How can I connect to the Coinbase Sandbox API

[nMaroulis]

How can I use the Rest Client to connect to Coinbase Sandbox API?

Thanks

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[ghost]

You do:

from coinbase.rest import RESTClient
from coinbase.websocket import WSClient,
http = RESTClient(
	api_key=key.api,
	api_secret=key.secret,
	timeout=5,
        base_url="api-sandbox.coinbase.com"
)
ws = WSClient(
	api_key=key.api,
	api_secret=key.secret,
	base_url="wss://ws-feed-public.sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com"
)

[nMaroulis]

Thanks for your answer @melukasz . I was unable to connect to the API. Maybe I'm confused about the sandbox API in general. I created an account here https://public-sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com/ and as a base_url I use the following https://api-public.sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com . I also found that I have to use an API key, Secret Key, Passphrase combination, but the coinbase.rest.RESTClient doesnt even have a passphrase argument.

[ghost]

Thanks for your answer @melukasz . I was unable to connect to the API. Maybe I'm confused about the sandbox API in general. I created an account here https://public-sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com/ and as a base_url I use the following https://api-public.sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com . I also found that I have to use an API key, Secret Key, Passphrase combination, but the coinbase.rest.RESTClient doesnt even have a passphrase argument.

O wow, I didn't know something like this exists https://public-sandbox.exchange.coinbase.com/ Thanks a lot!

[nMaroulis]

Just FYI I saw that the cbpro library does the trick, but it's really outdated, so I ended up using the requests library and send custom HTTP requests.

[ghost]

Och right, that sandbox is for buisness owners only :/

[timborden]

For anyone looking to connect to the sandbox, you can monkeypatch the BASE_URL constant:

import os

import coinbase.constants

coinbase.constants.BASE_URL = "api-sandbox.coinbase.com"

from coinbase.rest import RESTClient

client = RESTClient(
    api_key=os.environ.get('COINBASE_KEY'),
    api_secret=os.environ.get('COINBASE_SECRET'),
)

accounts = client.get_accounts()
print(accounts)

Hope that helps