Kraken Trading API
Order placement, edit, and cancellation
Kraken Trading API is one of 24 APIs that Kraken publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Trading. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 14 operations across 14 paths, and defines 20 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 3.0.0.
Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://futures.kraken.com/derivatives/api/v3, https://demo-futures.kraken.com/derivatives/api/v3, https://colo-london.vip.futures.kraken.com/derivatives/api/v3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Kraken Trading API declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
An API key is passed in the header as APIKey (futures_signature).
futures_signature— Kraken Futures signs requests with two headers: APIKey (public key) and Authent (base64 HMAC-SHA512 over postData + nonce + endpointPath using the SHA-256 hash…
Paths & Operations 14
Across 14 paths, the API surfaces 14 operations — 14 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Order placement, edit, and cancellation
Schemas 20
The contract defines 20 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SendOrderRequest (11 properties), EditOrderFuturesRequest (7 properties), BaseEnvelope (3 properties), BaseEnvelope_2 (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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