Betfair: Exchange Streaming API API

Overview

API to receive streamed updates. This is an ssl socket connection of CRLF delimited json messages (see RequestMessage & ResponseMessage)

Betfair: Exchange Streaming API is an entertainment API from betfair.com. It needs no API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 1 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication

No auth

HTTPS

Yes

CORS

Unknown

Category

Entertainment

Base URL

http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api

Version

1.0.1423

Endpoints

1

OpenAPI

Specification ↗

Spec updated

2021-06-21

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

curl -X POST "http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api/request" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

const response = await fetch("http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api/request", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "POST",
    "http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api/request",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Questions