Streaming Example

[aye robot]

Liam,

Thanks for posting your library - it's a really helpful thing to do.

If I might ask - why is the app key held in an environment variable? Can't I just load it in from a file like I do the certs?

Mike

[LiamP]

Hi Mike,

Yep:

trading = betfairlightweight.APIClient('username', 'password', app_key='app_key')

However its good practise to keep secrets in environment variables for security and handy when you change a password.

[aye robot]

Thanks Liam, I'm just working through understanding the streaming API and porting my robots over to it now so chances are I'll be back with more questions.

I'm a rubbish programmer so I'm really glad to have your library to work with, it's a massive head start and I really appreciate that you've made it available.

As far as the streaming API goes I'm surprised to see that it actually seems quite simple.