def get_starting_time(self, symbol: str):
# hard-code few common symbols
if symbol == 'BTCUSD':
return jh.date_to_timestamp('2015-08-01')
elif symbol == 'ETHUSD':
return jh.date_to_timestamp('2016-01-01')
payload = {
'sort': 1,
'limit': 5000,
}
response = requests.get(self.endpoint +
'/trade:1D:t{}/hist'.format(symbol),
params=payload)
if response.status_code != 200:
raise Exception(response.content)
data = response.json()
# wrong symbol entered
if not len(data):
raise exceptions.SymbolNotFound(
"No candle exists for {} in Bitfinex. You're probably misspelling the symbol name."
.format(symbol))
first_timestamp = int(data[0][0])
second_timestamp = first_timestamp + 60_000 * 1440
return second_timestamp
def get_starting_time(self, symbol: str):
dashless_symbol = jh.dashless_symbol(symbol)
# hard-code few common symbols
if symbol == 'BTC-USD':
return jh.date_to_timestamp('2015-08-01')
elif symbol == 'ETH-USD':
return jh.date_to_timestamp('2016-01-01')
payload = {
'sort': 1,
'limit': 5000,
}
response = requests.get(f"{self.endpoint}/trade:1D:t{dashless_symbol}/hist", params=payload)
if response.status_code != 200:
raise Exception(response.content)
data = response.json()
# wrong symbol entered
if not len(data):
raise exceptions.SymbolNotFound(
f"No candle exists for {symbol} in Bitfinex. You're probably misspelling the symbol name."
)
# since the first timestamp doesn't include all the 1m
# candles, let's start since the second day then
first_timestamp = int(data[0][0])
second_timestamp = first_timestamp + 60_000 * 1440
return second_timestamp
