Code artifacts included with this repository have been forked from the https://github.com/matthiaslinden/bitcoinDE_API repository. The API has been tested against Python 3.7 (especially a remote Python configuration using Docker). See the original repository for further details about implemented API client functionality.

• added Docker support
• fixed code issues (code has been aligned with PEP-8)
• fixed typos, and also removed informational comments
• adjusted OOP-design (made changes to inheritance) add event-sinks objects
• disabled ws1-endpoint, since this one does not seem to work without issues
• removed imprecise/noisy debug outputs
• adds support for event sinks to MultiSource
• adds a ZeroMQ PUB socket event sink (publishes message-packed events).
• adds commandline parsing capabilities to the WebSocket API application (defines --port argument for the ZeroMQ PUB socket server).

This ZeroMQ PUB socket feature turns the application into a WebSocket API proxy service that is easier to consume by other applications. It opens a ZeroMQ PUB socket server on port 5634 that does not use any topics. Any event aggregated by the MultiSource client gets published over the socket. Event data is encoded/packed using msgpack (see pack method in Event class). The message has the following format:

message = {
    "timestamp": int,  # indicates the unix-timestamp (utc, seconds) when the event has been aggregated
    "type": str,  #  the event type, for instance: add, rm, ..
    "id": str,
    "data": dict  # event-specific data
}

docker build -t bitcoindews-py -f Dockerfile .
docker run -d -p 5634:5634 bitcoindews-py

• Connect to ZeroMQ PUB socket using C# and NetMQ
• Connect to ZeroMQ PUB socket using Python and zmq