Agent Instance ID Generator

[nzbot]

Hello,

as you probably already know, web requests to the games API require you to provide an agent ID + agent instance ID. A properly formatted agent ID looks like "myname@company.com.xgamesbot.1.0", the agent instance ID is a MD5 hash like "1b7c01a267d5d5a9e18b1fc856622c60" (see API documentation, page 20ff, http://bdpsupport.betfair.com/ics/su...p?fileID=43981.

Following C# code can be used to calculate a valid agent instance ID for your agent ID (MD5, as specified in the API documentation). Create a C# console application and replace the auto generated code by this one. Use copy&paste to copy the generated MD5 from the console to your code or configuration file.

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

namespace MD5Generator
{
    internal class Program
    {
        // Compute MD5 hash code for the given string
        private static string GetMd5Hash(string input) {
            // Create a new instance of the MD5CryptoServiceProvider object
            MD5 md5Hasher = MD5.Create();

            // Convert the input string to a byte array and compute the hash
            byte[] data = md5Hasher.ComputeHash(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(input));

            // Create a new Stringbuilder to collect the bytes and create a string
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

            // Loop through each byte of the hashed data and format each one as a hexadecimal string
            for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++) {
                builder.Append(data[i].ToString("x2"));
            }

            // Return the hexadecimal string
            return builder.ToString();
        }

        private static string GetAgentInstanceId(string agentId) {
            Random random = new Random();
            int randomNumber = random.Next(10000, 99999); // must have 5 digits
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
            builder.Append(DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss:ff"));
            builder.Append("Z");
            builder.Append(randomNumber);
            builder.Append(agentId);
            return builder.ToString();
        }

        private static void Main(string[] args) {
            string agentId = "myname@company.com.xgamesbot.1.0"; // replace this with your own agent ID
            string agentInstanceId = GetAgentInstanceId(agentId);
            Console.WriteLine("Agent ID                 : {0}", agentId);
            Console.WriteLine("Agent Instance ID String : {0}", agentInstanceId);
            Console.WriteLine("Agent Instance ID MD5    : {0}", GetMd5Hash(agentInstanceId));
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Hope, this saves you a little bit time
Best regards!

[elmariachi]

Nice

Thx for this. Will save people a huge amount of time.