README
Deprecation Notice
A new python SDK, Alpaca-py, is available. This SDK will be the primary python SDK starting in 2023. We recommend moving over your code to use the new SDK. Keep in mind, we will be maintaining this repo as usual until the end of 2022.
alpaca-trade-api-python
alpaca-trade-api-python is a python library for the Alpaca Commission Free Trading API.
It allows rapid trading algo development easily, with support for
both REST and streaming data interfaces. For details of each API behavior,
please see the online API document.
Note that this package supports only python version 3.7 and above.
Install
We support python>=3.7. If you want to work with python 3.6, please note that these package dropped support for python <3.7 for the following versions:
pandas >= 1.2.0
numpy >= 1.20.0
scipy >= 1.6.0
The solution - manually install these packages before installing alpaca-trade-api. e.g:
pip install pandas==1.1.5 numpy==1.19.4 scipy==1.5.4
Also note that we do not limit the version of the websockets library, but we advise using