Can't make POST requests for Kucoin

Can’t seem to make POST requests on Kucoin, it says that “Signature verification failed”. All GET requests have worked fine so far.

• OS: Mac OS
• Programming Language: Python (ipynb format)
• CCXT version: 1.10
• Exchange: Kucoin
• Method: create_order

ku_client.create_order('LTC/BTC', 'limit', 'buy', .01, 0.01655)



Result:
AuthenticationError: kucoin {"msg":"Signature verification failed","timestamp":1514554308458,"code":"UNAUTH","success":false}

[gaardiolor]

Yeah, they’re having load issues. Sometimes that page works, (it does for me at the moment). Some more info when that page works:

import ccxt
import test_config as config
from pprint import pprint
import time

e = ccxt.kucoin()
e.apiKey = config.exchange_keys['kucoin']['key']
e.secret = config.exchange_keys['kucoin']['secret']
e.timeout = 60000
e.proxies = {'http': 'http://localhost:8080',
             'https': 'http://localhost:8080'}
balances = e.fetch_balance()
print(balances['ETH'])
time.sleep(1)
e.createLimitSellOrder('ETH/BTC', 0.00059940, 0.04978104)


C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\python.exe C:/Users/gaardiolor/PycharmProjects/Test2/_test/test_kucoin.py
{'free': 0.0005994, 'used': 0.0, 'total': 0.0005994}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 345, in fetch_requests
    response.raise_for_status()
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 935, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 401 Client Error:  for url: https://api.kucoin.com/v1/order

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/gaardiolor/PycharmProjects/Test2/_test/test_kucoin.py", line 15, in <module>
    e.createLimitSellOrder('ETH/BTC', 0.00059940, 0.04978104)
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 1050, in create_limit_sell_order
    return self.create_order(symbol, 'limit', 'sell', *args)
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\kucoin.py", line 298, in create_order
    response = self.privatePostOrder(self.extend(order, params))
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\kucoin.py", line 471, in request
    response = self.fetch2(path, api, method, params, headers, body)
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 290, in fetch2
    return self.fetch_requests(request['url'], request['method'], request['headers'], request['body'])
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\base\exchange.py", line 357, in fetch_requests
    self.handle_errors(response.status_code, response.reason, url, method, None, self.last_http_response)
  File "C:\Users\gaardiolor\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\ccxt\kucoin.py", line 465, in handle_errors
    raise AuthenticationError(self.id + ' ' + self.json(response))
ccxt.base.errors.AuthenticationError: kucoin {"code":"UNAUTH","msg":"Signature verification failed","success":false,"timestamp":1514555842503}

So fetching (also using private api) works, placing orders doesn’t work.

[gaardiolor]

ok great! I think both problems are solved.