Establishing the Websocket with Client Portal Gateway | Interactive Brokers

Next, you will need to build your websocket to wss://localhost:5000/v1/api/ws. In your request to establish the websocket, be sure to set your cookie header as “api={‘session’ value here}”

Python

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1 ws = websocket.WebSocketApp(
2   url="wss://localhost:5000/v1/api/ws",
3   on_open=on_open,
4   on_message=on_message,
5   on_error=on_error,
6   on_close=on_close,
7   cookie=f"api={sessionToken}"
8 )
9 ws.run_forever()