# Announcing the Trading API **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [November 13, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/announcing-the-trading-api/3424 "2017-11-13T14:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrosseel](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/mrosseel/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@mrosseel](https://bisq.community/u/mrosseel)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 2:14pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/announcing-the-trading-api/3424/1 "2017-11-13T14:14:05Z")
Hi all, First some terminology: there’s already a **‘Markets API’** , which provides Bisq market data (price, volume, …) to 3rd party sites such as [Coin Dance](http://coin.dance). What’s being announced today is the **‘Trading API’** , which is a HTTP API used to programmatically control a running Bisq instance. Use cases include automation of bitcoin/alt trades, market making, gathering offer information, etc. If you want to see it in action, see this [example video](https://youtu.be/SkPT8bLOYtE). [The API reference doc](https://mrosseel.github.io/bisq-api-examples/) is generated from the source code and is a very good starting point to get an idea of the functionality. If you [check out the bisq-api repo](https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api) you can start a Bisq instance with the API enabled. Have a look at some generated examples in (currently) Java, PHP, Go, Python, Javascript in [the examples repo](https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api-examples). \*\*Please test it, ask help, submit issues, submit PR’s ! \*\* Link Overview: - API github repo: [https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api](https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api) - API definition: [https://mrosseel.github.io/bisq-api-examples/](https://mrosseel.github.io/bisq-api-examples/) - API examples: [https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api-examples](https://github.com/mrosseel/bisq-api-examples) ---
**Author:** ![pleia](https://bisq.community/letter_avatar/pleia/32/5_5575768a8748004e209b776fc1b2916d.png) [@pleia](https://bisq.community/u/pleia)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 8:22pm UTC](https://bisq.community/t/announcing-the-trading-api/3424/2 "2017-11-13T20:22:21Z")
Sounds amazing!