Retirement Support

[abhmul]

Checklist

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Feature Request

Now that Robinhood has added retirement accounts, it would be good to be able to manage investment there as well. I can look into how to do this, but if anyone familiar with the codebase and api has pointers on how to do this, that would be helpful.

Questions I have

1. Is there any documentation available on what API endpoints are available?
2. I placed a test order on my retirement account for VTI of $1 through the RobinHood website. When placing the order, the website says my "Estimated Shares" were 0.005212, but the api request for the order used a quantity of 0.004577. In fact the price on the website was $191.86 but the price in the request was $218.44. Why the discrepancy?

Notes on what I've figured out

• There is an account number for your retirement account that is different from your brokerage account number. However, you cannot get it with a GET request to https://api.robinhood.com/accounts/. I managed to find mine by tracking the requests Robinhood sends. Once you have the number you can send requests with the account number in the payload, and everything should work as expected.

[adithyabsk]

Hi @abhmul, that's interesting! Right now, this project is in maintainance mode and is accepting contributions. Robinhood does not have a documented API as such and will require reverse engineering to figure out both the endpoints and the payloads.

If this feature is of interest to you please submit a PR and I'll review and merge.

[jhirschibar]

You can find your retirement account numbers by examining your retirement account statement. It is in the top right corner. The API endpoints in pyrh work well when substituting in the retirement account number in place of the default brokerage account number

[Jamonek]

I'll work on documenting changes required over the coming weeks.

[jhirschibar]

I'm working on some tools too that I may end up pushing. I look forward to your docs

[viaConBodhi]

Started playing around with it and it looks like endpoint + "?account_numbers=YOACT###sGOHERE" is returning data for those accounts. Just started testing but it's looking promising.

[mw66]

how to programmatically get the retirement account number?

[mw66]

@abhmul

Can you show some code snippets on how to "send requests with the account number in the payload", e.g. when placing an order?

Thanks?

[jhirschibar]

how to programmatically get the retirement account number?

I've not found a way as of yet, only via account statement so far

[viaConBodhi]

@mw66 easiest way to get your act# is to get it from the reports/statement pdf. Haven't tried submitting an order so not sure. After authenticating in the variable "rh", and making sure you've imported the request, json and pandas libraries, you can use the endpoint in the url.py file in this project to build a call like

df = pd.DataFrame(rh.session.get('https://api.robinhood.com/orders/?account_numbers=YOUR-ACT-#-HERE').json()['results'])

and this will return a DF with your info. They may use the same variable "account_numbers" for the submitting order payload but haven't tested yet. You could prob look at the traffic or just update the code and test trying to buy something for a $1 to see if it processes. Let us know your findings if you do.

[joortcom]

FYI: robin_stocks support multiple Retirement accounts:

jmfernandes/robin_stocks#377
jmfernandes/robin_stocks#387

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