Introducing Kite Connect Personal APIs — Free APIs for personal use

Matti

We are excited to announce the launch of Kite Connect Personal, a new offering that gives you free access to your Zerodha account with all the essential features of Kite Connect, minus the market data (both real-time and historical). You can place orders, track your positions, holdings, and funds with Kite Connect Personal as long as you have a source for market data.

To get started, simply create a new Personal app on the Developer Console, and get started!

krishkalyani

It's good news, Postback url option doesn't exist then how do we get realtime order updates

venu_kite

I have created a personal account but I didnt get a secret key generated.

krishkalyani

Hi Please ignore the my previous message. I gree with venu, secret key is not available

ashutoshsahu

I also don't see the api secret

Anony

Does not work yet.

Matti

We're checking this.

priyesh

when secret key's issue will be fixed ?

ravisw82

I created personal app, it has created API key, but API secret is not generated.

Vivek

Do check now, it should show up.

ravisw82

Yes, now it is showing up, Thanks Vivek

krishkalyani

Its Working now

krishkalyani

@Matti

Its really appreciate Kite Team on bringing free version for personal use.

As a developer to place an new order or updating trailing stop loss we are using LTP prices for securing price fluctuations for New Order / Modify Order. I think at least GetLTP , Get MarketQuote API would requires to start use Personal Kite API.

I have checked GetLTP , Get MarketQuote API both are returning errors as "Insufficient permission for that call", Can you please discuss with your team to add these two API calls to Personal Use API

amman777

@krishkalyani
I Totally agree with you, atleast we should get GetLTP in this free version

Matti

Hey @krishkalyani @amman777, it isn't scalable to offer data for free. There is a cost to maintaining the infrastructure to offer these APIs and data is quite a large part of that cost.

abhi_shah

Hey @Matti
This is great!
Does the Personal API support websocket order updates?

v4vikash

Login is not working with the personal api key.

```
{
"status": "error",
"message": "Invalid `api_key`.",
"data": null,
"error_type": "InputException"
}
```

EDIT: It started working after a bit of time.

krishkalyani

@Matti ,

It's our request only. Having ltp price would help for quick trades. Without ltp price one should have enter price manually from our own UI, this will lead no use of personal API for intraday traders and company wont get brokerage for each trade in automation.

I can understand this is business descision. Thanks for your reply.

Will continue with monthly chargeable subscription

Thanks

HF3810

Receiving error while trying to generate token

{"status":"error","message":"Invalid `api_key`.","data":null,"error_type":"InputException"}

Matti

Try changing the app status to "Paused" and back to active. Should fix this for you. We're looking into why it happened in the first place.

newtrader1

Please give LTP at reduced price.
Thanks

SharadKothari

Apart from: Kiteticker, kite.quote and kite.historical_quote, which command will not work in personal.

If everything else works, that I might have just one connect account for multiple accounts in the family.

Matti

Everything else indeed works, @SharadKothari

enigmaticvision

I get error while connecting through "personal" of Zerodha

error is as below : {"status":"error","message":"Invalid `api_key`.","data":null,"error_type":"InputException"}

Code used:
from kiteconnect import KiteConnect
import pandas as pd

api_key = "ycavr5szpoa6nzmp"
api_secret = "r7sp4mvujmos2lcwhbrpywj3miebdgii"
kite = KiteConnect(api_key=api_key)
print(kite.login_url())

URL :
https://kite.zerodha.com/connect/login?api_key=ycavr5szpoa6nzmp&v=3

NOTE : API key and api_secret is not correct here intentionally . I used correct one in my code

impratikthakkar

what are the best use cases of personal api (without market data) that you have come across?

impratikthakkar

is it possible to post orders from tradingview to zerodha using personal API?

chinmay227

@impratikthakkar yes, you can use webhooks to send alerts, which can be used to send a buy or sell order based on your strategy. you also wouldn't need to get Connect for this as your data source would be tradingview

niksya

@v4vikash How much time did it take ? Facing same issue for more than 2-3 hours.
@enigmaticvision were you able to solve this ? If yes could you please share steps involved ?

I was able to solve by pausing and marking active again. Thanks!

Glen

Hey how do I change the type of the current app from "Kite connect + Historical Chart data" to just "Kite connect"? Do I need to delete this existing app and create a new one? There's not other option to just change the type?

Sravanthi_bh

You can continue using the app until the subscription expires while simultaneously you can create the app with a Personal API.

chpadma

Facing this issue when I tried free API,

raise exp(data["message"], code=r.status_code)
kiteconnect.exceptions.TokenException: Token is invalid or has expired.

The error is coming at line

            session = broker.generate_session(requestToken, api_secret=appSecret)

I am passing the new requestToken I got from url, then new appSecret.

sujith

@chpadma,
Are you sure you are using the right api_key and app_secret? Please create a new thread for the issues, it may help others who are looking for similar solution. Don't hijack existing threads.

bhaskarsancheti

Hi, I am getting an error message Login Failed! error: route not found - getting this error on stoxxo an execution platform, but not having any issues with paid api login on the same software.

akraghavendran

nice feature addition. Thank you

sujith

@bhaskarsancheti,
Are you getting this after login or before that?

PS: Please create a new thread for the issues, it may help others who are looking for similar solution. Don't hijack existing threads.