Quickstart

Getting your API information

TD Ameritrade for developer | Getting Started

This is a good guide on how to get your API information

Storing your API information

Make sure you are using python 3.6 or greater. We also highly recommend using python-dotenv to keep your to store your API information. To do this, create a .env file with the REFRESH_TOKEN, CONSUMER_KEY, and ACCOUNT_ID variables and.

REFRESH_TOEKN=""
CONSUMER_KEY=""
ACCOUNT_ID=""

Then you can install python-dotenv with

$ python3.7 -m install python-dotenv

Basic setup

First install the python package

$ python3.7 -m install td-ameritrade-api

Then you have to initialize a client object with your refresh token, API consumer key, and your account id. Then you can access all of the APIs functions.

from dotenv import load_dotenv
import td_ameritrade_api as td
from os import getenv

load_dotenv()
client = td.client(getenv("REFRESH_TOKEN"), getenv("CONSUMER_KEY"), getenv("ACCOUNT_ID"))

print(client.quote("AAPL"))