How to Connect Your Zerodha Account to TradeCraft (Free Kite Connect API)

To connect Zerodha to TradeCraft, you create a free Kite Connect Personal app in Zerodha's developer console, whitelist the static IP that TradeCraft gives you, and paste the app's API key and API secret into TradeCraft. It takes about 15 minutes once. After that, connecting is a 20-second Kite login each morning.

Before you start

• A Zerodha account you can log in to with your password and 2FA.
• A laptop or desktop. The Kite developer console works on a phone, but copying keys between tabs is much easier on a computer.
• One sitting of about 15 minutes. TradeCraft holds your IP address for 90 minutes while you finish. If you need longer, reopen the connect window and the hold is extended.
• No payment. The free Personal plan places orders, which is all TradeCraft needs from Zerodha.

You will move between two browser tabs: TradeCraft and Zerodha's developer console. Keep both open.

Step 1: Get your static IP from TradeCraft

Brokers only accept API orders from an IP address registered on your account. TradeCraft gives each account its own address, so start here.

1. Log in to TradeCraft and open Brokers in the sidebar.
2. Under Link a Broker Account, find Zerodha and click Connect.
3. The Register your trading IP window opens with an address, such as 203.0.113.25. Click the copy button next to it.

Leave this tab open. You come back to it in Step 6.

Step 2: Sign up for the Kite developer console

The developer console is a separate account from your normal Kite login.

1. Open developers.kite.trade/signup.
2. Fill in E-mail, Your name, Password, Repeat password, Phone and State of residence. Use the email linked to your Zerodha account if you can.
3. The form has an optional IP Whitelist box. Paste the IP from Step 1 here, one per line, to save yourself Step 3.
4. Read the terms, tick I agree to the above terms and click Signup.

Already have a developer account? Log in at developers.kite.trade/login instead.

Step 3: Whitelist your TradeCraft IP

Skip this if you pasted the IP during signup and it shows up on your profile.

1. In the developer console, open your Profile.
2. In the IP Whitelist section, paste the IP from Step 1 as your primary IP.
3. Save.

Step 4: Create a free Personal app

1. Open My Apps and click Create New App.
2. Choose Personal (free). Do not pick Connect — that is the ₹500-a-month plan with market data, which TradeCraft does not need.
3. Fill in the form:

4. Click Create.

Step 5: Copy your API key and API secret

1. Open the app you just created from My Apps.
2. Copy the API Key.
3. Click Show API Secret and copy the API Secret.

Never post the secret in a chat or a screenshot. Anyone with both values and a login to your Zerodha account could place orders through your app.

Step 6: Connect in TradeCraft

1. Go back to the TradeCraft tab. In the Register your trading IP window, click I've registered it.
2. The Connect Zerodha window opens. Paste your API Key and API Secret.
3. Click Connect.
4. Zerodha's login page opens. Log in with your Kite user ID, password and 2FA code.
5. You come back to TradeCraft and see Connected!. A couple of seconds later you are on the Brokers page, with your Zerodha account listed under Connected Accounts.

That's it. Your Zerodha account can now take part in mirror trading and live strategies.

Every morning: log in again

Zerodha ends every API session at 6 AM the next day. This is a regulatory rule, and no platform can skip it. Until you log in again, TradeCraft cannot place orders in that account.

1. Open Brokers in TradeCraft. The account shows Session expired (tokens reset daily at 6 AM).
2. Click Reconnect. Your API key and secret are already filled in.
3. Click Reconnect again and log in to Kite.

Logging out of Kite Web ends the session too, so avoid the Logout button on Kite during market hours if you rely on TradeCraft that day.

If something goes wrong

Still stuck? Write to [email protected] with the exact error message. Never include your API secret.