zenbot backfill start and end date bug

[hanassabio]

I am trying to use the syntax for constricted time range of backfilling, yet it is not executing. Please advise!

[DeviaVir]

It looks like backfill is just --days, train does have --start and --end, so looks like a documentation problem.

[hanassabio]

For the <"timestamp"> when running the zenbot, use the Unix syntax timestamp in milliseconds, not as advised in the documentation (YYYYMMDDhhmm). It then works as expected.

Free converter here: https://www.epochconverter.com/

[acecilia]

Hello @hanassabio:
I tried backfill --start=1496620800000 --end=1499212800000 and also backfill --start="1496620800000" --end="1499212800000"
In both cases I keep getting:

error: unknown option `--start'

Any ideas? Thanks!

[hanassabio]

Hi, are you including the "selector" in your code after _backfill_ and before _--start_? See below taken from the main documentation:

[acecilia]

@hanassabio I think I am doing it right:

I am looking at the source code for backfill and I do not see any --start or --end option around

[Frederic-S]

@acecilia found today your issue, maybe late, but the solution is to remove the to underscore in front of 'start' and 'end' --> wrong --start & --end -> Solution start & end . Simple, it work find for me. I hope it will work for you.

[DJCrashdummy]

neither of the suggested solutions work. :frowning_face:

and at the readme there is still the completely wrong syntax mentioned: https://github.com/DeviaVir/zenbot#run-a-simulation-for-your-selector
so this issue is definitely not solved and needs to be reopened!

whereby the best would be to enable backfilling between certain dates (again) - no matter with which syntax, because if i just want to test a specific month/week/etc and have to backfill all data between now and then, it is just a waste of time, space, bandwidth and whatever resources else...

[durek1337]

The problem still exists!

The command

zenbot backfill binance.ZEN-BTC start="1553263560000" end="1553904000000"

results into the same as

zenbot backfill binance.ZEN-BTC

Yes, I also tried the format "YYYYMMDDhhmm".
It always loads the trades of the last 14 days and never the span which would be very helpful.

edit: I forked the repo and I will try to add this feature. I don't know how long it would take but there is a branch for the mode 'backward' with 'target_time' and else 'start_time' and 'target_time'. So maybe the functionality still exists rawly? If someone who is more familiar with the code wants to do the job, i would highly appreciate it.

edit2: I guess I fixed it. Really really simple thing. It's the first time for me participating on open source so after testing I have to look for the conventional process to add it. Stay tuned, I will do this the next days.

edit3: pull request done.

zenbot backfill \

will work after the merge

[DJCrashdummy]

now this is really closed with #1881 by @durek1337. :tada: thank you very much! :clap: