Saving-and-Loading-Charts

Charting Library supports saving/loading charts and study templates (study templates are available in unstable) on 2 levels of abstraction:

1. Low-Level: save/load functionality is present by widget's save() / load() [[methods|Widget-Methods#savecallback]] and createStudyTemplate() / applyStudyTemplate() [[methods|Widget-Methods#createstudytemplateoptions]]. One who uses them should take care of physical storage on his own. But you can save those JSONs where you want to -- in example, you may embed them to your saved pages or user's working area and so on.

2. High-Level: Charting Library is able to save / load charts and study templates from storage you'll point to. We created a tiny storage sample with Python and PostgreSQL and put it on our GitHub. You may grab it and run on your own server so you'll have control over all your users' saved data.

Using High-Level Save/Load

Here are a few steps for those who want to have their own charts storage:

1. Clone our repo to your host
2. Run the data service or use our demo service.Here are a short todo list for those who's not familiar with Django.
   1. Install Python 3.x and Pip.
   2. Install PostgreSQL or some other Django-friendly database engine.
   3. go to you charts storage folder and run pip install -r requirements.txt
   4. go to charting_library_charts folder and set up your database connection in settings.py (see DATABASES @ line #12). Please remember to create appropriate database in your PostgreSQL.
   5. run python manage.py migrate . This will create database schema without any data.
   6. run python manage.py runserver to run TEST instance of your database. don't use the command above on production environment. Use some other stuff (i.e., Gunicorn)
3. Set up your Charting Library page: set charts_storage_url = url-of-your-charts-storage, also set client_id and user_id (see details below) in widget's .ctor.
4. Enjoy !

Remark: Manual filling/editing database is not the desired usage for this stuff. Please avoid this because you may hurt Django.

Developing your own backend

• Charting Library sends HTTP/HTTPS commands to charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id. charts_storage_url, charts_storage_api_version, client_id and user_id are the arguments of the widget constructor.
• You should implement processing of 4 requests: save chart / load chart / delete chart / list charts.

LIST CHARTS

GET REQUEST: charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id

RESPONSE: JSON Object

1. status: "ok" or "error"
2. data: Array of Objects
   1. "timestamp": UNIX time when the chart was saved (example, 1449084321)
   2. "symbol": base symbol of the chart (example, "AA")
   3. "resolution": resolution of the chart (example, "D")
   4. "id": unique integer identifier of the chart (example, 9163)
   5. "name": chart name (example, "Test")

SAVE CHART

POST REQUEST: charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id

1. "name": name of the chart
2. "content": content of the chart
3. "symbol": chart symbol (example, "AA")
4. "resolution: chart resolution (example, "D")

RESPONSE: JSON Object

1. "status": "ok" or "error"
2. "id": unique integer identifier of the chart (example, 9163)

SAVE AS CHART

POST REQUEST: charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id&chart=chart_id

1. "name": name of the chart
2. "content": content of the chart
3. "symbol": chart symbol (example, "AA")
4. "resolution: chart resolution (example, "D")

RESPONSE: JSON Object

1. "status": "ok" or "error"

LOAD CHART

GET REQUEST: charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id&chart=chart_id

RESPONSE: JSON Object

1. "status": "ok" or "error"
2. "data": Object
   1. "content": saved content of the chart
   2. "timestamp": UNIX time when the chart was saved (example, 1449084321)
   3. "id": unique integer identifier of the chart (example, 9163)
   4. "name": name of the chart

DELETE CHART

DELETE REQUEST: charts_storage_url/charts_storage_api_version/charts?client=client_id&user=user_id&chart=chart_id

RESPONSE: JSON Object

1. "status": "ok" or "error"

Using Demo Charts and Study Templates Storage

We're running demo charts storage service to let you try save/load as fast as you've got new Library's build. This storage URL is http://saveload.tradingview.com. It's just a demo so it is provided as-is. We do not guarantee its stability. Also, we drop all the data from this storage now and again.

Managing Saved Charts Access

You should take care of which charts your users will be able to see and load. Basically, user can see/load charts having the same client_id and user_id the user has. client_id is an identifier of user's group. It is intended to cover the case when you have few groups of users (i.e, when you have few sites) using the same charts storage. So the common practice is to set client_id = your-site's-URL. It's up to you however.

user_id is expected to be user's id in context of your client_id group. You can either set is to each user individually (to make each user to have his own private charts storage) or set it the same for all users or any users group to create a kind of public storage. Here are a few examples:

client_id	user_id	Effect
your site url or anything else	unique user id	Each user has his private charts storage other users can't see.
your site url or anything else	the same value for all users	Each user can see and load each of saved charts.
your site url or anything else	unique user id for registered users and some constant for all who's anonymous	Each registered user has his private charts storage other users can't see. All anonymous users have one shared storage.