Classic ASP
Subscribe to Multiple Bitfinex Tickers on One Connection

Subscribes to multiple ticker symbols on the public Bitfinex websocket ticker channel and receives ticker updates.
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success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set ws = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.WebSocket")

' For brevity, this example does not check for errors when etablishing the WebSocket connection.
' See Establish WebSocket Connection for more complete sample code for making the connection.

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to api.bitfinex.com
success = rest.Connect("api.bitfinex.com",443,1,0)
success = ws.UseConnection(rest)
success = ws.AddClientHeaders()

responseBody = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/ws")
success = ws.ValidateServerHandshake()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( responseBody) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' After connecting, the bitfinex websocket server will send
' an info message that contains the actual version of the websocket stream.
' Receive that message..
success = ws.ReadFrame()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed to receive a frame") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "ReadFrame fail reason = " & ws.ReadFrameFailReason) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' We should get this:
' {"event":"info","version":1.1,"platform":{"status":1}}
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.GetFrameData()) & "</pre>"

' Subscribe to the BTCUSD ticker feed.
' See https://docs.bitfinex.com/docs for more information.
set json1 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json1.AppendString("event","subscribe")
success = json1.AppendString("channel","ticker")
success = json1.AppendString("pair","BTCUSD")

finalFrame = 1
success = ws.SendFrame(json1.Emit(),finalFrame)

' Subscribe to the ETHUSD ticker feed.
set json2 = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json2.AppendString("event","subscribe")
success = json2.AppendString("channel","ticker")
success = json2.AppendString("pair","ETHUSD")

success = ws.SendFrame(json2.Emit(),finalFrame)

' Begin reading the ticker feed.
' / This will include a single confirmation response for each subscription.

' We'll just read the 1st 5 updates and then exit..
receivedFinalFrame = 0
numUpdatesReceived = 0
Do While numUpdatesReceived < 7

    success = ws.ReadFrame()
    If (success <> 1) Then
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed to receive a frame") & "</pre>"
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "ReadFrame fail reason = " & ws.ReadFrameFailReason) & "</pre>"
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
        Response.End
    End If

    ' The responses we desire are in Text frames, where the opcode = 1.
    If (ws.FrameOpcodeInt = 1) Then
        receivedText = ws.GetFrameData()
        Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( receivedText) & "</pre>"
        ' Should receive a line of text such as this:
        ' [2751,7349,36.34269559,7349.1,41.01777063,-116.2,-0.0156,7349.1,22188.26055319,7560,7270.5]
        ' Initially, a single confirmation response for each subscription would be received, such as this:
        ' {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":810,"pair":"BTCUSD"}
        numUpdatesReceived = numUpdatesReceived + 1
    End If

Loop

' This is sample output:
' You can see that the 1st message received is the subscription confirmation for the BTCUSD subscribe request.
' The next message is a BTCUSD ticker update.
' The next message is the confirmation for the ETHUSD subscription.
' The next message is an ETHUSD update.
' The BTCUSD channel ID is "537", and the ETHUSD channel ID is "700".  The channel IDs are provided in the 
' subscription confirmation messages.  Each ticker update begins with the channel ID..

' {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":537,"pair":"BTCUSD"}
' [537,6457.9,79.59102302,6458,22.49395741,-24.1,-0.0037,6457.9,13644.52820029,6540,6370.76958739]
' {"event":"subscribed","channel":"ticker","chanId":700,"pair":"ETHUSD"}
' [700,496.9,247.24493326,496.92,284.09636979,-2.47,-0.0049,496.9,74154.05945261,502.85,486.96]
' [537,"hb"]
' [700,"hb"]
' [700,496.92,233.34338276,496.93,431.78867277,-2.45,-0.0049,496.92,74167.99173586,502.85,486.96]

' Close the websocket connection.
success = ws.SendClose(1,1000,"Closing this websocket.")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' Read the Close response.
success = ws.ReadFrame()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "ReadFrame fail reason = " & ws.ReadFrameFailReason) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( ws.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Success.") & "</pre>"

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