Ticker Lite

CHANNEL
wss://futures.kraken.com/ws/v1
ticker_lite

The ticker lite feed returns ticker information about listed products. Delta messages are throttled such that they are published every 1s.

Request

Request Fields

MESSAGE BODY

event string required

subscribe or unsubscribe

feed string required

The requested subscription feed ticker_lite

product_ids list of strings required

A list of strings which represent the products that user will receive information upon.

Example

{
  "event": "subscribe",
  "feed": "ticker_lite",
  "product_ids": ["PI_XBTUSD", "FI_ETHUSD_210625"]
}

Response Success

Response Fields

MESSAGE BODY

event string

The result, subscribed or subscribed_failed or unsubscribed or unsubscribed_failed

feed string

The requested subscription feed ticker_lite

product_ids list of strings required

A list of strings which represent the products that user will receive information upon.

Successful

{
  "event": "subscribed ",
  "feed": "ticker_lite",
  "product_ids": ["PI_XBTUSD"]
}

Response Snapshot

Response Fields

MESSAGE BODY

feed string

The subscribed feed.

product_id string

The subscribed product (referred also as instrument or symbol).

bid positive float

The price of the current best bid.

ask positive float

The price of the current best ask.

change float

The 24h change in price.

premium float

The premium associated with the product.

volume positive float

The sum of the sizes of all fills observed in the last 24 hours.

tag string

Currently can be week, month or quarter. Other tags may be added without notice..

pair string

The currency pair of the instrument.

dtm integer

The days until maturity.

maturityTime positive integer

Maturity time in milliseconds.

volumeQuote positive float

The same as volume except that, for multi-collateral futures, it is converted to the non-base currency

Subscription Data

{
  "feed": "ticker_lite",
  "product_id": "PI_XBTUSD",
  "bid": 34932,
  "ask": 34949.5,
  "change": 3.3705205220015966,
  "premium": 0.1,
  "volume": 264126741,
  "tag": "perpetual",
  "pair": "XBT:USD",
  "dtm": 0,
  "maturityTime": 0,
  "volumeQuote": 264126741
}

Subscription Data 2

{
  "feed": "ticker_lite",
  "product_id": "FI_ETHUSD_210625",
  "bid": 1753.45,
  "ask": 1760.35,
  "change": 13.448175559936647,
  "premium": 9.1,
  "volume": 6899673.0,
  "tag": "semiannual",
  "pair": "ETH:USD",
  "dtm": 141,
  "maturityTime": 1624633200000,
  "volumeQuote": 6899673.0
}

Response Error

Response Fields

MESSAGE BODY

event string

Always error

message string

An error message out of:
Invalid product id
Invalid feed
Json Error

Example Error

{
  "event": "error",
  "message": "Invalid product id"
}