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Overview

The sample code is intended to demonstrate how you can utilise PHP to call the operations within API-NG and extract the desired output, it is very much a cut down sample and is not intended to be used in a production environment.

The code follows a simple workflow of finding the next horse racing market, displaying prices for the runners and then placing a bet with an invalid stake to trigger an error.

This documentation refers to the code available at https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sample-code/tree/master/php.

Prerequisites

To run the sample code from the command line you must have a php5 cli installed along with the curl module enabled.

Debian linux Installation

In a Debian linux distro you can use the following commands to install the pre-requisites:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php5-cli
sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Run the scripts

JSON-RPC →

php -f jsonrpc.php <appkey> <sessiontoken>

Rescript →

php -f rescript.php <appkey> <sessiontoken>

Code Snippets

Dealing with SSL in PHP

If you have errors relating to SSL certificate issues then you must do one of the following:

1) Quick fix for testing applications, should not be used in production as it may leave you exposed to man in the middle type attacks:

Add the following two lines to the sportsApingRequest function after the curl_init:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

2) Correct fix for production applications:

You will need to make use of the CURLOPT_CAINFO option, and point it to the Betfair PEM formatted certificate (which you can export from your browser). The details of exporting the cert and using this option are beyond the scope of this document but can be found elsewhere online.

Calling API-NG with JSON-RPC protocol

Method and params values need to be change based on the required service operation. You can call batch multiple service operations together and correlate the responses with value of the id field.

Code Block

function sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, $operation, $params)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/json-rpc/v1");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:',
        'X-Application: ' . $appKey,
        'X-Authentication: ' . $sessionToken,
        'Accept: application/json',
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ));

    $postData =
        '[{ "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "SportsAPING/v1.0/' . $operation . '", "params" :' . $params . ', "id": 1}]';

    
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postData);

    $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
    curl_close($ch);

    if (isset($response[0]->error)) {
        echo 'Call to api-ng failed: ' . "\n";
        echo  'Response: ' . json_encode($response);
        exit(-1);
    } else {
        return $response;
    }

}

Calling API-NG with Rescript protocol

Code Block

function sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, $operation, $params)
{
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.betfair.com/rest/v1/$operation/");
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Expect:',
        'X-Application: ' . $appKey,
        'X-Authentication: ' . $sessionToken,
        'Accept: application/json',
        'Content-Type: application/json'
    ));

    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);

    $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));

    $http_status = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);

    if ($http_status == 200) {
        return $response;
    } else {
        echo 'Call to api-ng failed: ' . "\n";
        echo  'Response: ' . json_encode($response);
        exit(-1);
    }
}

Calling listEventTypes to obtain and extract Horse Racing Event Type ID - JSON-RPC

Code Block

echo extractHorseRacingEventTypeId(getAllEventTypes($appKey, $sessionToken));

function getAllEventTypes($appKey, $sessionToken)
{

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listEventTypes', '{"filter":{}}');

    return $jsonResponse[0]->result;
}

function extractHorseRacingEventTypeId($allEventTypes)
{
    foreach ($allEventTypes as $eventType) {
        if ($eventType->eventType->name == 'Horse Racing') {
            return $eventType->eventType->id;
        }
    }
}

Calling listEventTypes to obtain and extract Horse Racing Event Type ID - Rescript

Code Block

echo extractHorseRacingEventTypeId(getAllEventTypes($appKey, $sessionToken));

function getAllEventTypes($appKey, $sessionToken)
{

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listEventTypes', '{"filter":{}}');

    return $jsonResponse;
}

function extractHorseRacingEventTypeId($allEventTypes)
{
    foreach ($allEventTypes as $eventType) {
        if ($eventType->eventType->name == 'Horse Racing') {
            return $eventType->eventType->id;
        }
    }
}

Calling listMarketCatalogue to get next UK horse racing market and print the marketId and runners - JSON-RPC

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printMarketIdAndRunners(getNextUkHorseRacingMarket($appKey, $sessionToken, $horseRacingEventTypeId);

function getNextUkHorseRacingMarket($appKey, $sessionToken, $horseRacingEventTypeId)
{

    $params = '{"filter":{"eventTypeIds":["' . $horseRacingEventTypeId . '"],
              "marketCountries":["GB"],
              "marketTypeCodes":["WIN"],
              "marketStartTime":{"from":"' . date('c') . '"}},
              "sort":"FIRST_TO_START",
              "maxResults":"1",
              "marketProjection":["RUNNER_DESCRIPTION"]}';

