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ardito.bryan
ardito.bryan

Reputation: 491

parsing Alpaca API objects into json

I am using the Alpaca API.

import alpaca_trade_api as tradeapi

api = tradeapi.REST('key1', 'key2', 'https://paper-api.alpaca.markets', 'v2')

#retrieve open positions
pos = api.list_positions()
pos

Output:

[Position({   'asset_class': 'us_equity',
     'asset_id': 'b0b6dd9d-8b9b-48a9-ba46-b9d54906e415',
     'avg_entry_price': '382.01',
     'change_today': '0.0025959042399769',
     'cost_basis': '382.01',
     'current_price': '382.36',
     'exchange': 'NASDAQ',
     'lastday_price': '381.37',
     'market_value': '382.36',
     'qty': '1',
     'side': 'long',
     'symbol': 'AAPL',
     'unrealized_intraday_pl': '0.35',
     'unrealized_intraday_plpc': '0.0009162063820319',
     'unrealized_pl': '0.35',
     'unrealized_plpc': '0.0009162063820319'})]

This has been my attempt:

pos[0]['asset_id']
>>>TypeError: 'Position' object is not subscriptable

How can I isolate the content stored in the Position object without transforming it into a string?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 772

Answers (2)

Jonathan Leon
Jonathan Leon

Reputation: 5648

Try this:

getattr(pos, 'asset_id')

I don't have positions, but it works the same as Asset:

a = api.get_asset('NFLX')
print(getattr(a, 'symbol'))

Upvotes: 0

DYZ
DYZ

Reputation: 57105

So many questions of this sort have been around in the past few days, I wonder what sparked so much interest in Alpaca. The answer is pos[0].asset_id: Alpaca objects have attributes, not keys.

Upvotes: 2

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