Interactive Brokers Client Web Portal API with IBeam

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IBeam provides a Docker image that makes it easy to use the Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API Gateway. In this video, I show you how to get IBeam up and running, and make a few API requests using the Insomnia REST Client.

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[srinivastangella]

Finally my search come to an end ! Glad that I found your channel. Keep it up bro !

[alexeyluzin]

Hey Larry, thank you for the video! Any idea why we need to provide our IB username and password to docker container and then again do authentication via web form? Is it possible to get authenticated automatically on container start? Also, any idea if we can have our paper account authenticated here in Web API and TWS app at the same time, to get the possibility to control visually what's going on?

[FortunOfficial]

ZERO downvotes. I rarely see this lol. But totally deserved Larry! I'm just learning Python, and since it makes sense to add some automation to my discretionary trading system, I wanted to learn the IBKR APIs. I was stuck a lot when trying to use the Rest API, since this is a completely new concept to me. Thanks so much for this wonderful content! Gonna buy you a coffee :)

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[nattyzaddy]

Did you not notice you exposed your account id at 18:23

[weststampeder]

Thanks Great tutorial.... One question, perhaps your program seems to work with US IB accounts only... I've a Canadian account, when I run the docker, it takes me to the IB Portal, but doesn't accept the my Login Credentials, which otherwise works fine... any suggestions on how I can address it..
Thanks again..!

[rahultalanki]

Any one have automated web API of Interactive Brokers accourding to new documentation method?

[vbsaltydog]

How did you get 2FA working? In your video, the docker container gateway has a 2FA handler and the output clearly shows that it uses Selenium to wait for OAUTH to be successful. The current docker image does not do this, it simply says that there is no 2FA handler found.

[andrewflewelling]

Very helpful in moving my project along. Thank you.

[sgtsnakeeyes]

why can't they just make a rest api?

[sanjogbirla]

Thanks alot for sharing your knowledge...
Your efforts are making us go in right direction 👍
One question - IBeam once it is deployed, can it be used with backtrader right away or are there any changes we need to add ?

[kannansingaravelu]

Awesome! You always rock 👍 Any specific reason to go for linode as against digital ocean or aws?

[ogolovch]

Great video - thanks sharing Larry! How would one run a sample strategy? Thanks!

[redfoothedude]

Everything works for web api.... but I need to connect my python bot to the IB gateway via activeX and sockets. If I run IB gateway on my mac it works on port 4001 but when I run the docker Ibeam IB Gateway it will not connect, 504 error, on either port 5000 or 4001. please advise... thanks -foo

[VIjayRao-cr]

Great video, and IBeam works quite well. Wondering if you have been able to find how to pull options chains with greeks for a given underlying. I am really struggling to find that using IB Web API

[ogolovch]

Great video - thanks sharing Larry! How would one run a sample strategy? Thanks!

[SergiiStarodubtsev]

not sure. all my api calls end up with 401. hmm. i do not see any session id or cookie I have to provide.
also, i keep receiving sms even if idle (after successful login). maybe I downloaded beta version of ibeam.. . did not work

[ValerSvit]

Please give me an answer, because I have already searched for it myself and can not find an answer to the question: in the interactive brokers terminal I want to buy shares, at a certain moment when the price is higher than the market price, what type of order should I choose? For example, now the stock costs 10, and I want to buy at the moment when it reaches $ 12. Help me to understand. A related question: which order to use when I want to simultaneously include three different shares in the order and so that the one at which the price reaches the trigger point is bought and of them, while this trigger point is higher than the market one at the moment, and other orders were canceled? Thanks.

[Keskusrikospoliisi]

I don't understand what you need this gateway for. I'm connecting directly to their API.