Deribit Rust Client

Type-safe, async Rust client for the Deribit WebSocket JSON‑RPC v2 API. Request/response types are generated at build time from the official API spec, and a single connection supports both RPC calls and streaming subscriptions.

✨ Features

• 🏗️ Build-time codegen from Deribit’s spec (production by default, optional Testnet)
• ⚡ Async WebSocket JSON‑RPC 2.0 over a single multiplexed connection
• 🦀 Strongly-typed requests, responses, channels and subscription notifications
• 📡 Simple subscriptions API for public and private channels
• 🔁 Concurrency-friendly: methods take &self (no mut), and the client is shareable via Arc
• 💓 Automatic heartbeat handling: responds to Deribit test_request internally (no manual pings needed)

🚀 Quick Start

Add the crate and tokio to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
deribit-api = "0.1.2"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
futures-util = "0.3" # for StreamExt in subscription examples

▶️ Basic usage

Public call example: fetch server time.

use deribit_api::{DeribitClient, Env, PublicGetTimeRequest};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?;
    let time = client.call(PublicGetTimeRequest {}).await?;
    println!("Server time (µs): {:?}", time);
    Ok(())
}

🔐 Authentication + private methods

Authenticate using client credentials and fetch an account summary.

use deribit_api::{
    DeribitClient, Env, PublicAuthRequest, PublicAuthGrantType, PrivateGetAccountSummaryRequest,
    WalletCurrency,
};

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?;

    let client_id = std::env::var("DERIBIT_CLIENT_ID")?;
    let client_secret = std::env::var("DERIBIT_CLIENT_SECRET")?;

    let _auth = client
        .call(PublicAuthRequest {
            grant_type: PublicAuthGrantType::ClientCredentials,
            client_id,
            client_secret,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await?;

    let summary = client
        .call(PrivateGetAccountSummaryRequest {
            currency: WalletCurrency::Btc,
            ..Default::default()
        })
        .await?;
    println!("Account summary: {:?}", summary);
    Ok(())
}

📡 Streaming subscriptions

Untyped variant: subscribe by channel string and receive a Stream of serde_json::Value.

use deribit_api::{DeribitClient, Env};
use futures_util::StreamExt;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?;

    let mut stream = client.subscribe_raw("trades.BTC-PERPETUAL.raw").await?;

    while let Some(msg) = stream.next().await {
        println!("{:?}", msg);
    }
    Ok(())
}

Typed variant: use generated channel types and get a Stream of typed messages.

use deribit_api::{DeribitClient, Env, SubscriptionInterval, TradesInstrumentNameChannel};
use futures_util::StreamExt;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?;

    let channel = TradesInstrumentNameChannel {
        instrument_name: "BTC-PERPETUAL".to_string(),
        interval: SubscriptionInterval::Agg2,
    };
    let mut stream = client.subscribe(channel).await?;

    while let Some(msg) = stream.next().await {
        println!("{:?}", msg);
    }
    Ok(())
}

🧪 Testnet

• Connect with Env::Testnet:

let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Testnet).await?;

• Enable the feature to also generate Testnet types:

[dependencies]
deribit-api = { version = "0.1.2", features = ["testnet"] }

When the testnet feature is enabled, production types live at the crate root (deribit_api::*), and Testnet‑generated types are available under deribit_api::testnet::*.

Note: Enable the testnet feature only if you need endpoints or fields that exist only on Testnet. If you don't need any Testnet‑specific features, you can connect to Env::Testnet while using the default production spec and all overlapping APIs will work as expected.

🧩 API model

• Each endpoint like public/get_time maps to a request struct named PublicGetTimeRequest.
• Send requests via client.call(request).await.
• Responses deserialize into generated structs/enums where possible, or serde_json::Value for generic schemas.
• Subscriptions expose generated channel structs (e.g., TradesInstrumentNameChannel) implementing the Subscription trait. Use client.subscribe(channel).await? for typed streams, or client.subscribe_raw("...") for untyped.

Error type: all calls return Result<T, deribit_api::Error> (covers RPC, WebSocket, and JSON decode errors).

