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Utilities APIs

Utilities APIs provide essential information and utility functions for the platform’s operations. They offer functionalities for retrieving economic calendar events, managing real-time message streams, and accessing details about landing companies and server statuses.

Additionally, these APIs include utility features like server time, ping requests, and country/state lists for account management.

These APIs ensure smooth platform operations and deliver up-to-date trading and account management information.

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API Name

Description

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Scope

1

Economic Calendar

Retrieve a list of economic events for a specific currency. If no currency is specified, the list includes all currencies.

NA

2

Forget

Immediately cancels the real-time stream of messages with a specific ID.

NA

3

Forget All

Immediately cancels all real-time streams of messages of a given type.

NA

4

Landing Company

Retrieve the appropriate landing company based on the client’s country. Different landing companies may be returned for derived contracts (e.g., Synthetic Indices) and financial contracts (e.g., Forex, Stock Indices, Commodities).

NA

5

Landing Company Details

Provides information about each landing company, which are licensed subsidiaries of the Deriv Group.

NA

6

Ping

Sends a ping request to the server, mainly used to test the connection or to keep it alive.

NA

7

Countries List

Retrieve a list of countries and their two-letter codes, suitable for populating the account opening form.

NA

8

States List

Retrieve the list of servers available for the trading platform.

NA

9

Server Time

Requests the back-end server epoch time.

NA

10

Server List

Retrieves a list of servers for a trading platform.

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11

Trading Times

Retrieve market opening times for a specified date.

NA

12

Server Status

Requests the server status.

NA