coinbase-cli
v1.2.2
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Commandline utility for trading cryptocurrencies on Coinbase
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coinbase-cli
This is a command-line utility that uses the Coinbase API to trade, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies.
On busy days, it has happened that the Coinbase website was down while its underlying API services still worked. This command-line tool is my emergency backup, so that I can trade when everyone else is. Of course, there are many other use cases for a command-line tool such as easily automating trading tasks or inspecting the prices.
Features
- Interactive mode: commands will nicely ask you to input them during command execution
- Non-interactive mode: specify all arguments on the command-line
- Commands (run
coinbase help <command>
for details):accounts
: list your coinbase accountsbuy
: buy crypto currency with fiat currencybuyprice
: shows the buy price for a given trade pairpaymentmethods
: list your coinbase payment methodssell
: sell crypto currency for fiat currencysellprice
: shows the sell price for a given trade pairspotprice
: shows the spot price for a given trade pairtime
: coinbase server current timewithdraw
: withdraw fiat currency
Disclaimer
Use this tool at your own risk. Program code can contain bugs - it's open source, so you can check it before you use it.
Installation & Preparation
- Install Node.JS
- Install coinbase-cli by running
npm install -g coinbase-cli
- Get your API key and API secret from the Coinbase website
- Go to Settings - API access and click the 'New API Key' button
- Ensure you set enough permissions on your key to do what you want to do with the coinbase CLI tool.
Optionally, you can have the CLI tool remember your API key and secret. They will be stored (un-encrypted) in a coinbase.json
file in your home directory.
If you skip this step, you will have to enter the keys with every command, or pass them on the command-line with every command.
coinbase set api-key "<YOUR_API_KEY>"
coinbase set api-secret "<YOUR_API_SECRET>"
Use
Getting Help
First of all, detailed instructions can be found by executing:
coinbase help
coinbase <command> help
Interactive and Non-interactive mode
For most commands, the tool has two modes: interactive and non-interactive. In interactive mode, you don't provide any command-line arguments except the command you would like to run. The tool then asks you questions on the information it needs.
To use interactive mode, simply type coinbase <command>
e.g.:
$ coinbase sell
Please choose an account by typing in its number:
1: name: BTC Wallet, id: 33452906-0ab7-596a-98bd-5923059312065, balance: 3.40000000 BTC, type: wallet
2: name: LTC Wallet, id: a3b02e94-73f8-557a-a553-5329056236542, balance: 0.94940530 LTC, type: wallet
>2
Please choose a payment method by typing in its number:
1: name: USD Wallet, id 453ebbdf-9d09-578f-8fec-532532634156, type: fiat_account, currency: USD
2: name: EUR Wallet, id 453ebbdf-9d09-578f-8fec-ecfd7e7fed17, type: fiat_account, currency: EUR
>2
Please enter the amount e.g. '30.5', or 'all' to sell all your LTC:
?all
Sell Order:
- amount : 0.94940530 LTC
- fee : 4.07 EUR
- subtotal : 273.08 EUR
- total : 269.01 EUR
- status : created
> Commit
Cancel
Done!
Press ESC
to cancel while the tool is asking for input. If there is only one option for a choice (e.g. you only have one wallet with a non-zero balance), then the tool won't ask you to choose, it will tell you what the value is.
The other option is to pass all necessary information on the command-line:
coinbase sell --account="a3b02e94-73f8-557a-a553-5329056236542" --payment-method="453ebbdf-9d09-578f-8fec-ecfd7e7fed17" --amount="all"
Troubleshooting
If you get the error request timestamp expired
, then your system clock is probably off by more than 30 seconds from the coinbase servers.
Run coinbase time
to get the time that Coinbase thinks it is.
License
License: MIT, see LICENSE file.
Change log
v1.2.2
- Update dependencies
v1.2.1
- Fix vulnerable dependencies
v1.2.0
- Add
accounts
command - Add
paymentmethods
command - Add
spotprice
command - Add
time
command - Add
withdraw
command
v1.1.0
- Add
buy
command - Add
buyprice
command
v1.0.0
- Initial version:
sell
andsellprice
commands