Lua

Bitfinex v2 REST Tickers

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The tickers endpoint provides a high level overview of the state of the market. It shows the current best bid and ask, the last traded price, as well as information on the daily volume and price movement over the last day. The endpoint can retrieve multiple tickers with a single query. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

-- Implements the following CURL command:

-- curl https://api-pub.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=tBTCUSD,tLTCUSD,fUSD

-- Use the following online tool to generate HTTP code from a CURL command
-- Convert a cURL Command to HTTP Source Code

local sbResponseBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
local success = http:quick_get_sb("https://api-pub.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=tBTCUSD,tLTCUSD,fUSD", sbResponseBody)
if not success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

local jarrResp = chilkat.JsonArray.new()
jarrResp:load_sb(sbResponseBody)
jarrResp.emit_compact = false

print("Response Body:")
print(jarrResp:emit())

local respStatusCode = http.last_status
print("Response Status Code = " .. respStatusCode)
if respStatusCode >= 400 then
    print("Response Header:")
    print(http.last_header)
    print("Failed.")
    return
end

-- Sample JSON response:
-- (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

-- [
--   [
--     "tBTCUSD",
--     9318.6,
--     21.53815472,
--     9318.7,
--     5.30463105,
--     223.5,
--     0.0246,
--     9318.7,
--     4125.21689058,
--     9370.998872,
--     9075.80199233
--   ],
--   [
--     "tLTCUSD",
--     44.008,
--     1807.8617840300003,
--     44.019,
--     2394.7625575100005,
--     2.359,
--     0.0566,
--     44.019,
--     27051.34115724,
--     44.16,
--     41.559
--   ],
--   [
--     "fUSD",
--     0.00022955068493150685,
--     0.000199,
--     30,
--     871597.2359141599,
--     0.0001962,
--     2,
--     67926.11558407999,
--     -0.00001146,
--     -0.0523,
--     0.00020757,
--     167542924.22214913,
--     0.00024,
--     0.00000299,
--     null,
--     null,
--     82649109.90968154
--   ]
-- ]

-- Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
-- Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
-- Generate Parsing Code from JSON

local jarr_1 = chilkat.JsonArray.new()
local j = 0
local count_j = 0
local strVal = ""

local i = 0
local count_i = jarrResp.size
while i < count_i do
    jarrResp:array_at2(i, jarr_1)
    j = 0
    count_j = jarr_1.size
    while j < count_j do
        strVal = jarr_1:string_at(j)
        j = j + 1
    end

    i = i + 1
end