Are Market ID's created in order?

[Jelmer]

Hi,

Is there a way to check which date and time a market was published?

I'm building a script that detects new published markets, but sometimes if it detects a new market the MarketID's are in the right order:
(for example: yesterday evening it detected markets 1.150144908 and 1.150145774 as new: and there was hardly unmatched money in the queue... perfect)

and sometimes it's not the in the right order:
(for example: yesterday 20 minutes later it detected market 1.150131228 to be new - but you see the MarketID is lower than the ones 20 minutes earlier... AND there was a lot of unmatched money in the queue)

So the market most have been opened before? But in the whole 30 days before it never detected market 1.150131228 as published... so I don't think the script missed it...

So is there a way in the betting exchange API where I can find when a market was published?

[only1jake]

I wonder if it's something to do with when Betfair imports scheduled games or races. Ie. They might've created the market but not made it public a lot earlier than when it was scheduled to start. Thus the earlier market Id. But who knows, I'm just taking a guess.

[Jelmer]

Hi Jake, thanks for your answer... I have thought the same thing and it does makes sense... but what doesn't make sense is that there is a lot of unmatched money waiting to be matched for those matches. Could happen, but I think it's isn't a coincidence that when the MarketIDs do come in order, that hardly isn't any money unmatched (with bigger games: Premier League games)

[LiamP]

I have always assumed streaming is the best/quickest way to get new markets, are you polling for this?

[Jelmer]

Hi Liam, Thanks for your answer... What do you mean with streaming? Do you mean the stream API? Haven't heard of it before you mentioned it, I'm a super newbie is this API programming...

What I do now to find new markets is this code:

   $params = '{"filter":{"eventTypeIds":["1"],
              "turnInPlayEnabled": true,
              "marketTypeCodes":["MATCH_ODDS"],
          "marketStartTime":{"from":"'.date("Y-m-d").'T00:00:00Z","to": "'.$stop_date.'T00:00:00Z"}},
              "sort":"LAST_TO_START",
              "maxResults":"600",
              "marketProjection":["EVENT","RUNNER_DESCRIPTION","MARKET_START_TIME"]}';
    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listMarketCatalogue', $params);
    return $jsonResponse;

And if there is a market that I haven't bet on in this 600 results, a bet is placed.

But I assume there is a better way?

[Jelmer]

Is it also possible that a delayed application key is the cause? Will new markets show up earlier if you have a live application key or doesn't it work like that?

[ztmztm]

I guess people with information about this topic are not willing to share it.
BF support might though, them being neutral.