Small script that uses jq to check the success of an authenticated request to Binance API key with the API key and Secret used in a specific Freqtrade configuration file. Usage ./check_binance_authenticated_api_request.zsh path/to/your-ftbot-config-file.json

check_binance_authenticated_api_request.zsh

#!/bin/zsh

# Check if jq is installed
if ! command -v jq &> /dev/null; then
    echo "Error: jq is not installed. Please install it before continuing."
    exit 1
fi

# Check if a configuration file name is provided
if [[ -z $1 ]]; then
    echo "Error: Please provide the JSON configuration file name as a parameter."
    exit 1
fi

# Read API key and API secret from the specified configuration file
api_key=$(jq -r '.exchange.key' "$1")
api_secret=$(jq -r '.exchange.secret' "$1")

# Check if API key and API secret are present
if [[ -z $api_key || -z $api_secret ]]; then
    echo "Error: API key or API secret missing in the configuration file."
    exit 1
fi

# Define the API endpoint
api_url="https://api.binance.com/api/v3/account"

# Current timestamp in milliseconds
timestamp=$(($(date +%s%N) / 1000000))

# Concatenate API key and timestamp
query_string="timestamp=$timestamp"

# Calculate HMAC signature using openssl
signature=$(echo -n "$query_string" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hmac "$api_secret" | cut -d' ' -f2)

# Make the request to Binance authenticated API using curl
curl -H "X-MBX-APIKEY: $api_key" \
     -X GET \
     "$api_url?$query_string&signature=$signature"