Binary Bot

Visual automation for binary bot- bot.binary.com

Binary Bot uses Google Blockly to provide a puzzle like automation environment to trade using binary.com API version 3.

Pre-installation

Ensure that your environment contains the following packages.

 - node
 - npm
 - git (for contribution)

Installation

1. Setup the project on local machine

In order to work with Binary-Bot application, you must create your own version of this project. Please fork the project - https://github.com/binary-com/binary-bot to your git account.

You will need to perform the following on your development machine:

1. Change the current working directory to the location where you want the cloned directory.

2. Clone the forked repo using git clone [URL for the forked repo]

3. Run cd binary-bot

4. Create a feature branch from master - git checkout -b [branchName].

5. Run npm install

   Note: - issue with installing packages

2. Configuring Hosts file

In order to run our application for the first time, you need to configure your hosts file:

If you are using a UNIX based system (Mac or Linux), Do the following:

1. Open terminal.
2. Open hosts file in your preferred text editor using sudo vim /etc/hosts.
3. Add a new entry pointing to 127.0.0.1 localbot.binary.sx
4. Save the file

For Windows:

1. Run Microsoft Notepad as an administrator.

2. From Notepad, open the file: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts

3. Add a new entry pointing to 127.0.0.1 localbot.binary.sx

4. Save the file

3. Preparing environment variables

If you want to use Google Drive features in the project (to Save/Load strategies) you need to create a file called .env at the project root with the following content:

GD_CLIENT_ID=GOOGLE_DRIVE_CLIENT_ID
GD_API_KEY=GOOGLE_DRIVE_API_KEY
GD_APP_ID=GOOGLE_DRIVE_APP_ID

Here comes useful links for more information on how to configure your project with Google Drive integration:

• Enabling the Google Drive API
• Creating API Key
• Generating Client ID

4. Starting a Development Server

Make sure to set the endpoint for running the application on the localhost

1. Run npm start on the binarybot directory. This will open the application in your default browser.

   Note: - Getting Permission Denied Error

2. Now we have to set the endpoint for running the application on the localhost. For this, Go to http://localbot.binary.sx/endpoint.html. Make sure the Server is set to blue.binaryws.com and O Auth App ID is 16014 Click submit.

3. Navigate to http://localbot.binary.sx/bot.html (Note that the protocol is http and not https)

   Note: - Getting error "This site can’t be reached" on localhost

4. And now you are ready with your setup.Login to the binary account using the Binary.com account credentials. Run the bot

Pushing changes to github

1. Make your changes to the source code
2. Run test command to make sure your changes are correct npm run test
3. Push your changes to your forked repo:

git add .
git commit -m "describe your changes"
git push origin BRANCH_NAME

Deploying to local gh-pages

You can set up your GitHub Pages to deploy your repository.

1. First you need to set up custom domain. Go to https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/binary-bot/settings/pages and set your custom domain to YOUR_GITHUB_NAME.binary.sx

2. Run the command below in your project directory.

npm run release --branch [branchname] # can contain /

3. Now, your repository can be found at https://YOUR_CUSTOM_DOMAIN/BRANCH_NAME

Deployment/Release

gulp test-deploy # for local test deploy
npm run release --branch <branch-name> # to deploy a branch (eg., beta)
npm run release-production # to release it to production

To update to latest version

git pull --rebase upstream master
npm install

Running the CLI command

npm i -g binary-bot
bot -h // For a quick help
bot bot-example.js

Running with a specific endpoint Use only if you know what you're doing

ENDPOINT='wss://ws.binaryws.com/websockets/v3?l=en&app_id=1169' bot bot-example.js

CLI examples:

speed-test.js

Think you found a bug?

There's a chance that we already know about it and doing our best to fix it. To find out you can search our GitHub issues

Not satisfied yet? Please create a new issue, and explain to us what is the nature of the problem and how to reproduce here

We'd love to hear from you

Please send us your inquiries through [email protected]

Sample Blocks

You can find some example blocks in the Examples folder.

Disclaimer: All the files and codes in the above links are intended for educational and informational purposes only. They should not be construed as giving investment advice, and you should not rely on them as your singular factor in making or refraining from making any investment decisions. Binary.com accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses incurred by users in their trading. Binary options trading may incur losses as well as gains.

FAQ

1. Issue with installing packages

If you couldnt install binary bot with a different node version, try cleaning npm cache.

• To clear a cache in npm, we need to run the npm cache clean --force command in our terminal.
• Delete cache directory. The default cache directory is ~/.npm on Posix (mac or linux), or %AppData%/npm-cache on Windows.
• Run rm -rf ~/.npm
• Run npm install

2. Getting Permission Denied Error on localhost

Try sudo npm startinstead of npm start

3. Cannot access the site

Make sure to use HTTP instead of HTTPS: https://localbot.binary.sx/bot.html => http://localbot.binary.sx/bot.html