Interactive brokers TWS API Python, how to get trading day info

Question

Interactive Broker's TWS software has a way of showing trading day information, ie if the exchange was closed for this day and if open what the trading hours where. See here: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=22063

How do I retrieve this information via the relatively new TWS API?

I could not find it anywhere in the docs.

Answer 1

reqContractDetails(id, contract) will return a contractDetails object with tradingHours as a field.

Here's a sample of using the new API. Just call reqContractDetails instead of market data. There's a EWrapper callback for contractDetailsEnd that will be called when the API is finished sending data as there may be more than one contract.