BETFAIR API
Installation
Betfair is available through [Rubygems](rubygems.org/gems/betfair) and can be installed via:
gem install betfair
OR with bundler: ‘gem ’betfair’‘ and `bundle install`
Introduction
irb
require 'betfair'
or from a Gemfile
gem 'betfair'
# create a client for the General API so that you can log in.
bf = Betfair::API.new
If you want to use a proxy or turn on Savon’s logging then just pass in like so:
# This is a local squid proxy I tunnel to from my local
# machine to access the host server in UK for dev purposes.
proxy = 'http://localhost:8888'
logging = true
bf = Betfair::API.new(proxy, logging)
Proxies can be useful if you want to host on a cloud service such as Heroku, as you will be denied access to the Betfair API from the USA. Just proxy via a server from a country that Betfair allows, such as the UK.
At the heart of the Betfair API is the ‘session_token`. In order to get one of these simply call:
session_token = bf.login('username', 'password', 82, 0, 0, nil)
Username and Password are fairly obvious.
82 is the standard Product Id, you may have a different one depending on the level of Betfair API access that you have.
You can ignore the rest as leave as is, but they refer to Vendor Software Id, Location Id, Ip Address as required by the Betfair API.
Read
markets =
bf.get_all_markets(session_token, 1, [1,3], nil, nil, nil, nil)
# We can either pull the market ID out of `markets`, or use a
# stored value:
market_id = 100386338
exchange_id = 1 # or 2 for the Australian exchange
# get_market returns a Hash with the details of the identified
# market, including the commission as
# `details[:market_base_rate]`, and information on the runners
# (including their ids, which you need to place a bet) as
# `details[:runners]`.
details =
bf.get_market(session_token, exchange_id, market_id)
# This returns an encoded string with some back prices and depths
# for the given market.
prices = bf.get_market_prices_compressed(session_token,
exchange_id,
market_id)
helpers = Betfair::Helpers.new
helpers.market_info(details)
helpers.combine(details, prices)
# The get_all_markets api call returns all markets in one huge
# string. This helper provides them all in handy hashes with
# market id as key.
helpers.all_markets(markets)
Bet
bf.place_bet(session_token, 1, 104184109, 58805, 'B', 10.0, 5.0)
bf.cancel_bet(session_token, 1, 16939730542)
Requirements
savon
Requirements for testing
savon_spec
rspec
rake
To Do
-
The WOM of money in Helpers#price_string returns 0 if either all b1,b2,b3 or l1,l2,l3 are all 0
-
Add some error checking to the Betfair::Helper methods
-
Finish of the mash method, to return a nice hash of all market and runner info
-
Write a spec for the mashed method
Contribute
I have only added the Betfair API method calls that I need.
Feel free to fork this repo, add what you need to with the relevant RSpec tests and send me a pull request.
License
(The MIT License)
Copyright © 2011 Luke Byrne
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