IBeam is an authentication and maintenance tool used for the Interactive Brokers Client Portal Web API Gateway. It is directed at IBKR users.

You can find IBeam on GitHub:

https://github.com/Voyz/ibeam

Features:

• Facilitates continuous headless run of the Gateway.
• No physical display required – virtual display buffer can be used instead.
• No interaction from the user required – automated injection of IBKR credentials into the authentication page used by the Gateway.
• TLS certificate support – you can provide your own certificates.
• Containerised using Docker – it's a plug and play image, although IBeam can be used as standalone too.

Example

Instead of starting the Gateway manually and authenticating using the webpage, run:

docker run --env IBEAM_ACCOUNT=your_account123 --env IBEAM_PASSWORD=your_password123 -p 5000:5000 voyz/ibeam

That's it, you'll now be able to communicate with the Gateway.

curl -X GET "https://localhost:5000/v1/api/one/user" -k

I’m looking for someone who would like to do some code review on it (it’s relatively small), and there's a few areas of further development that could be addressed, so if you’d feel like helping out – drop me a message.

Hope you guys find it useful 😊