Finding out if a goal has been scored

[99ticks]

I'm just getting into writing betfair bots , I've written one already and plan on writing a second one which requires me to know if a goal has been scored. So I'm looking for advice on what's the best way to get this information programatically using a proper reliable API. As far as I can see the betfair API-NG doesn't supply such a service.

Maybe a 'cheap' way of doing it would be to poll the >0.5 goals market and wait until it closes, has anyone tried this?

Appreciate any comments or feedback,

99ticks

[Mr Magoo]

It's probably faster to monitor the correct score markets, as the prices there will change quicker than waiting for a market to be settled.

There are several live score websites that you could screen-scrape. Betfair have their own goals/cards feed for many matches, you could look at downloading that perhaps?

[99ticks]

Thanks for the reply, I'd rather not use html scraping as this is slow and can be unreliable.

[bnl]

running on Linux, I've had parsing success with something like

lynx -dump -nolist -nostatus -print http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/results

or some other url

It does not make you parse html, but you do need to parse output like

Chasetown 1-1 Stalybridge Celtic
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

   Chesham United 2-0 North Leigh
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

   Didcot Town 4-1 Eastbourne Town
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

   Droylsden 3-4 Gainsborough Trinity
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

   East Thurrock United 3-6 Staines Town
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

   Eastbourne Borough 3-2 Hartley Wintney
   Full time
   (BUTTON) Show

however, I gave it up, since I found it too difficult to map the game back to Betfair games.

Sometimes a team like Manchester United was listed as

Manchester United
M.U.
Manchester U
Manchester Utd
Man Utd
Man U

so I ended up with a table and a team's known aliases.
But I was watching too many countries,
and too many divisions so it just was too difficult to maintain

/Björn

[zoltanthemage]

If you scrape Betfair's HTML/feed, at least you don't have matching issues.

[bnl]

Is that a special html feed ?
Or is it Betfairs frontpage you refer to?

/Björn

[StefanBelo.]

It is betfair feed.

http://bfexplorer.net/Products/Featu...ll Live Scores

[bnl]

Looks really nice.
However, my bot(system) is unattended, and I like to keep it like that. (no GUI = I cannot make mistakes in the heat of the moment ...)

The feed itself, is it Betfair, or is it you
polling and parsing Betfair?

If it is a Betfair feed, I really would like
an URL

/Björn