pip install alpaca trade api

Cause of error while running command pip install alpaca trade API

This error occurs while running the command pip install alpaca trade API into your python environment using the pip command. This mainly happens due to the older version of pip installed in your computer. Not only this issue can also occur while installing any other library in python as well. 

The error looks like as shown below. 

ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/python3 -u -c 'import io, os, sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/0b/qkyt93xx5ts8vf6lm8v7txxm0000gn/T/pip-install-ibu2qfpj/numpy_4257e6a256ca4130b766e6132889a532/setup.py'"'"';

Solution

A Python library for the Alpaca Commission Free Trading API is called alpaca-trade-API-python. It supports both REST and streaming data interfaces, making it simple to construct trading algorithms quickly.

The brew is an OS X tool for installing common software packages that are free source and community-maintained.

To make sure that requests will function, the pip command searches for the package in PyPI resolves any dependencies, and installs everything in your current Python environment. The pip install command always searches for and installs the most recent version of the package.

The main solution to this issue is to upgrade the pip command in your python working environment. One can also solve this issue by following certain steps. The steps are as follows: 

1. Firstly we need to install brew. 

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Now install open labs after installing pandas and NumPy using brew.  

brew install openblas
OPENBLAS="$(brew --prefix openblas)" pip install numpy pandas

3. As the last step, we need to install the alpaca trade API. 

pip install alpaca_trade_api

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