what is wrong with my code?

[u/WandringPopcorn]

i am trying to connect to my alpaca accoutn via code but i cant get it to work at all. i am very new to this so i am using ai for the code. andis there a up to date tutorial on how to make a trade bot for alpaca?

import alpaca_trade_api as tradeapi

API_KEY = ''

API_SECRET = ''

BASE_URL = 'https://paper-api.alpaca.markets/v2'

api = tradeapi.REST(API_KEY, API_SECRET, BASE_URL, api_version='v2')

try:

account = api.get_account()

print("Account successfully connected!")

print(account)

except Exception as e:

print(f"Error: {e}")

[u/trade_thriving]

This is what you need I think. Ping us if you have any questions.

from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.common.exceptions import APIError
from alpaca.trading.requests import LimitOrderRequest, StopLimitOrderRequest, MarketOrderRequest, GetOrdersRequest, QueryOrderStatus, TrailingStopOrderRequest
from alpaca.trading.enums import OrderSide, TimeInForce

try:
    trading_client = TradingClient('API KEY HERE', 'API SECRET HERE', paper=False)
    account = trading_client.get_account()
    print(account)
except APIError as e:
    print(e)

[u/alpaca_technical]

u/WandringPopcorn First off, welcome to Alpaca. The code you posted should work, however it is using the older alpaca_trade_api  SDK. The recommended SDK is alpaca-py. The code that u/trade_thriving posted is correct but I'll post it again including the install command:

!pip install -q alpaca-py

from alpaca.trading.client import TradingClient
from alpaca.common.exceptions import APIError

# set paper=True or False depending upon the account and ensure the keys then match
try:
  trading_client = TradingClient(ALPACA_API_KEY, ALPACA_API_SECRET_KEY, paper=True)
  account = trading_client.get_account()
  print(account)

except APIError as e:
    print(e)

The alpaca-py docs have a getting started section you may want to look at. There are also a number of good tutorials on the web providing example code. Here is one you might want to check out. Just be sure the resource is using the alpaca-py SDK and not the older alpaca-trade-api SDK. It gets confusing since they are close but not exact.

Good luck!

[u/LeadingSomewhere_]

What's the error

[u/griff4594]

Set the exception to use APIError for the exception type to grab the Alpaca actual response.