Author Topic: Are we any closer to getting bookmaker prices in Market feeder  (Read 2015 times)

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I would be so cool to be able to see bookmaker prices in Marketfeeder, surely this can be done.. please..

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The Terms and Conditions of using the Betfair API specifically prohibit doing this.

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Curiously, after making this post I have noticed that Rebel Betting is listed by Betfair as an authorized app -and they do just what I have said they can't.

It is possible they have changed the T&Cs since I last looked, so I have asked BF the question and will report back.

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If we can do it, would be amazing

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Pity they don't do horses or dogs :-[

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I got an initial response from BF, they say there is a "Commercial Odds Publisher" licence which covers "data aggregation" (their words, not mine  ;) ).

I don't know exactly how this fits with personal use, or if it applies to (say) an MF user creating his own system. I've tried to clarify with BF, but they're a bit slow responding the second time.

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BF did respond, but didn't answer any specifics, so I'll try to guess what the situation is. I'll also give a fuller response for the original question, but I will state that it is some time since I investigated this angle for myself, so some of this info might be out of date...

The licence for data aggregation mentions the word 'commercial', so I have to guess that if you made your own app for personal use, the licence wouldn't apply. However, if WDS added the ability to MF, then I assume they would have to pay for the licence whether a customer used that feature or not. This would no doubt put up the cost of MF. An alternative would be to have this functionality added to MF as (say) a plugin, and charge users for the use of the plugin to cover the licence cost.

As for how easy it would be to include bookies' prices; well, that's not as simple as it sounds...

Some bookies offer an XML data feed of their prices, but often access to these is allowed only if you can send potential customer traffic to that bookie on a regular basis (i.e. new customers).
There are also commercial companies offering access to bookie price data, but of course this comes at yet another cost.
An alternative is to use a web-testing framework, such as selenium (for java, although if IIRC something similar to this will appear in the jvm in the not-too-distant future anyway), which can be used to access the data from the bookies' web sites directly. There are potential problems using this method, e.g. if the bookie changes the way their pages work, the app may cease to - but there are also advantages, mainly that an app could be written to place bets at the bookie's automatically; one of the features I was particularly interested in!  ;D

 

Please note, BetFair is seems to be currently OFFLINE