(Visual Basic 6.0) Bitfinex v2 REST Tickers

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.

For more information, see https://docs.bitfinex.com/reference#rest-public-tickers

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

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

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp
Dim success As Long

' 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

Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = http.QuickGetSb("https://api-pub.bitfinex.com/v2/tickers?symbols=tBTCUSD,tLTCUSD,fUSD",sbResponseBody)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim jarrResp As New ChilkatJsonArray
success = jarrResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jarrResp.EmitCompact = 0

Debug.Print "Response Body:"
Debug.Print jarrResp.Emit()

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = http.LastStatus
Debug.Print "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print http.LastHeader
    Debug.Print "Failed."
    Exit Sub
End If

' 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

Dim jarr_1 As ChilkatJsonArray
Dim j As Long
Dim count_j As Long
Dim strVal As String

Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim count_i As Long
count_i = jarrResp.Size
Do While i < count_i
    Set jarr_1 = jarrResp.ArrayAt(i)
    j = 0
    count_j = jarr_1.Size
    Do While j < count_j
        strVal = jarr_1.StringAt(j)
        j = j + 1
    Loop

    i = i + 1
Loop