Authentication

There are two methods of authenticating on a Websocket connection.

• Authenticate Per-Connection

• Authenticate Per-Message

• Authenticate One-Off Signature

Authenticate Per-Connection

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In order to send authenticated requests over the websocket connection, you will have to send an auth message.

{
  "op": "auth",
  "data": {
    "key": `[Insert API key]`,
    "secret": `[Insert API secret]`
  }
}

// Code Example

import os
import json
import asyncio
import websockets


async def main():
    connection = await websockets.connect("wss://ws-testnet.aevo.xyz")

    auth_msg = json.dumps({
        "op": "auth",
        "data": {
            "key": os.environ["API_KEY"],
            "secret": os.environ["API_SECRET"],
        }
    })
    await connection.send(auth_msg)
    await connection.recv()  # receive the outcome of authentication here

    msg = json.dumps({"op": "status"})

    await connection.send(msg)

    print(await connection.recv())


asyncio.run(main())

Authenticate Per-Message

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👍 Keep your API secret safe!

Using signature is a safer method of authenticating since your API secret is not passed along in the requests. This prevents potential API secret leakage during transport.

To authenticate with this method, the following fields should be sent with the request:

{
  "auth": {
    "timestamp": `[Insert UNIX timestamp in nanoseconds]`,
    "signature": `[Insert HMAC SHA256 signature]`,
    "key": `[Insert API key]`
  }
}

• signature is generated by performing HMAC_SHA256(apiSecret, message).

• message is a concatenation of apiKey,timestamp,ws,op,data with comma separation.

• timestamp is UNIX timestamp in nanoseconds.

• ws is a string constant with the value "ws". Must be lowercase.

• apiKey, timestamp, ws, op, data are all required. If the request does not have any data, use a blank space for the value of data.

Example:

• apiKey: API_KEY

• timestamp: 1673425955575713842

• op: "status"

• ws: "ws"

• data: ""

signature = HMAC_SHA256("API_KEY,1673425955575713842,ws,status,")

📘 Note!

There is a trailing comma in the message, since the data of "status" op request is empty.

# Code Example

import os
import time
import json
import hmac
import hashlib
import asyncio
import websockets

API_KEY = os.environ['API_KEY']
API_SECRET = os.environ['API_SECRET']


def get_auth_payload(op, data):
    timestamp = str(time.time_ns())

    # If the body is empty, it would look like:
    # concat = 'API_KEY,1673425955575713842,ws,status,'
    concat = f"{API_KEY},{timestamp},ws,{op},{data}".encode("utf-8")
    
    signature = hmac.new(API_SECRET.encode("utf-8"), concat,
                         hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()

    auth_payload = {
        "timestamp": timestamp,
        "signature": signature,
        "key": API_KEY,
    }

    return auth_payload


async def main():
    connection = await websockets.connect("wss://ws-testnet.aevo.xyz")

    msg = json.dumps({"op": "status", "auth": get_auth_payload("status", "")})

    await connection.send(msg)

    print(await connection.recv())


asyncio.run(main())

Authenticate One-Off Message

In order to send authenticated requests over the websocket connection, you will have to send an auth message.

{
  "op": "auth",
  "data": {
    "timestamp": `[Insert UNIX timestamp in nanoseconds]`,
    "signature": `[Insert HMAC SHA256 signature]`,
    "key": `[Insert API key]`
  }
}

• signature is generated by performing HMAC_SHA256(apiSecret, message).

• message is a concatenation of apiKey,timestamp,ws,op,data with comma separation.

• timestamp is UNIX timestamp in nanoseconds.

• ws is a string constant with the value "ws". Must be lowercase.

• apiKey, timestamp, ws, op, data are all required. If the request does not have any data, use a blank space for the value of data.

Example:

• apiKey: API_KEY

• timestamp: 1673425955575713842

• op: "auth"

• ws: "ws"

• data: ""

import hmac
import hashlib
import time
import json
import websockets
import asyncio


API_KEY = os.environ['API_KEY']
API_SECRET = os.environ['API_SECRET']
 

WS_URL = "wss://ws-testnet.aevo.xyz"

def ws_signature(key: str, secret: str, op: str, body: str) -> dict:
    """
    Build the auth payload for a single websocket message.

    The string that is HMAC-ed has the form
        "<key>,<timestamp>,ws,<op>,<body>"
    where
        timestamp = Unix-nano (int64)   e.g. 1673425955575713842
        body = raw JSON text (may be "")

    Returns the JSON dict you can embed under the "auth" field.
    """
    ts_ns = str(time.time_ns())

    concat = f"{key},{ts_ns},ws,{op},{body}"
    sig = hmac.new(secret.encode(), concat.encode(), hashlib.sha256).hexdigest()

    return {
        "timestamp": ts_ns,
        "signature": sig,
        "key": key,
    }

async def main():
    async with websockets.connect(WS_URL) as ws:
        op = "auth"
        body = ""

        msg = {
            "op": op,
            "data": ws_signature(API_KEY, API_SECRET, op, body),
        }

        await ws.send(json.dumps(msg))
        print(await ws.recv())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

Authenticating as a Subaccount

Your main account's API key can bind a connection to one of its subaccounts. Add subaccount to the auth data (or to the per-message auth object), and with signed authentication append it to the signed message as a sixth field: apiKey,timestamp,ws,op,data,subaccount.

See Subaccounts for the exact formats.