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Interactive Brokers API and Web Application

We would like to add a feature to the site so that members can access their Interactive Broker account directly from our platform (API http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fsoftware%2Fibapi.php ).

I believe that Trade Work Station (TWS) should be up and running when using the API application.

I see that TWS has a GUI that accepts a single username and password (right?). I'm not sure how multiple users can connect, if that is true.

My question is: can I use the IB API to connect account owners through a third-party application?

Please inform.

thanks

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Now you can enable IB account owners to log in to IB from your website to connect your platform to the IB API. You can do this with Brokertron Gateway for IB ( http://www.brokertron.com/gateway/ ), which allows your users to NOT start manually and not use the TWS GUI (or IB Gateway).

However, your users still need to authenticate / log in to IB using their IB credentials (i.e. with an IB security device). But now your site (through the web API) can allow users to log in to IB so your platform can use the IB API.

I made an open source open source interface at https://github.com/castedo/brokertron-public so that you can integrate the HTML interface interface into your website (with a custom interface that calls the Brokertron gateway for IB Web API) .

  • Castedo Ellerman (Brokertron Gateway Developer for IB)
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Currently (as of February 2013) this is not possible: your application will have to connect to TWS via the API, you will have to manually launch TWS using client credentials (user ID, password, second token authentication, if applicable).

We considered providing a programming interface where third parties can offer our customers additional services similar to what you described, but at the time this did not justify our investment.

The best way forward is to send a feature request through our feature poll ( http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/?f=%2Fen%2Fgeneral%2Fpoll%2Findex.php ), describe your setup / objective and who you represent, and appreciate it well.

  • Dennis | Interactive brokers
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There is a reckless gateway for an interactive broker: https://github.com/ib-controller/ib-controller

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