How to export your account history via API

To export your trades or ledger history via API, follow these steps:

1
Generate an API key with the relevant permissions.
- Sign in to your Kraken account.
- Click on your name in the upper-right corner of the page.
- Click on Security and navigate to the API Settings.
- Press the Add key button.
- Select these key permissions:
- "Export Data"
- "Query Ledger Entries" (for Ledger exports)
- "Query Closed Orders & Trades" (for Trades exports)
- Press the Generate key button.
2
Install Kraken's REST API command line client.
3
Run the relevant API commands.
You can now easily run all the API commands from our API guide. Relevant commands for account history include:- AddExport (make an export request)- ExportStatus (see if an export request is "processed" or still"queued")- RetrieveExport (download a processed export)- RemoveExport (delete export request)

Example

Lets use the AddExport command to request:

Ledger history for 2018

./krakenapi.py AddExport description=MyLedgerHistory2018 report=ledgers starttm=1514764800 endtm=1546300799

Trades history for 2018

./krakenapi.py AddExport description=MyTradesHistory2018 report=trades starttm=1514764800 endtm=1546300799

Note: you need to use the UNIX timestamp for start and end times.

After successfully running the AddExport command, you can go to the History > Export page on Kraken.com to view your request's status, download it, or delete it.

Alternatively, you can complete these further actions by using the other API commands listed above.