ibeam VS ib_insync

Consider IBeam for authenticating with the IBKR API and maintaining it authenticated. It's Docker image, you just run it parallel to your trading app.

ps. I also have a couple of other open source libraries: for scheduled data flow (Databay) and for algo trading (IBeam).

One thing that isn't entirely clear is that you have to install a Java-based "gateway" on your local network and proxy all API access through that. Their website claims that it's headless, but it really isn't. I asked CS about that once and it seems that "headless" does not mean what we think it means. There are multiple projects that try to bridge the definitions, with varying degrees of success. I use Voyz/ibeam FWIW.

For logging in and keeping the session alive you might want to look into using ibeam. I wrote my own version before coming across ibeam and have been using that successfully. I should note that I have a private fork with a bunch of additional fixes so let me know if you're interested in trying it out and I'll push those.

Not personally tried, but Im running on ARM and while i was looking at using IB i was looking at using https://github.com/Voyz/ibeam as a docker container.

I recently built a library called IBeam that handles the CP Gateway authentication - consider giving it a shot 😊

Bit late to the party, but I thought I'd mention IBeam - it handles the authentication and maintaining the CP Web Gateway running. The `areed1192/interactive-broker-python-api` you linked u/TankorSmash has useful Python handlers for various API endpoints, but in my experience it doesn't handle the CP Web Gateway authentication and maintenance well.

Hey it's Voyz here - thanks u/dlevac for sharing IBeam :)

Thank you Good-Educator 😊 Unfortunately you still need to perform that, although there is some discussion into automating that too using an automated SMS postbox and a server that stores the passcode. Have a look at this issue: https://github.com/Voyz/ibeam/issues/8

Python? Then you can try: https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync

It depends on you programming ability. Ibinsync is a good wrapper for their API though.

After some time learning the IB API, I've found the free / open source library IB_INSYNC a helpful addition making the IB TWS API easier to use from Python: https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync

look at ib_insync. This python library is written from scratch to work with IB gateway. Unfortunately you will have to package the IB gateway with this. The headless version is way too broken to be useful. https://github.com/erdewit/ib_insync

Using Python, you can pull data from the Yahoo! Finance API 2 for free, and from IBKR's API for not-free (ib-insync is good for this). This will be a bit more work than using a plug-and-play backtester but it will give you complete control over your parameters.

The other option would be to use IBGateway. I also recall that there are utilities to manage login with IBGateway as well. The problem here is that I had a look at the IB python API and it seems awful. But perhaps ib_insync solves most of those issues? I did all this research a while back and seem to recall that ib_insync doesn't rely on the IB python code at all, right?

Interactive Brokers has an API. You can use IB_insync to access it with Python.