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listMarketCatalogue', $params);

    return $jsonResponse[0]->result[0];
}

function printMarketIdAndRunners($nextHorseRacingMarket)
{

    echo "MarketId: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketId . "\n";
    echo "MarketName: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketName . "\n\n";

    foreach ($nextHorseRacingMarket->runners as $runner) {
        echo "SelectionId: " . $runner->selectionId . " RunnerName: " . $runner->runnerName . "\n";
    }

}

Calling listMarketCatalogue to get next UK horse racing market and print the marketId and runners - Rescript

Code Block

printMarketIdAndRunners(getNextUkHorseRacingMarket($appKey, $sessionToken, $horseRacingEventTypeId);

function getNextUkHorseRacingMarket($appKey, $sessionToken, $horseRacingEventTypeId)
{

    $params = '{"filter":{"eventTypeIds":["' . $horseRacingEventTypeId . '"],
              "marketCountries":["GB"],
              "marketTypeCodes":["WIN"],
              "marketStartTime":{"from":"' . date('c') . '"}},
              "sort":"FIRST_TO_START",
              "maxResults":"1",
              "marketProjection":["RUNNER_DESCRIPTION"]}';

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listMarketCatalogue', $params);

    return $jsonResponse[0];
}

function printMarketIdAndRunners($nextHorseRacingMarket)
{

    echo "MarketId: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketId . "\n";
    echo "MarketName: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketName . "\n\n";

    foreach ($nextHorseRacingMarket->runners as $runner) {
        echo "SelectionId: " . $runner->selectionId . " RunnerName: " . $runner->runnerName . "\n";
    }

}

Calling listMarketBook to get volatile price data and print the marketId and runners with best available prices - JSON-RPC

Code Block

printMarketIdAndRunnersAndPrices($nextHorseRacingMarket, getMarketBook($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId));

function getMarketBook($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId)
{
    $params = '{"marketIds":["' . $marketId . '"], "priceProjection":{"priceData":["EX_BEST_OFFERS"]}}';

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listMarketBook', $params);

    return $jsonResponse[0]->result[0];
}

function printMarketIdRunnersAndPrices($nextHorseRacingMarket, $marketBook)
{

    function printAvailablePrices($selectionId, $marketBook)
    {

        // Get selection
        foreach ($marketBook->runners as $runner)
            if ($runner->selectionId == $selectionId) break;

        echo "\nAvailable to Back: \n";
        foreach ($runner->ex->availableToBack as $availableToBack)
            echo $availableToBack->size . "@" . $availableToBack->price . " | ";

        echo "\n\nAvailable to Lay: \n";
        foreach ($runner->ex->availableToLay as $availableToLay)
            echo $availableToLay->size . "@" . $availableToLay->price . " | ";

    }


    echo "MarketId: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketId . "\n";
    echo "MarketName: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketName;

    foreach ($nextHorseRacingMarket->runners as $runner) {
        echo "\n\n\n===============================================================================\n";

        echo "SelectionId: " . $runner->selectionId . " RunnerName: " . $runner->runnerName . "\n";
        echo printAvailablePrices($runner->selectionId, $marketBook);
    }
}

Calling listMarketBook to get volatile price data and print the marketId and runners with best available prices - Rescript

Code Block

printMarketIdAndRunnersAndPrices($nextHorseRacingMarket, getMarketBook($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId));

function getMarketBook($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId)
{
    $params = '{"marketIds":["' . $marketId . '"], "priceProjection":{"priceData":["EX_BEST_OFFERS"]}}';

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'listMarketBook', $params);

    return $jsonResponse[0];
}

function printMarketIdRunnersAndPrices($nextHorseRacingMarket, $marketBook)
{

    function printAvailablePrices($selectionId, $marketBook)
    {

        // Get selection
        foreach ($marketBook->runners as $runner)
            if ($runner->selectionId == $selectionId) break;

        echo "\nAvailable to Back: \n";
        foreach ($runner->ex->availableToBack as $availableToBack)
            echo $availableToBack->size . "@" . $availableToBack->price . " | ";

        echo "\n\nAvailable to Lay: \n";
        foreach ($runner->ex->availableToLay as $availableToLay)
            echo $availableToLay->size . "@" . $availableToLay->price . " | ";

