPI

load_dotenv()

tradeAPI = AsyncTradeAPI(os.getenv("OKX_API_KEY"), os.getenv("OKX_API_SECRET"), os.getenv("OKX_API_PASSPHRASE"))

The other REST API classes can be instantiated similarly. Note that async classes are initialized with default arguments flag='1' and debug=True, i.e. async classes are by default in the OKX production environment and not in debug mode.

For a complete example see the example_order_book.py file included in the Github repository. The script prints the order book for the XCH-USDT spot market to a depth of 20 levels.

Also make sure to check out the documentation of python-okx, and the additional examples included in that repository.