Read symbols

About

Retrieves symbols available on an account

For more information see Async api documentation

Request

In order to retrieve available symbols, your application needs to emit request event with the following payload.

Name	Type	Required	Description
type	string	Yes	request type, must be getSymbols if you want to retrieve available symbols
accountId	string	Yes	MetaTrader account id. You can retrieve account id from Web application after you add your MetaTrader account to our platform. The account id can also be obtained via Provisioning API
requestId	string	Yes	request id which your application must supply. Request id must be unique during an API connection
application	string		MetaApi application id. Default is RPC

Response

After executing your request the API server will emit response event with the following payload.

Name	Type	Required	Description
type	string	Yes	The value of this field will be response in the response to the above request
requestId	string	Yes	request id the response relates to
accountId	string	Yes	account id specified in the request
symbols	Array	Yes	List of symbols available

Code example

import ioClient from 'socket.io-client';

const socket = ioClient('https://mt-client-api-v1.new-york.agiliumtrade.ai', {
    path: '/ws',
    reconnection: false,
    query: {
        'auth-token': 'token'
    }
});

const request =  {
    accountId: '865d3a4d-3803-486d-bdf3-a85679d9fad2',
    type: 'getSymbols',
    requestId: '60440b68-f098-4f9e-b9d0-ec7149979ec9'
};

socket.on('connect', () => {
    socket.emit('request', request);
});

socket.on('response', response => {
  console.log(response);
});

socket.on('processingError', err => {
  console.error(err);
});

Response example

{
  "type": "response",
  "requestId": "60440b68-f098-4f9e-b9d0-ec7149979ec9",
  "accountId": "865d3a4d-3803-486d-bdf3-a85679d9fad2",
  "symbols": ["EURUSD", "AUDNZD"]
}