Overview

Details about how to obtain access tokens using OAuth 2.0

Fetch positions, balances and other account related details.

Place equity and complex option trades including advanced orders.

Fetch quotes, chains and historical data via REST and streaming APIs.

Stream market data and account events in real-time.

Create and update custom watchlists.

Examples, response types, property details and explanations.

Exchange a Refresh Token

  • Available in Paper Trading
  • Available in Production
  • Available to Advisors
  • Supported

A member of the Tradier Brokerage team must approve your application for refresh tokens. This is only available to Tradier Partners. You can email techsupport@tradier.com to start the approval process.

Refresh tokens can be exchanged for access tokens without a customer reauthorizing the application. These tokens should be protected like passwords! You will obtain a refresh token in the same response as an access token.

Unlike other requests to the Tradier API, this request only returns JSON due to the OAuth 2.0 specification and for compatibility with most OAuth clients.

Due to the OAuth specification, this API endpoint uses HTTP Basic Authentication. Your application client Id will serve as your username and the client secret the password. You can learn more about HTTP Basic Authentication on Wikipedia or directly reference the specification.

Request

POST

Headers

Header Required Values/Example Default
Content-Type Required application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Authorization Required Basic lhQOWo0RzJUOWc6Z==
Basic HTTP Authentication. Username: Application client Id, Password: Application client secret

Parameters

Parameter Type Param Type Required Values/Example Default
grant_type Form String Required refresh_token
Value MUST be set to "refresh_token".
refresh_token Form String Required o0d897fusdnjfo28yoi2noi23098j
The refresh token to exchange.

Code Example

curl -X POST "https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken" \
     -H 'Authorization: Basic <TOKEN>' \
     -H 'Accept: application/json'
// Version 1.8.0_31
import static org.apache.http.entity.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.RequestBuilder;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.node.ObjectNode;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    
    final HttpUriRequest request = RequestBuilder
        .post("https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken")
        .addHeader("Authorization", "Basic <TOKEN>")
        .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
        
        .build();

    final HttpResponse response = HttpClientBuilder.create().build().execute(request);
    final String jsonString = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity());
    final JsonNode json = new ObjectMapper().readTree(jsonString);

    System.out.println(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());
    System.out.println(json);
  }
}
# Version 2.5.0p0
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Basic <TOKEN>'
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.code
puts response.read_body
// Version go1.12
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "net/url"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
)

func main() {
    apiUrl := "https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken"
    u, _ := url.ParseRequestURI(apiUrl)
    urlStr := u.String()
    
    client := &http.Client{}
    
    r.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <TOKEN>")
    r.Header.Add("Accept", "application/json")

    resp, _ := client.Do(r)
    responseData, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)

    if err != nil {
      log.Fatal(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(resp.Status)
    fmt.Println(string(responseData))
}
// Version 4.6.2.0
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

public class MainClass {
  public static void Main (string[] args) {
    var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken");
    request.Method = "POST";
    request.Headers["Authorization"] = "Basic <TOKEN>";
    request.Accept = "application/json";

    var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

    Console.WriteLine (response.StatusCode);
    var responseString = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();
    Console.WriteLine (responseString);
  }
}
// Version 10.15.2
const request = require('request');

request({
    method: 'post',
    url: 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken',
    
    headers: {
      'Authorization': 'Basic <TOKEN>',
      'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
  }, (error, response, body) => {
      console.log(response.statusCode);
      console.log(body);
  });
# Version 3.6.1
import requests

response = requests.post('https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken',
    
    headers={'Authorization': 'Basic <TOKEN>', 'Accept': 'application/json'}
)
json_response = response.json()
print(response.status_code)
print(json_response)
<?php
// Version 7.2.17-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://api.tradier.com/v1/oauth/refreshtoken');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);

$headers = array();
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Basic <TOKEN>';
$headers[] = 'Accept: application/json';

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$result = curl_exec($ch);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
    echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
echo $http_code;
echo $result;

Response

Response Definition

{
	"access_token": "0XcZIRtv12o89347S8B4GUu0K",
	"refresh_token": "MjAJkrGE90812jkOG7Rj3QGGl",
	"scope": "read write trade market",
	"issued_at": "2020-01-21T15:55:35.000-05:00",
	"status": "approved",
	"expires_in": 86399
}