Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by felipe_csl » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 8:30 AM UTC

Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood
roberthood.herokuapp.com

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by fiatjaf » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 12:18 PM UTC

What is this?

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by kitwalker12 » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 5:04 PM UTC

i didn't know they had an open API. scared of using this though as robinhood is directly connected to my bank account

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by kitwalker12 » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #2

What is this?

Robinhood (https://www.robinhood.com/) is a 0 brokerage fee app for trading stocks

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 6:20 PM UTC

It's cool that you built it, though I can't trust a third-party app with my Robinhood credentials.

Did you use a proxy to figure out the API calls, or do you actually official API access?

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 6:21 PM UTC

kitwalker12 wrote: post #3

i didn't know they had an open API. scared of using this though as robinhood is directly connected to my bank account

Officially, the API is only open to "a select group of customers".

https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/203585145-Ro...

Re: Show HN: A Web Account Dashboard for Robinhood

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Post by felipe_csl » Thu, Mar 31, 2016, 8:27 PM UTC

You don't have to trust it. Just fork the code and deploy to your own heroku app. I'm just proxying the calls through to the robinhood API. You can view the code on Github, server.js is what you're looking for. The API is not exactly open yet, but it has been reverse engineered multiple times and Robinhood is aware of that.