Betfair JSON Feed (Feedback from BF would be good please)

**geoffw123** · 30-12-2015, 02:51 PM

Hello Betfair Developer Support

Any chance of a comment please on whether it is OK to use this service ?

I will assume that no reply means that it is OK to use in a responsible manner.

Thanks for your time.

Geoff

**Lopiner** · 30-12-2015, 03:09 PM

GEOFFW123, you can mimic the request that the browser does when on the website, i think it's fairly straightforward from what i can remember. I dont know the frequency of requests that you are able to do but check out the the frequency that the browser does and follow the same refresh rate.

**BetfairDeveloperProgram** · 30-12-2015, 04:59 PM

Originally posted by geoffw123 View Post

Hello Betfair Developer Support

Any chance of a comment please on whether it is OK to use this service ?

I will assume that no reply means that it is OK to use in a responsible manner.

Thanks for your time.

Geoff

Hi Geoff,

Sorry for the late reply.

This isn't a supported API service and therefore if its used in an automated fashion you may find that your requests are blocked without notice.

Thanks

Neil

**geoffw123** · 30-12-2015, 07:37 PM

Hello Neil

Thanks for the reply.

It is a little disappointing to read that the request might be blocked.

The alternative would be to web scrape the score off your main page.

So for a single game that would mean approximately an 800 kilobyte download every 10 seconds, compared to 800 bytes or so for that web service call. In other words your Server would be getting hammered 1000 times harder per call.

Isnt that an argument to say that this web service isnt officially supported but it will be tolerated if used responsibly ?

Any chance you could please raise this issue with Betfair Management to point out the loading argument above and also say it is a feature that has been requested numerous times both on this forum and also by Betfair App users. Sadly, it is a huge obvious feature requirement that is missing from the official API.

Thanks for your time

Geoff

**Lopiner** · 31-12-2015, 03:53 PM

Geoff, you can always use it as the browser does, no one will care because it's the same effort on the servers as the browser and no one will know because you can always mimic the request as coming from a browser.
If you scrape it, the html, it will be exactly the same but as you mention, a lot more bandwidth.

**BetfairDeveloperProgram** · 06-01-2016, 11:41 AM

Hi Geoff,

Sadly, it is a huge obvious feature requirement that is missing from the official API.

Unfortunately, this isn't a feature we've been able to provide for commercial reasons. Although it's something that we'd clearly like to surface via a supported API service.

Isnt that an argument to say that this web service isnt officially supported but it will be tolerated if used responsibly ?

Yes, as per Lopiner comments, if usage is the same as that of a web browser.

Thanks

Neil

**lawred2** · 25-01-2016, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by geoffw123 View Post

Hello

Not sure if this already common knowledge but I stumbled across an interesting discovery today. The Betfair website utilises a JSON feed for live scores. This could be very useful for App writers to display a live score in football or Tennis matches.
This feature is sadly lacking from the API so I am wondering if I could also use it ?

For example, here is a snippet for one game I just captured, all sorts of useful information.

Code:

[{
	"eventId": 27610980,
	"eventTypeId": 1,
	"marketId": "1.121991682",
	"marketName": "Match Odds",
	"relevance": 0,
	"eventName": "Mordovia Saransk v Terek Grozni",
	"competitionName": "Premier Division",
	"competitionId": "101",
	"numberOfRunners": 3,
	"countryCode": "RU",
	"startTime": "2015-12-03T16:00:00.000Z",
	"runners": {
		"runner1Name": "Mordovia Saransk",
		"runner2Name": "Terek Grozni",
		"drawName": "The Draw",
		"runner1SelectionId": 4045119,
		"runner2SelectionId": 939625,
		"drawSelectionId": 58805
	},
	"homeName": "Mordovia Saransk",
	"awayName": "Terek Grozni",
	"broadcasts": {
		"tv": [],
		"radio": {
			"url": "http://radio.betfair.com"
		},
		"bfLiveVideo": {
			
		},
		"isLiveVideoAvailable": false,
		"isDataVisualizationAvailable": true
	},
	"state": {
		"eventTypeId": 1,
		"eventId": 27610980,
		"score": {
			"home": {
				"name": "Mordovia Saransk",
				"score": "0",
				"halfTimeScore": "0",
				"fullTimeScore": "",
				"penaltiesScore": "",
				"penaltiesSequence": [],
				"games": "",
				"sets": "",
				"numberOfYellowCards": 1,
				"numberOfRedCards": 0,
				"numberOfCards": 1,
				"numberOfCorners": 2,
				"numberOfCornersFirstHalf": 2,
				"numberOfCornersSecondHalf": 0,
				"bookingPoints": 10
			},
			"away": {
				"name": "Terek Grozni",
				"score": "0",
				"halfTimeScore": "0",
				"fullTimeScore": "",
				"penaltiesScore": "",
				"penaltiesSequence": [],
				"games": "",
				"sets": "",
				"numberOfYellowCards": 0,
				"numberOfRedCards": 0,
				"numberOfCards": 0,
				"numberOfCorners": 0,
				"numberOfCornersFirstHalf": 0,
				"numberOfCornersSecondHalf": 0,
				"bookingPoints": 0
			},
			"numberOfYellowCards": 1,
			"numberOfRedCards": 0,
			"numberOfCards": 1,
			"numberOfCorners": 2,
			"numberOfCornersFirstHalf": 2,
			"numberOfCornersSecondHalf": 0,
			"bookingPoints": 10
		},
		"timeElapsed": 46,
		"elapsedRegularTime": 46,
		"timeElapsedSeconds": 5,
		"fullTimeElapsed": {
			"hour": 0,
			"min": 0,
			"sec": 0
		},
		"status": "SecondHalfKickOff",
		"matchStatus": "SecondHalfKickOff"
	},
	"matchInfo": {
		
	},
	"inPlayBettingStatus": "InPlay"
},

I would like to know please what is Betfair's policy regarding App. writers using this JSON score feed ?

They may look favourably on it as its just a few hundred bytes to download this zipped JSON string, compared to a 700k download of the full page.

Is anyone else using this live score feed ?

Regards Geoff

Hi Geoff,

Have you got any further detail regarding this json feed?

What's the endpoint etc? Is the request parametrised?

How are you using it?

Betfair JSON Feed (Feedback from BF would be good please)

Betfair JSON Feed (Feedback from BF would be good please)

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