Getting Volume Data from Exchange API

[OPOPOPOPA]

Hi there,

Can you anyone help me please?

Can you tell me whether the API can?

1. select all HORSE RACES in the United Kingdom and Ireland for the day and then

2. tell me the volume matched for each horse in a race. AND

3. tell me the total volume for each race at the same time.

4. display the 3 back and lay prices for each horse

And allow me to collect that data every minute for say a 12 hour period before a race starts?

If so how can this be done within the API, what commands would I need to use?

What type of API do I need the delayed or live (paid) one to pull up this type of data?

At the moment on the delayed API, I can only monitor 1 race for the whole day.

Thanks so much for your help in advance.

[geoffw123]

Hiya

Yes, with a live API key, you could do all of those things you listed. If you want to build this yourself there are a bunch of provisos though.

1) If you build your own App you will have to pay £299 for a live Betfair API key.
2) Betfair dont like you hoovering up data for long periods without you placing some bets. You would have to place some bets to keep them happy.
3) The features you listed would be a lot of work for you to write from scratch. The other alternative is to use an existing commercial app that has scripting/extensions to customise it to do what you require. (Or maybe the Python Betfair library)

You would have a choice of 2 API's to use if you want to write it yourself, the API-NG API, or the streaming API, just download the 2 spec PDF's, have a read through of how they work and what commands are available, it should be reasonably obvious which commands you need. The API-NG API I would say is slightly easier to understand so try that one first.

Hope that helped a bit

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