Quick way to list current bets info

[evan66]

To get list of current bets I use:

listCurrentOrders

then use:
listMarketCatalogue RUNNER_DESCRIPTION to get horse names

then use:
listEvents to get venue name

then use:
listMarketCatalogue MARKET_START_TIME to get race start time (UK time)

This gives me:
£2 Back, Mr Horse, Sandown, 14.00


Thats four API calls
Is there a quicker / shorter way to get this info.

I’ve looked on BetFair API docs, and can’t see any other way.

Thanks,
Evan

[jabe]

If you've called listMarketCatalogue to get horse names, why would you call it again for start time? Store it and keep it stored! Same with venues. One call early in your program, not one every time you want to check how your bets are going. Get all the marketCatalogues you're likely to need at the start of your program.

If you've already placed bets on an event, you've already got most of that stuff once.

If you can do something once, that's plenty. MarketCatalogue data isn't going to change while your prog is running. MarketBook data is going to change - it tells you the new odds, what money's available, whether there have been horses withdrawn from races.

To get the data you want requires one call - listCurrentOrders.

Good luck!

[evan66]

Oh yea, I called listMarketCatalogue twice. That was stupid.
Ok. Thanks

[jabe]

I've been writing programs for more than 40 years, so I've had a lot of time to get used to these things. Not so easy when you're learning everything new at the same time as writing something really complicated, though that's essentially what happened with me and my mega-complicated (and still incomplete) program in VB.NET, which was largely new to me - especially the object/class stuff.

But, in general, a program has three parts - setting up what you need (initialisation - including, in this case, all the API calls to get data that you know won't change for the duration of the current run), doing whatever your program is written to do, and then clearing up nicely at the end.

The initialisation in mine collects so much data that I save it to a file, so if I have to restart the program, it can get the data from the file instead of getting it from the API all over again.

[evan66]

Yeah, that's a good idea, storing some of the data on file. I'll look into it.
Thanks jabe.