User and Secret

In order to connect to the API, you'll first need to make sure that you have a dedicated 'API user' set up. Contact Quantemplate Support to do that for you.

Once your API user has been created, you will be provided with the Client ID and the Client Secret by Quantemplate Support.

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Your Secret acts like a password - so be careful with it!

Authenticating

When you have your ID and Secret, you are ready to authenticate with the API.

Authentication consists of making a POST request to

https://accounts.prod.quantemplate.com/auth/realms/qt/protocol/openid-connect/token

with the request body:

{
  "grant_type": "client_credentials",
  "client_id": <your client id>,
  "client_secret": <your client secret>
}

This will return a JSON object with an access_token and refresh_token properties, among others. The access_token is what you will need to use when calling other API methods, and has a set expiry time (given, in seconds, by the expires_in property).

Example (Python 3)

This short script demonstrates how to retrieve your access token in Python 3. It requires the requests library.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import requests

user_id = ...
secret = ...

def authenticate(user_id, secret):
  return requests.post('https://accounts.prod.quantemplate.com/auth/realms/qt/protocol/openid-connect/token', data = {
    'grant_type': 'client_credentials',
    'client_id': user_id,
    'client_secret': secret
  }).json()

auth_result = authenticate(user_id, secret)

print(auth_result['access_token'])