# Trading 212 API: Invest and ISA only, not the CFD account Independent and unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any broker or platform named here. Educational only: nothing here is advice, and nothing here recommends a broker or a trade. This is the markdown version of https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212, written from the same records as that page. Risk warning: CFDs and spread bets are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. You can lose money on these products, and each provider publishes its own loss figure under FCA rules. You should consider whether you understand how they work and whether you can afford to take the high risk of losing your money. Automated and API trading can amplify losses through bugs, connectivity failures and runaway orders. REST API for the General Invest Account and the Stocks and Shares ISA, described as beta; it does not reach the CFD account. - Kind: Broker API - Newest reading: 2026-10-12 - Official documentation: [docs.trading212.com](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/rate-limiting) - Everything recorded for Trading 212, as one JSON file: https://openbrokerapi.com/data/brokers/trading-212.json - Quickstart, key to first call: https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/quickstart ## Trading 212 API rate limits and allowances One record per limit. The scope is part of the limit: a figure without its scope is not a figure you can pace against. - Headline limit: 1 req/5s, account summary (example) - Scope: account - Status: verified. Source: [docs.trading212.com](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/rate-limiting), checked 2026-10-12. - Note: Limits are set per endpoint and applied per account; this is the account summary example from the docs, not a single global figure. A different endpoint on the same docs page carries a much higher limit, order placement (POST market order) at 50 requests a minute, about one call every 1.2 seconds, shown elsewhere on this site's re-verified note dated 23 Sep 2026. The two figures are not a contradiction: they are two different endpoints on one rate-limiting page, read account summary 22 Sep 2026 and order placement 23 Sep 2026. Build a rate limiter against the endpoint you actually call, not against either figure alone. [Trading 212 API rate limits in full](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/rate-limits), with the related error codes. ## Access, authentication and streaming - How you get a key: On the web or in the app: menu, Settings, API (Beta), Generate API key. A risk warning must be accepted first. You then name the key, choose its permissions and choose whether to restrict it to given IP addresses. A key and a secret are issued, and the secret is shown once. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 help centre: Trading 212 API key](https://helpcentre.trading212.com/hc/en-us/articles/14584770928157-Trading-212-API-key), checked 2026-10-12. - Who can use it: The docs say the API is enabled and usable only for the Invest and Stocks ISA account types. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: general information](https://docs.trading212.com/api), checked 2026-10-12. - Demo: Yes: the docs name a paper trading (demo) environment on its own host, demo.trading212.com, beside the live host. Documented paths start /api/v0 on both. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: API environments](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/general-information/api-environments), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: accounts](https://docs.trading212.com/api/accounts), checked 2026-10-12. - Authentication: HTTP Basic: Authorization header of Basic base64(API_KEY:API_SECRET). - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: authentication](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/authentication), checked 2026-10-12. - Streaming: None documented. REST plus polling only. - Status: unverified. No source opened. - Rate limits, as worded: Per endpoint, applied per account whatever the API key or IP: for example account summary at 1 request every 5 seconds, with the reset time in an x-ratelimit-reset header. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: rate limiting](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/rate-limiting), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: accounts](https://docs.trading212.com/api/accounts), checked 2026-10-12. ## Trading 212 API endpoints 16 documented endpoints. [Grouped by what they do](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints). - [GET /api/v0/equity/account/summary](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/account-summary): Cash and investment figures for the account: funds free to trade, cash reserved for pending orders, the value and cost of holdings, and the total. - [GET /api/v0/equity/history/dividends](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/history-dividends): Dividends paid into the account, paged, with the amount, the quantity held and the per share figure. - [GET /api/v0/equity/history/exports](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/history-exports): The CSV reports you have asked for and the status of each. Once a report is Finished its entry carries a link to download the file. - [POST /api/v0/equity/history/exports](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/post-history-exports): Ask for a CSV report of account history over a period. The report is built in the background: the reply is a reportId to look for in the list of reports. - [GET /api/v0/equity/history/orders](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/history-orders): Past orders on the account, paged, each paired with the fill it produced. - [GET /api/v0/equity/history/transactions](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/history-transactions): Movements of cash in and out of the account, paged: deposits, withdrawals, fees, transfers and interest. - [GET /api/v0/equity/metadata/exchanges](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/metadata-exchanges): The exchanges the account can reach and the working schedules of each, which say when its instruments trade. - [GET /api/v0/equity/metadata/instruments](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/metadata-instruments): Every instrument the account can reach, with its ticker, name, ISIN, type, currency and the working schedule it trades on. - [GET /api/v0/equity/orders](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/orders): Every order still active on the account, meaning not yet filled, cancelled or expired. - [DELETE /api/v0/equity/orders/{id}](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/delete-order): Ask for a pending order to be cancelled. A success reply means the request was accepted, not that the order has gone: it may already be filling. - [GET /api/v0/equity/orders/{id}](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/order-by-id): One pending order, looked up by its numeric identifier. Use it to check on an order you placed earlier. - [POST /api/v0/equity/orders/limit](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/post-orders-limit): Place a limit order, which fills at the limit price or better. The sign of quantity sets the direction. - [POST /api/v0/equity/orders/market](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/post-orders-market): Place a market order, to deal at the next available price. The sign of quantity sets the direction. If the market is closed the order waits for it to open. - [POST /api/v0/equity/orders/stop](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/post-orders-stop): Place a stop order, which becomes a market order once the last traded price reaches the stop price. The sign of quantity sets the direction. - [POST /api/v0/equity/orders/stop_limit](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/post-orders-stop-limit): Place a stop limit order: when the last traded price reaches the stop price, a limit order is placed at the limit price. The sign of quantity sets the direction. - [GET /api/v0/equity/positions](https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212/endpoints/positions): Every open position on the account, with quantity, average price paid, current price and the effect on the account in its own currency. ## Trading 212 API error codes 8 decoded error codes. [All Trading 212 errors](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212). - [Bad filtering arguments](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/400-bad-filtering-arguments): The filtering arguments of a history request are not valid. - [Failed validation](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/400-failed-validation): The order request failed validation. - [HTTP 401](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/401-invalid-api-key): Trading 212 did not accept the credentials on the request. - [HTTP 403](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/403-missing-scope): The request was refused. - [HTTP 429](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/429-rate-limit): Too many requests for this endpoint in the current period. - [Missing Permissions](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/403-missing-permissions): The API key lacks the permission the endpoint needs. - [Order not found](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/404-order-not-found): No order exists with the id given. - [Timed-out](https://openbrokerapi.com/errors/trading-212/408-timed-out): The request timed out. ## Trading 212 API: questions and answers ### Does Trading 212 have an API? Yes. This register records Trading 212 as having its own API (REST), with availability marked as active. REST API for the General Invest Account and the Stocks and Shares ISA, described as beta; it does not reach the CFD account. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: rate limiting](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/rate-limiting), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 help centre: Trading 212 API key](https://helpcentre.trading212.com/hc/en-us/articles/14584770928157-Trading-212-API-key), checked 2026-10-12. ### Trading 212 API key: how do I get one? On the web or in the app: menu, Settings, API (Beta), Generate API key. A risk warning must be accepted first. You then name the key, choose its permissions and choose whether to restrict it to given IP addresses. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 help centre: Trading 212 API key](https://helpcentre.trading212.com/hc/en-us/articles/14584770928157-Trading-212-API-key), checked 2026-10-12. ### Who can use the Trading 212 API? The docs say the API is enabled and usable only for the Invest and Stocks ISA account types. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: general information](https://docs.trading212.com/api), checked 2026-10-12. ### Trading 212 API demo: is there a demo or sandbox? Yes: the docs name a paper trading (demo) environment on its own host, demo.trading212.com, beside the live host. Documented paths start /api/v0 on both. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: API environments](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/general-information/api-environments), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: accounts](https://docs.trading212.com/api/accounts), checked 2026-10-12. ### What are the Trading 212 API rate limits? Headline limit: 1 req/5s, account summary (example). Scope: account. As the record words it: Per endpoint, applied per account whatever the API key or IP: for example account summary at 1 request every 5 seconds, with the reset time in an x-ratelimit-reset header. - Status: verified. Source: [docs.trading212.com](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/rate-limiting), checked 2026-10-12. - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: accounts](https://docs.trading212.com/api/accounts), checked 2026-10-12. ### How does Trading 212 API authentication work? HTTP Basic: Authorization header of Basic base64(API_KEY:API_SECRET). - Status: verified. Source: [Trading 212 API docs: authentication](https://docs.trading212.com/api/section/authentication), checked 2026-10-12. ### Does the Trading 212 API support streaming? Unverified. None documented. REST plus polling only. - Status: unverified. No source opened. [Trading 212 API questions, each answered in a sentence or two](https://openbrokerapi.com/answers/trading-212). ## Partner programme No published figure. [The Trading 212 partner programme record](https://openbrokerapi.com/partners/trading-212). This site carries no affiliate links. ## Licence and how to cite The limit records on this page come from the limits register, which is CC BY 4.0 (https://openbrokerapi.com/data/limits.json). Everything else on it comes from records that are all rights reserved. This file is the page itself, at its own address, in another format, and it is not part of the CC BY 4.0 downloads listed at https://openbrokerapi.com/data. Cite as: Trading 212 API: Invest and ISA only, not the CFD account. Broker API Hub, https://openbrokerapi.com/brokers/trading-212, newest check 2026-10-12. Where you rely on a single figure, cite the source and the checked date printed beside it as well. 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