Why Can't I Connect My Alpaca Paper Account Despite Able to Connect Regular Account?

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Hi!
I can’t connect my Alpaca paper account. Description:
I could connect regular account but when I select only paper account button allow is disabled. When I pick both only real account is avaibale in the trigger dropdown.

Much appreciated any help.

Hi , could you share some screenshots if possible?

When I pick both I can see after connect only trading account, not paper one.

Identity is main account only.

Hi , thanks for your information. I’ll try to reproduce your issue.

Hi @URV1X5N2H, you may need to take a look at this

Hey , I can reproduce the behavior, though could you share the specific paper action/API that you want to use with your Alpaca Paper Account?

I did not try even to reach any API, but this is the same contract but you just specify account ID. For that it seems it need to appear in dropdown list

or you mean something else?

Sorry to hear you are having trouble. Can you please let us know what is the nocode component related to Alpaca that you are trying to use?

The reason I am asking is because when I select the action “Get Account Info” (which is listed as a pre built action in the list from the screenshot above) I am able to toggle between to use Paper to TRUE or FALSE

That said, when you use the code example that is shown when you connect Alpaca from the app store (or when you select “Use Any Alpaca API in Node.js” from the list of prebuilt actions) this code doesn’t specify to use Paper API or not, because it is meant to just demostrate to the user the the Alpaca account can be connected properly, and is meant to serve as scaffolding which code is expected to be modified by the end user.

I don’t understand what the issue is.

I use place_order component

for “Get account info” I also can switch between api. Maybe it is specific for endpoint indeed, and placing orders is not possible via api for paper account

Did you look for the “Paper API” prop? For I reason that I don’t know, the “Paper API” prop for the “place order” component is an optional prop, meaning you need to enable it. Did you press on it for it to become enabled?

Ah, now I see it. Thank you for your help . I just added Paper API attribute and now I can use it.

You are very much welcome :slightly_smiling_face: Happy to help!

PS - Here is a link to Pipedream documentation with further reading on Optional vs Required Props.

much appreciated!