Breeze Login - API Home (Card View)

Introducing Breeze API

Build, backtest and trade your strategy in the live market at no additional cost with the most secure and simple to use API from ICICidirect - Breeze. Create your own trading platforms, get access to historical data and streaming OHLC to model your strategies to accuracy or securely connect your favorite trading platforms, Breeze API has it all. What are you waiting for? Get Started today!

Don't have an ICICIdirect Account? Open one in 10 minutes here

Why Breeze API?

Free of Charge

No charges at all to connect your sytems, creating apps or for access to the historical data.

Historical 1 Second Data

Only Breeze gives 3 years of second level LTP data. This allows clients to model their strategies more accurately and in the process backtest their strategies far more accurately.

Live Streaming OHLC

Breeze is the only one that gives streaming OHLC data so that strategies that are written around Historical OHLC data can be simply taken live without the need to change the data handling functions.

Historical Derivatives Data

3 years of Futures and Options historical data which is not provided by any other broker.

Triple Secure Data

Breeze has SSL + (App Key, Secret Key) encryption + Checksum encryption of the whole data package so no amount of sniffing or hacking can reveal client data to the wannabe hacker. Breeze is the only retail API in India has this feature.

Easy to access SDK document

Make use of our readymade sample document kit and easily start your API trading journey today - SDK document

For any queries, please write to us on breezeapi@icicisecurities.com

Please login to register app.

Please login to view app list.

Please login to view webhook.

How It Works:

A bit of theory to differentiate rest of Breeze (RESTful) endpoints from this webhook: RESTful APIs are stateless. They do not retain any memory of past operations, every request is serviced for what it asks for, depending on the request parameters, query variables, or payload, or any combination thereof.

To check for the state of a given request, clients will have to keep polling the server until the desired condition is met and consequent action is then taken by the client. This means placing many many API calls which takes a toll on the client, the server, as well as the network.

To work around this shortcoming of RESTful APIs, webhooks are special purpose connections kept open by the client for the server to trigger a message for. Webhooks are generally said to be "reverse APIs" as the call is placed by the server to the client (as opposed to normal client-to-server flow of normal APIs.)

In this context, Breeze Webhook is a "reverse reverse API", or just a simplistic substitute for Breeze's order placement endpoints. Whenever your code or application meets an order placement condition, it sends the pre-defined JSON string (from Step 2 above) to the webhook URL (from Step 1 above). And that's it! Breeze API does the rest!

Note: There is no confirmation system, for order management you will have to either subscribe to the Breeze Order confirmation sockets, or poll the order book as usual.