How do I get Horse racing form from the API?

[munchine]

I'm looking to extract the racing form but cannot see how to do it (or even if it's possible) from market catalogue. From the browser, the betfair website is extracting it from https://www.racingandsports.com.au/e...meeting=174510

What I like to do it extract the horse's previous race performance; the class of race, placing and margin.

is this doable from the betfair api?

[geoffw123]

You can get horse recent form from the data returned form listMarketCatalogue API call. The API-NG spec details it.
The metadata contains


DAMSIRE_YEAR_BORN
SIRE_NAME
SIRE_YEAR_BORN
WEIGHT_UNITS
STALL_DRAW
WEIGHT_VALUE
DAMSIRE_BRED
SEX_TYPE
SIRE_BRED
TRAINER_NAME
BRED
FORECASTPRICE_NUMERATOR
FORM
OWNER_NAME
JOCKEY_NAME
runnerId
DAM_YEAR_BORN
AGE
COLOURS_DESCRIPTION
DAM_NAME
CLOTH_NUMBER_ALPHA
DAM_BRED
FORECASTPRICE_DENOMINATOR
DAYS_SINCE_LAST_RUN
DAMSIRE_NAME
OFFICIAL_RATING
COLOUR_TYPE
CLOTH_NUMBER

[munchine]

This metadata isn't sufficient, the FORM it returns is in the format '345x8', I want to know what class was that race, what was the margin, what was the weight. How do I get that via Betfair

[jabe]

Nothing further available via the API. You'll have to acquire it elsewhere. You could try scraping it from another site. I understand the HTMLAgility package package makes that kind of thing easier.

[bfexplorer]

https://youtu.be/7yZ2loBq28Y?list=PL...1TpalMOzGmMwsh