Application key passed is invalid

[OliasOfSunhillow]

Hi

I have got the Login working fine using Python but when I call up GetEventypes using the sample python code provided here, it fails with Application key passed is invalid. This seems odd as the App key worked fine with the login. If anyone has any suggestions I would be grateful.

[Guest]

Hi the login process does not require a session token, however all other calls will. Therefore what this means is that once you login successfully you need to grab that Session token and use it with your Key (live or delayed) to make any calls.

Here is the code to login and grab session token (SSOID).

  Public Function LoginSessionBetfair(username As String, password As String) As String
        'OK SO THIS FUNCTION TAKES THE USERNAME AND PWD AND RETURNS A SESSION ID (SSOID)

        Dim ssoid As String = [String].Empty
        Dim info As String()
        Dim sessToken As String = ""

        Try
            Dim uri As String = String.Format("https://identitysso.betfair.com/api/login?username={0}&password={1}&login=true&redirectMethod=POST&product=home.betfair.int&url=https://www.betfair.com/", username, password)
            Dim myRequest As HttpWebRequest = DirectCast(WebRequest.Create(uri), HttpWebRequest)
            myRequest.Method = "POST"
            myRequest.Timeout = 5000

            Dim thePage As WebResponse = myRequest.GetResponse()
            info = thePage.Headers.GetValues("Set-Cookie")

            Dim i As Integer = 0
            While ssoid = [String].Empty AndAlso i < info.Length
                If info(i).Contains("ssoid=") Then
                    ssoid = info(i)
                End If
                i += 1
            End While
            'This returns text like ssoid=KY8FBhBU26jP3M9EDE4NogOm9XfH5xJDR49BlJI0lac=; Domain=.betfair.com; Path=/
            sessToken = ssoid.Replace("ssoid=", "") 'Dump front string
            sessToken = sessToken.Replace("; Domain=.betfair.com; Path=/", "") 'dump rear string

            If sessToken.Length <> 0 Then
                frmBetBot.txtLog.Text = ("Login successful")
                frmBetBot.tsbBetfairConnect.Image = My.Resources.star_green
                myBFdata.Connection = ENUM_BETFAIR_CONNECTION.Connected
            Else
                frmBetBot.txtErrorLog.Text = ("Login Problem")
                frmBetBot.tsbBetfairConnect.Image = My.Resources.star_red
                myBFdata.Connection = ENUM_BETFAIR_CONNECTION.NotConnected
            End If

        Catch ex As System.Exception
            frmBetBot.txtErrorLog.Text = ("Login Problem" & vbCrLf & ex.Message)
            frmBetBot.tsbBetfairConnect.Image = My.Resources.star_red
            myBFdata.Connection = ENUM_BETFAIR_CONNECTION.NotConnected

        End Try
        Return sessToken '~~> Should work ok if Login a success
    End Function 'Session Token and Login

Here is code to get ListEvents where we are passing in Application Key (myBFdata.sKeyInUse) and Session Token (myBFdata.sSessionID)

    '##############################################################################################
    '###  LIST EVENTS BETFAIR     WORKS WELL BUT I RARELY USE THIS                              ###
    '##############################################################################################
    Public Sub ListEventsForBetfair(Optional ByVal bWriteToLogBox As Boolean = False)

    Dim client As JsonRpcClient = Nothing  
        frmBetBot.clbListBetfairEvents.Items.Clear()
        clientBF = New JsonRpcClient(myBFdata.URL, myBFdata.sKeyInUse, myBFdata.sSessionID)

        Try
            Dim marketFilterBF = New MarketFilter()
            Dim eventTypesBF = clientBF.listEventTypes(marketFilterBF)

            'Dim eventypeIds As ISet(Of String) = New HashSet(Of String)()              'RECORDS 

            For Each item As EventTypeResult In eventTypesBF
                If item.EventType.Name.Equals("Horse Racing") Then
                    '    txtLog.Text = txtLog.Text & vbCrLf & ("Found event type for Horse Racing: " & JsonConvert.Serialize(Of EventTypeResult)(eventType))
                    '    eventypeIds.Add(eventType.EventType.Id)
                    frmBetBot.clbListBetfairEvents.Items.Add(item.EventType.Name & " (ID=" & item.EventType.Id & ")", True)
                Else
                    frmBetBot.clbListBetfairEvents.Items.Add(item.EventType.Name & " (ID=" & item.EventType.Id & ")", False)
                End If
                If bWriteToLogBox = True Then frmBetBot.txtLog.Text = frmBetBot.txtLog.Text & vbCrLf & item.EventType.Name & " (ID=" & item.EventType.Id & ")"
            Next item
            myBFdata.Connection = ENUM_BETFAIR_CONNECTION.Connected
            frmBetBot.tsbBetfairConnect.Image = My.Resources.star_green

        Catch ex As System.Exception
            'The session token passed is invalid
            frmBetBot.txtErrorLog.Text = "Market Filter Problem - Not connected"
            myBFdata.Connection = ENUM_BETFAIR_CONNECTION.Connected
            frmBetBot.tsbBetfairConnect.Image = My.Resources.star_green
        End Try
    End Sub

[OliasOfSunhillow]

Thanks for getting back to me. Here is my Python code lifted from the sample on here. Yes you are correct the app code is not needed for login. My code however fails at the Print 'Exception from API-NG' line in GetEventypes despite the fact that I am using the app code I generated via the visualizer on here


#!/usr/bin/env python

#A simple program.

import requests

import urllib
import urllib.request
import urllib.error
import json
import datetime
import sys

def callAping(jsonrpc_req):
try:
req = urllib.request.Request(url, jsonrpc_req.encode('utf-8'), headers)
response = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
jsonResponse = response.read()
return jsonResponse.decode('utf-8')
except urllib.error.URLError as e:
print (e.reason)
print ('Oops no service available at ' + str(url))
exit()
except urllib.error.HTTPError:
print ('Oops not a valid operation from the service ' + str(url))
exit()

################################################

def getEventTypes():
event_type_req = '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "SportsAPING/v1.0/listEventTypes", "params": {"filter":{ }}, "id": 1}'
print ('Calling listEventTypes to get event Type ID')
print (headers)
print (' done')
eventTypesResponse = callAping(event_type_req)
eventTypeLoads = json.loads(eventTypesResponse)

try:
eventTypeResults = eventTypeLoads['result']
return eventTypeResults
except:
print ('Exception from API-NG' + str(eventTypeLoads['error']))
exit()

################################################

appKey = 'xxxxx'

payload = 'username=xxxxx&password=xxxxxxxx'
headers = {'X-Application': appKey, 'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}

resp = requests.post('https://identitysso.betfair.com/api/certlogin', data=payload, cert=('client-2048.crt', 'client-2048.key'), headers=headers)

if resp.status_code == 200:
resp_json = resp.json()
print ("login OK")

sessionToken = resp_json['sessionToken']

else:
print ("Request failed.")


url = "https://api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/json-rpc/v1"

headers = {'X-Application': appKey, 'X-Authentication': sessionToken, 'content-type': 'application/json'}

eventTypesResult = getEventTypes()

#horseRacingEventTypeID = getEventTypeIDForEventTypeName(eventTypesResult, 'Horse Racing')

#print ('Eventype Id for Horse Racing is :' + str(horseRacingEventTypeID))

[OliasOfSunhillow]

Manage to solve it myself, it was one of those Homer Simpson mistakes. I was using the app key ID and not the Appkey code. I suppose this is easily done as the only thing displayed in the visualizer is the ID, you have to click on it to get the codes. I wonder if others have fallen foul of this simple error. Oh well onwards and upwards