bfx-cli

Bitfinex Trading CLI Interface

Thin wrapper around the examples included with the official Bitfinex Node.JS API library that provides a CLI interface for specifying parameters and rendering of results.

Can be configured with API credentials that are encrypted locally on disk pull or them from the environment.

Features

• Cross platform (Linux, MacOS, and Windows)
• Uses the official library for all tasks
• Encrypted credential storage in ~/.bfxclirc
• Nearly full API method coverage
  • Data feed streaming
  • Order execution
  • Order & position manipulation
  • Wallet transfers
  • Platform status reporting
  • And more!

Installation

npm i -g bfx-cli

To configure your API credentials, run bfx-cli credentials

Usage

Run bfx-cli from a terminal to see a list of available commands:

bfx-cli credentials                       Configure API credentials
bfx-cli watch-liquidations                Monitor the liquidations feed
bfx-cli watch-candles <market> <tf>       Monitor a candle feed
bfx-cli watch-trades <market>             Monitor a trade feed
bfx-cli watch-order-book [market]         Render a live order book
bfx-cli margin-info                       Fetch and display margin information
bfx-cli transfer <q> <ccy> <s> <d>        Transfer between wallets
bfx-cli balances                          Fetch and display wallet balances
bfx-cli positions                         Fetch & display all open positions
bfx-cli order-history <market>            Fetch order history
bfx-cli trade-history <market>            Fetch trade history
bfx-cli close [market]                    Close open position(s)
bfx-cli claim [market]                    Claim open position(s)
bfx-cli order                             Submit an order
bfx-cli currencies                        Fetch & display all available currencies
bfx-cli tickers [market]                  Fetch and display one or multiple tickers
bfx-cli cancel                            Cancel all open orders
bfx-cli orders [market]                   Fetch & display all open orders
bfx-cli status                            Query platform status
bfx-cli download-candles <market> <tf>    Download a candle dataset
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bfx-cli download-trades <market> <count>  Download a trade dataset
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Configuring

To configure bfx-cli, run bfx-cli configure and follow the instructions. Alternatively, you can supply credentials on the environment with the API_KEY and API_SECRET env variables.

The following extra environment variables are supported:

• WS_URL - optional Bitfinex WSv2 endpoint URL
• REST_URL - optional Bitfinex RESTv2 endpoint URL
• SOCKS_PROXY_URL - optional local socksv4 proxy URL to use for both RESTv2 & WSv2 transports

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request