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Just to clarify, you don't have any problem with people posting API clients (etc) on Github?

We have no problems with OSS API clients. (I've mentioned previously, but given that it is 2015, I'd expect most developers given the task "Do something with a novel API" to immediately start looking for the OSS client rather than sending in raw HTTP requests.) Our community has several of them ready to go: https://discuss.starfighters.io/t/helpful-external-tools/136

The more the merrier!

We'd prefer if folks exercised discretion with regards to posting solutions; many of our players find the existence of them anywhere demotivating.

All the Really Good Hackers are now heads-down writing ridiculously fast, OSS-but-completely-incomprehensible clients in Erlaskelleron that will be unbeatable for performance, ease of use, and phoning home trading strategies.

I knew I'd read it somewhere, but just wanted to check anyway.

Not finished yet but: https://github.com/vertis/stockfighter-trading-api-ruby

Edit: And I can't post to that thread since I don't have an account yet (client based on the documentation) ;)

Please send me an email. I will give you a invite code to the beta, which will let you create an account to put your client up on the forum thread. (HNers who did not already spend a metric truckload of time writing clients: give us until tomorrow afternoon, please.)

Did so, but will happily wait as well :)

Edit Again: Is actually finished now, to the extent I can do without an actual account.

I started writing one in Go: https://github.com/ianberinger/stockfighter

Here's another one :-)

https://github.com/donovanhide/stockfighter

Based on the docs and only tested against the unauthenticated endpoints so far...

Looks nice!

It seems to be encouraged:

"We have per-level leaderboards which give people a meaningful number to golf on, and additionally, we have discretion to (automatically or after human review) award additional badges for going above-and-beyond on a level. We’ll also do that outside of levels, too — I can imagine issuing badges for people who, e.g., write OSS clients for our API, submit documentation patches, responsibly report security issues, etc." - http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-s...

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