MtGox API Perl module

[mndrix]

I've released Finance::MtGox which is a Perl interface for the MtGox API.  It's available from the CPAN and on GitHub.  It's basically the code I use in CoinPal factored out to a module so that I can reuse it in some upcoming projects.

One of my favorite features is a method for finding the market clearing rate.  A couple examples:

$rate = $mtgox->clearing_rate( 'asks', 20, 'BTC' );  # rate to buy 20 BTC
$rate = $mtgox->clearing_rate( 'bids', 42, 'USD' );  # rate to sell 42 USD worth of BTC

The code is licensed under the MIT license.

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[Cryptoman]

Excellent.  Thanks for releasing this.  Are you going to put a mention in the wiki?

[mndrix]

Excellent.  Thanks for releasing this.  Are you going to put a mention in the wiki?

Good idea.  I've mentioned it on the MtGox page on the wiki.

[BioMike]

I'm building a similar lib in python (hope to release that soon), but I have a question about placing an order and seeing if it got filled when I have multiple orders in my order list. Do I need to iterate through the whole list to see which orders got filled and which didn't?

Wouldn't it be more nice to have a transaction history with timestamps?

[seanadams]

I got this error:

Code:

Error GETing https://mtgox.com/code/data/getDepth.php: read failed:  at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Finance/MtGox.pm line 74

Fixed by changing both URLs to https://www.mtgox.com/.....

I think the problem with using just mtgox.com is the certificate won't match the hostname.

[beppu]

Damn, I should have searched the forum (and CPAN) before I made WebService::MtGox.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10125.0

I actually did search for 'bitcoin' at http://search.cpan.org/ and nothing MtGox-related showed up, so that's why I coded WebService::MtGox.  Had I known you already had this covered, I wouldn't have done my version.

You really need to have the word "bitcoin" somewhere in your documentation.

[mndrix]

I've updated Finance::MtGox to version 0.02.  This version supports MtGox's new authenticated API requests (the API known as "v0").  It doesn't yet support multiple currencies.

beppu, I've made a note for the next release to include the word "bitcoin" in the CPAN docs.

seanadams, I'm not able to reproduce the certificate problem you saw.  That might have been related to some DNS issues MtGox had around the time you posted.

[mndrix]

I've released Finance::MtGox version 0.03.  The biggest change is a patch from shockdiode to reduce memory usage when using the module in a long-running process.  There are also some minor cosmetic clean ups.

It should hit your favorite CPAN mirror shortly.