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alpaca-broker-sse-events

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Consume Alpaca Broker API real-time SSE event streams reliably

Finance & Accounting#SSE#brokerage#Alpaca API#real-time events#finance application
Authoralpacahq
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

This Skill enables reliable consumption of Alpaca Broker API real-time event streams using Server-Sent Events (SSE), solving the challenges of real-time event monitoring, processing, and maintaining state in Alpaca brokerage applications.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Real-Time Event Consumption: Monitor brokerage lifecycle events such as account status, journal entries, funding transfers, trade updates, and non-trade activities in real-time.
  • Connection & Auth: Securely handle connection management and authentication for SSE events over HTTP Basic auth.
  • Replay Cursor Management: Implement replay cursors to recover and replay missed events upon reconnect, ensuring data integrity and avoiding duplicate processing.
  • Error Handling: Include robust error handling with reconnection logic and heartbeat detection for reliability in a production environment.

Quick Start

Set up this Skill in your brokerage application to consume and process real-time events using SSE for the Alpaca Broker API.

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Name: alpaca-broker-sse-events
Download link: https://github.com/alpacahq/alpaca-skills/archive/main.zip#alpaca-broker-sse-events

Please download this .zip file, extract it, and install it in the .claude/skills/ directory.
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