How to Connect HTX to Pilotbot
HTX connects through a browser extension instead of API keys. Install it, stay logged in to HTX, link your account, and let the bot manage your ad prices safely.
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HTX connects differently from Binance and Bybit. HTX has no public P2P API, so there are no API keys to paste. Instead, Pilotbot works through a browser extension that acts inside your own logged-in HTX session — the bot asks it to reprice an ad, and the extension performs that change on htx.com exactly as if you did it by hand.
Why an Extension Instead of API Keys
Binance and Bybit let outside apps manage ads through an API key. HTX does not offer that for P2P. The only way to update an HTX P2P ad automatically is from inside a signed-in HTX browser session — which is exactly what the extension provides. Everything happens under your own account, in your own browser.
Step 1 — Install the Pilotbot Extension
Add the Pilotbot HTX extension to your Chrome browser. You set this up once; after that it runs quietly in the background and keeps your ads managed without you needing to open anything.
Step 2 — Stay Logged In to HTX
Keep a browser tab signed in to htx.com. The extension needs your active HTX session to read your ads and apply price changes. If that tab is closed or logged out, the bot simply can't reach HTX until you sign in again — it never stores your HTX password.
Step 3 — Link Your Account
Link your HTX account from the extension. Once linked, your account appears in the Pilotbot sidebar under your real HTX P2P nickname (not a generic name), just like a Binance or Bybit account.
Step 4 — Your Ads Arrive as Inactive
Pilotbot pulls in your HTX P2P ads, but they start as inactive — the bot does not touch them automatically. This is deliberate: on every exchange, only you decide which ads the bot manages.
Step 5 — Turn the Bot On for the Ads You Want
Flip the "in bot" switch on for each ad you want automated. Only then does Pilotbot start repricing that ad — through the extension — within your safety limits. Turning an ad on in the bot does not change whether it's listed on HTX, and vice-versa; the two switches are independent.
The One-Time Fund-Password Confirmation
HTX asks for your fund password when you change an ad's price by hand. The first time you make one manual price change on htx.com with the extension installed, the extension captures only a scrambled (hashed) form of that confirmation — never the readable password — so the bot can keep applying price changes for you. A few points that matter:
- The bot never sees or stores your real fund password, only the scrambled token.
- The bot can never withdraw or release funds — it only reprices and pauses ads. The fund password is used solely to confirm a price change, exactly as HTX requires from you manually.
- HTX remembers the confirmation for a while and then asks again; if that happens, just make one manual price change again to refresh it.
What the Bot Can and Can't Do on HTX
- Can: read your ads and the market, update your ad prices, and pause/list ads you've turned on.
- Can't: withdraw funds, move crypto, change your HTX security settings, or turn an ad on by itself.
The price is always calculated by Pilotbot's server; the extension only applies the number it's given. Enabling and disabling ads stays entirely your decision.