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System

The System API provides general data on the full eToro System

Market Events

The Market Events method returns information on significant market events.

Try it

Request URL

https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents[?MinDate][&MaxDate][&Page][&PageSize]

Request parameters

MinDate (optional)

dateTime

Minimum date for events. In case it is omitted it will be 10 days

MaxDate (optional)

dateTime

Maximum date for events. In case it is missing the current timestamp will be used

Page (optional)

number

The current page. If omitted the default will by 1

PageSize (optional)

number

The pagesize. If omitted the default page size will be 10

Request headers

Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Response 200

The returned object contains the total number of market events in the requested interval, and an array of events according to the requested paging.

The following describes each item:

EventId	integer	The unique identifier of the event
EventDesc	string	Description of the event type
Occurred	datetime	Timestamp of the event
InstrumentId	int	The instrument ID of the event. A full list of instruments can be obtained from the Metadata/Instruments API
ChangePct	number	The change percent of the event
IntervalDesc	string	The interval which the event refers to
ChangeDesc	string	Change description, possible values may by percent change, dollar change, pip change
PrevRate	number	The baseline rate of which the event was calculated
CurrRate	number	The rate which triggered the event
DirectionDesc	string	The direction of a streak event, can be up or down
Duration	integer	The duration in days for a streak event

application/json

{
  "totalItems": 157,
  "items": [
    {
      "changePct": 1.52,
      "intervalDesc": "Daily",
      "changeDesc": "PercentChange",
      "prevRate": 17.61,
      "currRate": 17.88,
      "eventId": 5671,
      "eventDesc": "RateChange",
      "occurred": "2017-08-28T21:08:30.38Z",
      "instrumentId": 63
    },
   {
      "changePct": 17.46,
      "changeDesc": "PercentChange",
      "prevRate": 0,
      "currRate": 0,
      "eventId": 5618,
      "eventDesc": "Streak",
      "occurred": "2017-08-25T13:02:56.513Z",
      "instrumentId": 4188,
      "directionDesc": "Up",
      "duration": 4
    },
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents?MinDate={dateTime}&MaxDate={dateTime}&Page={number}&PageSize={number}"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["MinDate"] = "{dateTime}";
            queryString["MaxDate"] = "{dateTime}";
            queryString["Page"] = "{number}";
            queryString["PageSize"] = "{number}";
            var uri = "https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents");

            builder.setParameter("MinDate", "{dateTime}");
            builder.setParameter("MaxDate", "{dateTime}");
            builder.setParameter("Page", "{number}");
            builder.setParameter("PageSize", "{number}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "MinDate": "{dateTime}",
            "MaxDate": "{dateTime}",
            "Page": "{number}",
            "PageSize": "{number}",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"MinDate={dateTime}",
                         @"MaxDate={dateTime}",
                         @"Page={number}",
                         @"PageSize={number}",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'MinDate' => '{dateTime}',
    'MaxDate' => '{dateTime}',
    'Page' => '{number}',
    'PageSize' => '{number}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'MinDate': '{dateTime}',
    'MaxDate': '{dateTime}',
    'Page': '{number}',
    'PageSize': '{number}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.etoro.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/System/V1/MarketEvents?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'MinDate': '{dateTime}',
    'MaxDate': '{dateTime}',
    'Page': '{number}',
    'PageSize': '{number}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.etoro.com')
    conn.request("GET", "/System/V1/MarketEvents?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.etoro.com/System/V1/MarketEvents')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'MinDate' => '{dateTime}',
    'MaxDate' => '{dateTime}',
    'Page' => '{number}',
    'PageSize' => '{number}'
})

if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
else
    uri.query = query
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body