Arbitrage bets finder

[primski]

so I wanted to make one...

turns out XML feed is too slow... UK Soccer Lay Prices takes minutes just to receive the response and often just times out.

free licensed SOAP api access is too restricted to make anything useful. I don't really understand the recommended workflow to retrieve lay prices for, say, soccer matches for the next 24h, but it looks i need to call getMarketPricesCompressed for every market which has 60r/m limit? and first i have to identify which market i need from the list of thousands of markets which i get back from getAllMarkets? that seems horribly unpractical... any better solutions?

thanks

bye

[andyn]

you can double the requests to 120 by also using getCompleteMarketPricesCompressed

If that's not enough you can pay for a full api subscription for £200 per month or £2000 per year

[primski]

ok thanks...

2r/s might be useful, but 200 a month is way too expensive for my zero starting capital for the project.

i have to plan my workflow carefully, to fit into the limits, but generally, they allow data-gathering applications only? i think i stumbled upon a saying that they like to ban/block accounts/ip/apps that only gather info and do not place any bets, is this correct?

[Jolly Roger]

My way of doing it is to do a recursive search on the football event and store data for every market I might be interested in, for me it's usually just Match Odds. Doing this will take about 4 hours if using the free API.

After I've downloaded all this data I can decide which markets I am interested in and only refresh those market's prices. Fortunately for me I only want to make about 200 requests which takes 4 minutes.

Personally I've found this more than adequate.

I hate the £200/month fee as well. I would actually like to give Betfair some money if they could remove some of the restrictions but I'm not making nearly enough money to warrant paying £200 month.