🧵 Low-level: call_raw

If you want to call a method by name with ad‑hoc JSON parameters, use call_raw. It returns a serde_json::Value.

Requires adding serde_json to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
serde_json = "1"

use deribit_api::{DeribitClient, Env};
use serde_json::json;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?;

    // Public call
    let time = client.call_raw("public/get_time", json!({})).await?;
    println!("Server time (µs): {}", time);

    // Authenticate (enables private methods on this connection)
    let _auth = client
        .call_raw(
            "public/auth",
            json!({
                "grant_type": "client_credentials",
                "client_id": std::env::var("DERIBIT_CLIENT_ID")?,
                "client_secret": std::env::var("DERIBIT_CLIENT_SECRET")?,
            }),
        )
        .await?;

    // Private call
    let account = client
        .call_raw(
            "private/get_account_summary",
            json!({ "currency": "BTC" }),
        )
        .await?;
    println!("Account summary: {}", account);

    Ok(())
}

🤝 Concurrency and sharing

The client is safe to share across tasks using std::sync::Arc and does not require mut. All methods take &self and internally multiplex over a single WebSocket connection.

use std::sync::Arc;
use deribit_api::{DeribitClient, Env, PublicGetTimeRequest, SubscriptionInterval, TradesInstrumentNameChannel};
use futures_util::StreamExt;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let client = Arc::new(DeribitClient::connect(Env::Production).await?);

    // Task 1: make RPC calls
    let c1 = client.clone();
    let h1 = tokio::spawn(async move {
        let _ = c1.call(PublicGetTimeRequest {}).await;
    });

    // Task 2: subscribe to a channel
    let c2 = client.clone();
    let h2 = tokio::spawn(async move {
        let mut stream = c2.subscribe(TradesInstrumentNameChannel {
            instrument_name: "BTC-PERPETUAL".to_string(),
            interval: SubscriptionInterval::Agg2,
        }).await.unwrap();
        while let Some(_data) = stream.next().await {}
    });

    let _ = tokio::join!(h1, h2);
    Ok(())
}

🔧 Configuration

• Default spec source: production https://www.deribit.com/static/deribit_api_v2.json.

• Override the API spec used for codegen at build time in one of these ways:

  • Enable the bundled-spec feature to force using bundled deribit_api_v2.json file:
    • Enabling bundled-spec feature in Cargo.toml:

      [dependencies]
      deribit-api = { version = "0.1.2", features = ["bundled-spec"] }

    • Running tests using bundled spec: cargo test --features bundled-spec
  • Environment variable DERIBIT_API_SPEC pointing to a local file path or a URL.
    • Examples:
      • DERIBIT_API_SPEC=./deribit_api_v2.json cargo build
      • DERIBIT_API_SPEC=https://example.com/deribit_api_v2.json cargo build

• Testnet codegen: enable testnet to also generate Testnet types alongside production:

  • Enabling testnet feature in Cargo.toml:

    [dependencies]
    deribit-api = { version = "0.1.2", features = ["testnet"] }

  • Production types are at the crate root (deribit_api::*); Testnet types live under deribit_api::testnet::*.
  • Only enable this if you need new Testnet endpoints/fields that are not available on production; otherwise you can use Env::Testnet with the default production spec.

• The build script also sets GENERATED_DERIBIT_CLIENT_PATH (env var) to the formatted, generated production client file path in target/, which can help with debugging.

📚 Examples

This repo ships several runnable examples:

# Public calls
cargo run --example basic_usage

# Subscriptions
cargo run --example subscription

# Authentication + private endpoints
cargo run --example authentication

# Setting heartbeats
cargo run --example heartbeat

# Testnet (enables the feature and uses the Testnet endpoint)
cargo run --features testnet --example testnet

# Low-level + untyped stream
cargo run --example untyped

# Concurrent RPC + subscription on one connection
cargo run --example concurrent

🛠️ Development

cargo build
cargo check --examples
cargo test

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This software is for educational and development purposes. Use at your own risk when trading with real funds.