## 🔌 Methods to Connect TradingView to Flattrade API

### **1. Using TradingView Alerts + Webhook → Python → Flattrade API**

* TradingView lets you set alerts on indicators, price, or strategies.
* In the alert box, you can choose **Webhook URL**.
* Set this webhook to a small Python/Flask server running on your system or cloud (like AWS, Heroku, Railway).
* That server receives the alert and then calls **Flattrade API** (place order, fetch data, etc.).

**Steps:**

1. Get Flattrade API credentials (API key, secret, and session token).
2. Create a Flask/FastAPI app that exposes an endpoint /tv_alert.
3. In TradingView, set webhook URL to http://yourserver.com/tv_alert.
4. Your Python code parses TradingView’s JSON alert and places an order through Flattrade API.

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### **2. Using Pine Script strategy + Webhook**

* Write a TradingView **strategy script** (Pine Script) that generates buy/sell alerts.
* In the alert_message, embed JSON like:

json

 {

 "symbol": "{{ticker}}",

 "action": "BUY",

 "price": "{{close}}"

 }

 

* Your webhook listener (Python) takes this JSON and directly executes Flattrade API calls.

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### **3. Using 3rd Party Middleware (like AlgoTest, Tradetron, or Python bridge)**

* Some platforms already connect TradingView alerts to Indian brokers (Flattrade included in some cases).
* But if you want **full control**, a custom Python bridge is better.

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## 🔧 Example Python Snippet (Webhook Listener → Flattrade Order)

python

from flask import Flask, request, jsonify

import requests



app = Flask(__name__)



# Flattrade API credentials

API_KEY = "your_api_key"

ACCESS_TOKEN = "your_session_token" # Generate daily via login API

BASE_URL = "https://piconnect.flattrade.in/PiConnectTP/"



def place_order(symbol, side, qty=1, price_type="MKT"):

 url = BASE_URL + "placeorder"

 data = {

 "exchange": "NSE",

 "tradingsymbol": symbol,

 "transactiontype": side, # BUY or SELL

 "ordertype": price_type,

 "producttype": "INTRADAY",

 "quantity": qty,

 "price": 0,

 "clientid": API_KEY,

 "token": ACCESS_TOKEN

 }

 r = requests.post(url, json=data)

 return r.json()



@app.route("/tv_alert", methods=["POST"])

def tv_alert():

 alert = request.json

 symbol = alert.get("symbol", "RELIANCE-EQ")

 action = alert.get("action", "BUY")

 qty = alert.get("qty", 1)



 response = place_order(symbol, action, qty)

 return jsonify(response)



if __name__ == "__main__":

 app.run(port=5000, debug=True)

👉 Now, in TradingView:

* Set webhook to http://yourserver:5000/tv_alert
* Add alert with message:

json

 {"symbol": "RELIANCE-EQ", "action": "BUY", "qty": 10}

 

With this setup:

* TradingView → generates signal
* Webhook → Python server
* Python → places order via Flattrade API