What am I missing here?

[kinch577]

Either I'm being really stupid (likely) or I'm missing something obvious... but how does one login to the games api? I've looked through the source code for the uber client, and all I can see is a http request, and I don't have visual studio installed so I can't debug UberClient and take a look at the data packets before they're sent out. Does it use the same session method as the normal API ?

[elmariachi]

Either I'm being really stupid (likely) Does it use the same session method as the normal API ?

No. Its an etirely different way of access. The games API uses REST insetad of SOAP as a protocol.
There is no "sessionToken" at all. You need to submit your username and password with every request again.

Here is a sample:

GET /rest/v1?username=sampleuser HTTP/1.1
Host: api.games.betfair.com
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
gamexAPIPassword: samplepassword

I left out some addtional things like the agentId that you need to get from betfair before getting started, alos the agentinstance is not specified.

Please keep in ming that for non public commands you also need to use POST instead of GET.

Here you can find the games api documentation (Im guessing you got that already): http://bdpsupport.betfair.com/ics/su...p?fileID=43981

The API schema can be found here: http://bdpsupport.betfair.com/ics/su...p?fileID=43852

If youre using java this might be a good place to start: http://bdpsupport.betfair.com/ics/su...p?fileID=44059

What language are you using? I might be able to spin you up an example if I know the language

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[nzbot]

I have posted C# source code for generating a valid agent instance ID:
http://forum.bdp.betfair.com/showthread.php?t=203

[nzbot]

I left out some addtional things like the agentId that you need to get from betfair before getting started, alos the agentinstance is not specified.

Do we really need to get the agent ID from Betfair? I use a custom agent ID, looks like "myname@company.com.xgamesbot.1.0" and an instance ID generated as specified in the doc, it works like a charm (at least in the API test bed).

Betfair guys: What about this? Do we really need to use an agent ID provided by Betfair or can we continue to use our custom agent IDs?

[elmariachi]

Do we really need to get the agent ID from Betfair? I use a custom agent ID, looks like "myname@company.com.xgamesbot.1.0" and an instance ID generated as specified in the doc, it works like a charm (at least in the API test bed).

Betfair guys: What about this? Do we really need to use an agent ID provided by Betfair or can we continue to use our custom agent IDs?

I just repeated what was stated in the reference. If this is not correct anymore .. even better

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[kinch577]

A big thank you to everyone, especially elmariachi. In fact, I had not gotten the API documentation (I remember looking around for it when I first started looking into the API... I found the sports api documentation easily and worked with that first...) Now that I have it, I can actually have some documentation to read that might help! Phew. I'm writing a test-bed in perl (since it's easy and I'm a lazy programmer lol) but I don't know if I'll ever write anything "bigger". This is just a small project for me, I'm not really interested in making a full-featured client. If a perl script works, then stick with it

I've downloaded everything I can find about the games api and will spend a few days reading through it all. Big thanks to everyone here again. Expect to hear from me again in a few days when I respond that I've read through everything and have no idea what I'm doing lol

[elmariachi]

You're welcome.

And please report back when you get it working. Maybe you could write a small howto about getting started with the Games API. There is not much about that around, especially in Perl.

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