Market Data Real-time Websocket OAuth support

Alpaca Integration Applications
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I’m just updating my Alpaca API to support OAuth. However, I’ve noticed that there is no documentation for authenticating using OAuth access tokens for market data real-time websockets.

I can receive trade updates from the Trade API streaming socket data with OAuth, and I can access historical data ReST API using the Authorization: Bearer header, but not for Market Data real-time websockets.

I’ve taken a look at the alpaca-py source code to try and figure out how to do it, but it doesn’t appear to implemented.

Am I missing something?

I did try the same format for sending a auth socket message as described for trade streaming authentication, but it didn’t work.

If it is the case that there is no Market Data Real-Time Websockets support for authenticating with OAuth, that seems like a glaring omission.

If I have missed something, please correct me.

Thanks

G

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Never mind. According to this discord response, market data real-time websockets do not support OAuth authentication due to licensing.

What a pain. :rage: