Proposal for HTML parser about dali-rp2 HOT 6 CLOSED

The quant trades are basically trades made by bots, 'quant' being short for quantitative. Either the trade is based on some kind of formula of market indicators or it's a simple grid trading bot or infinity grid bot or something like that. Basically, it is making 10~20 trades a day on your behalf, so it would help to automate that tracking.

The quant trades seem to be the main thing that is missing. I guess the people that use the bots don't do taxes? I have no idea why they wouldn't include this, and maybe they will in the future. I also use another exchange, Pionex, that doesn't have an API at all. They do allow you to request a csv of transactions but you have to email them, and even then you can only request it 3 times a quarter. It would be nice to just be able to parse this myself.

I can always just duct tape something together that will parse it into csv and then feed it through Dali, or simply use it as an unofficial plugin, but I thought I would ask.

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The problem with HTML scraping is that it's very fragile: as soon as a webmaster changes slightly the HTML code the scraping code can break. It's hard to build robust code based on HTML parsing. Can you share more about this gate.io limitation: what are quant trades and are they the only thing that is not available through their REST API?

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Thanks for the info: that's interesting. Strange that they wouldn't cover those transactions via REST or CSV... I think the strategy you outlined is probably the best: have a side script outside of DaLI that generates a CSV for the manual plugin from the native HTML.

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One more question: have you tried contacting their customer support about the missing REST API functionality (if they have a Twitter handle, maybe do it directly on social media)? Perhaps you can put pressure on them to add the missing part. I imagine you're not their only customer hitting this problem.

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I did try contacting them and didn't get a solid response. I just kept getting passed off to other people. It's not such a big concern of mine since everything I have on there is hobby mining income, which will have a $0 basis price anyway since I'm probably not going to bother writing off my equipment / energy costs.

For the Pionex exchange, I can just use the CSV they give me and hope they implement an API in the future so I can get more immediate data.

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I'll work out something on my own. Thanks for your input.

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