# Lunar API

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The API is used by your custom scripts to directly send requests to Lunar to buy/sell tokens
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## 1. Setup

* You can find examples of the code (in python and golang) [here](https://github.com/jerempjerem/lunar-api)
* Use this in your custom scripts

## 2. Task Creation

* You need to create a DeFi Extension [task](/extension/lunar-task-creation.md) and turn it on for Lunar to receive your API requests

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The API is very basic, if high demand we will release a more advanced version that will support

* Live editing from API
* Task Creation from API
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