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Adding KuCoin API

BravoBot uses API keys to make trandes on your behalf. API keys gives BravoBot the ability to check your balance to know if you can afford to make a trade and to make trades automatically. So to utilize the full power of BravoBot it will need your API key.

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Starting Off

You can find the API panel in the settings of your account. Then you will want to head over to the “API Keys” tab. Here you will be able to label your API key. Naming your API key is essential if you’re using multiple exchanges – making them easier to identify. The last two fields are for the API key and API key secret, these two are essential to the functionality of the bot.

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Getting the API Key

To get your KuCoin API key, you need to be logged in, head over to the icon in the top right that has your initials, and in the menu that comes up, press “API Management.”

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Then click on the "Create API" button.

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After that give your API Key a name and a passphrase. A passphrase is basically a user generated password for the API key to work, make it unique. You will need this passphrase for BravoBot.

Also enable the "Trade" API permission.

Finally, paste the whitelisted IP addresses from the BravoBot API Key Management, and click add. You will have to replace the blank spaces with `,` (commas) for the input to be valid. Or you can input the IPs one IP at a time and clicking add.

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Security Verification

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Complete the security verification.

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And email verification.

Putting your API Key into BravoBot

To finish off, you will have to add your API key to BravoBot. Put the API passphrase (user generated), API key and API secret into the corresponding places on BravoBot and click submit.

(a.) is the user generated passphrase.

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Now BravoBot will be able to trade on your behalf once you launch a live bot.

The next step is to create a virtual wallet.