    }


    echo "MarketId: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketId . "\n";
    echo "MarketName: " . $nextHorseRacingMarket->marketName;

    foreach ($nextHorseRacingMarket->runners as $runner) {
        echo "\n\n\n===============================================================================\n";

        echo "SelectionId: " . $runner->selectionId . " RunnerName: " . $runner->runnerName . "\n";
        echo printAvailablePrices($runner->selectionId, $marketBook);
    }
}

Place bet on first runner of the market. Stake is below minimum to prevent actual bet placement - JSON-RPC

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printBetResult(placeBet($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId, $selectionId));

function placeBet($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId, $selectionId)
{

    $params = '{"marketId":"' . $marketId . '",
                "instructions":
                     [{"selectionId":"' . $selectionId . '",
                       "handicap":"0",
                       "side":"BACK",
                       "orderType":
                       "LIMIT",
                       "limitOrder":{"size":"1",
                                    "price":"1000",
                                    "persistenceType":"LAPSE"}
                       }], "customerRef":"fsdf"}';

    $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'placeOrders', $params);

    return $jsonResponse[0]->result;

}

function printBetResult($betResult)
{
    echo "Status: " . $betResult->status;

    if ($betResult->status == 'FAILURE') {
        echo "\nErrorCode: " . $betResult->errorCode;
        echo "\n\nInstruction Status: " . $betResult->instructionReports[0]->status;
        echo "\nInstruction ErrorCode: " . $betResult->instructionReports[0]->errorCode;
    } else
        echo "Warning!!! Bet placement succeeded !!!";
}

Place bet on first runner of the market. Stake is below minimum to prevent actual bet placement - Rescript

Code Block

printBetResult(placeBet($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId, $selectionId)); function placeBet($appKey, $sessionToken, $marketId, $selectionId) { $params = '{"marketId":"' . $marketId . '", "instructions": [{"selectionId":"' . $selectionId . '", "handicap":"0", "side":"BACK", "orderType": "LIMIT", "limitOrder":{"size":"1", "price":"1000", "persistenceType":"LAPSE"} }], "customerRef":"fsdf"}'; $jsonResponse = sportsApingRequest($appKey, $sessionToken, 'placeOrders', $params); return $jsonResponse; } function printBetResult($betResult) { echo "Status: " . $betResult->status; if ($betResult->status == 'FAILURE') { echo "\nErrorCode: " . $betResult->errorCode; echo "\n\nInstruction Status: " . $betResult->instructionReports[0]->status; echo "\nInstruction ErrorCode: " . $betResult->instructionReports[0]->errorCode; } else echo "Warning!!! Bet placement succeeded !!!"; }

Pre requisites:

nodejs - can be found at http://nodejs.org
This document refers to the code found at https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sample-code/tree/master/javascript.

JavaScript and API-NG

This page contains some code snippets of JavaScript interaction with API-NG. The example shows how to use JavaScript to construct and send requests to get list of markets, followed by list of runners for thechosen market and an attempt place a bet.

In the sample code we use the json-rpc and rescript protocols. All requests are sent and received using the JSON format. JavaScript uses node.js platform which allows us to run javascript from the command line. For more information see node.js home page at: http://nodejs.org/.

The application accepts session token and app key as command line arguments and runs in any linux environment that has nodejs installed.

How to run

In order to run this example, install nodejs which can be downloaded from here, set your environment path variable to point to the node executable and invoke a command:

Code Block

language	bash

/<path-to-your-nodejs-bin-directory>/node JsonRpcApiNgClient.js <your app key> <your session token>

Code Snippets

In order to construct the JSON-RPC request to API-NG we need to define mandatory headers that we send per request :

appkey - your app key

ssid - your session token

Code Block

language	javascript

var options = {
    hostname: 'beta-api.betfair.com',
    port: 443,
    path: '/json-rpc',
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
        'X-Application' : appkey,
        'Accept': 'application/json',
        'Content-type' : 'application/json',
        'X-Authentication' : ssid
        }
    }

Example POST request to get horse race id :

jsonRequest - your constructed request object
DEFAULT_ENCODING - set to "utf-8"

Code Block

language	javascript

var requestFilters = '{"filter":{}}';
var jsonRequest = constructJsonRpcRequest('listEventTypes', requestFilters );
var req = https.request(options,function (res){
            res.setEncoding(DEFAULT_ENCODING);
            res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                str += chunk;
            });

            res.on('end', function (chunk) {
                // On resposne parse Json and check for errors
                var response = JSON.parse(str);
                handleError(response);
                // Retrieve id from response and get next available horse race
                getNextAvailableHorseRace(options, response);
            });
            
