Web scraping and using APIs

[phildawson]

They have previously encouraged the use for personal reasons.

I made a Screener the other year using the API, in this forum I’ve posted ways to login with PHP and Guzzle.

Does trading212 have an API?

Easiest way is with Guzzle. [Screenshot 2020-11-20 at 14.40.04] use GuzzleHttp\Client; use GuzzleHttp\Cookie\CookieJar; private function postJSON($url, $payload) { $jar = CookieJar::fromArray( [ 'TRADING212_SESSION_LIVE' => $this->session ], 'trading212.com' ); $client = new Client(['cookies' => $jar]); $response = $client->post($url, ['json' => $payload,]); return json_decode($response->getBody(…