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API Documentation

WebSocket API

Starting a stream

In order to start using WebSocket connect to wss://api-streaming-capital.backend-capital.com/connect . In order to keep the connection alive, ping service at least once every 10 minutes.

Streams available

marketData.subscribe

To subscribe to the price updates by mentioning the epics.
Note: the max number of epics = 40

Request:
{
 "destination": "marketData.subscribe",
 "correlationId": 1,
 "cst": "zvkT26****nsHKk",
 "securityToken": "g6K90****QKvCS7",
 "payload": {
 "epics": [
 "OIL_CRUDE"
 ]
 }
}
Response:
{
 "status": "OK",
 "destination": "marketData.subscribe",
 "correlationId": "1",
 "payload": {
 "subscriptions": {
 "OIL_CRUDE": "PROCESSED"
 }
 }
}

marketData.unsubscribe

To unsubscribe from the prices updates.

Request:
{
 "destination": "marketData.unsubscribe",
 "correlationId": 1,
 "cst": "zvkT26****nsHKk",
 "securityToken": "g6K90****QKvCS7",
 "payload": {
 "epics": [
 "OIL_CRUDE"
 ]
 }
}
Response:
{
 "status": "OK",
 "destination": "marketData.unsubscribe",
 "correlationId": "1",
 "payload": {
 "subscriptions": {
 "OIL_CRUDE": "PROCESSED"
 }
 }
}

Ping

To ping the service for keeping the connection alive.

Response:
 {
 "destination": "ping",
 "correlationId": 1,
 "cst": "zvkT26****nsHKk",
 "securityToken": "g6K90****QKvCS7"
 } 
Response:
{
 "status": "OK",
 "destination": "ping",
 "correlationId": "1",
 "payload": {}
}

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