        });
        // Send Json request object
        req.write(jsonRequest, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
        req.end();

        req.on('error', function(e) {
            console.log('Problem with request: ' + e.message);
            return;
        });
    }

Example POST request to get next available horse races :

eventId - retrieved form previous request
jsonDate - is a current date

Code Block

language	javascript

var requestFilters = '{"filter":{"eventTypeIds": [' + eventId + '],"marketCountries":["GB"],"marketTypeCodes":["WIN"],"marketStartTime":{"from":"'+jsonDate+'"}},"sort":"FIRST_TO_START","maxResults":"1","marketProjection":["RUNNER_DESCRIPTION"]}}';
var jsonRequest = constructJsonRpcRequest('listMarketCatalogue', requestFilters );    
var req = https.request(options,function (res){
            res.setEncoding('utf8');
            res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                str += chunk;
            });

            res.on('end', function (chunk) {
                var response = JSON.parse(str);
                handleError(response);
                // Get list of runners that are available in that race
                getListOfRunners(options, response);
            });
        });
        req.write(jsonRequest, 'utf-8');
        req.end();
        req.on('error', function(e) {
            console.log('Problem with request: ' + e.message);
            return;
        });

Example POST request to get list of runners in the market :

marketId - specify a market that we want to get runners from

Code Block

language	javascript

var requestFilters = '{"marketIds":["' + marketId + '"],"priceProjection":{"priceData":["EX_BEST_OFFERS"],"exBestOfferOverRides":{"bestPricesDepth":2,"rollupModel":"STAKE","rollupLimit":20},"virtualise":false,"rolloverStakes":false},"orderProjection":"ALL","matchProjection":"ROLLED_UP_BY_PRICE"}}';
var jsonRequest = constructJsonRpcRequest('listMarketBook', requestFilters );
var str = '';
var req = https.request(options,function (res){
            res.setEncoding(DEFAULT_ENCODING);
            res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                str += chunk;
            });

            res.on('end', function (chunk) {
                var response = JSON.parse(str);
                handleError(response);
                // Place bet on first runner
                placeBet(options, response, marketId);
            });
        });
        req.write(jsonRequest, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
        req.end();
        req.on('error', function(e) {
            console.log('Problem with request: ' + e.message);
            return;
        });

Example POST request to place a bet on random runner :

selectionId - runner that we want to place a bet on
customerRef - unique reference for that transaction
size - the size of the bet
price - the price of the bet

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language	javascript

var requestFilters = '{"marketId":"'+ marketId+'","instructions":[{"selectionId":"' + selectionId + '","handicap":"0","side":"BACK","orderType":"LIMIT","limitOrder":{"size":"' + size + '","price":"' + price + '","persistenceType":"LAPSE"}}],"customerRef":"'+customerRef+'"}}';
var jsonRequest = constructJsonRpcRequest('placeOrders', requestFilters );
var req = https.request(options,function (res){
            res.setEncoding(DEFAULT_ENCODING);
            res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                str += chunk;
            });
            res.on('end', function (chunk) {
                var response = JSON.parse(str);
                handleError(response);
                console.log(JSON.stringify(response, null, DEFAULT_JSON_FORMAT));
            });
        });
        req.write(jsonRequest, DEFAULT_ENCODING);
        req.end();
        req.on('error', function(e) {
            console.log('Problem with request: ' + e.message);
            return;
        });

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Overview

Prerequisites

Debian linux Installation

Run the scripts

Code Snippets

Dealing with SSL in PHP

Calling API-NG with JSON-RPC protocol

Calling API-NG with Rescript protocol

Calling listEventTypes to obtain and extract Horse Racing Event Type ID - JSON-RPC

Calling listEventTypes to obtain and extract Horse Racing Event Type ID - Rescript

Calling listMarketCatalogue to get next UK horse racing market and print the marketId and runners - JSON-RPC

Calling listMarketCatalogue to get next UK horse racing market and print the marketId and runners - Rescript

Calling listMarketBook to get volatile price data and print the marketId and runners with best available prices - JSON-RPC

Calling listMarketBook to get volatile price data and print the marketId and runners with best available prices - Rescript

Place bet on first runner of the market. Stake is below minimum to prevent actual bet placement - JSON-RPC

Place bet on first runner of the market. Stake is below minimum to prevent actual bet placement - Rescript

Pre requisites:

JavaScript and API-NG

How to run

Code Snippets