Does Interactive Brokers (IB) have a Web friendly API?

External question — Quantitative Finance Stack Exchange Author: jsinghfoss Original post: https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/4337 License: CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. The requirement I am given is to implement a web ppplication which utilizes Interactive Brokers's API to fetch data. I went through the IB API web page and came across two viable methods: TWS and IB Gateway. But both method require proprietary executables to be running. This doesn't make sense from a web perspective as my hosting provider will not allow to run an executable on their infrastructure. Is it not possible to just access their API using Username/Password or some API Key or something similar from a Web Server? If it's not possible could you please share what other companies (like IB) have web friendly APIs.