DEVELOP CUSTOM APPS & TURBO CHARGE YOUR BETTING STRATEGY!

Integrate Betfair data and betting operations into any kind of application, on any platform. We have the API's, data and tools you need to develop rich, customised betting interfaces for your own use or to distribute to customers.

NEW! Build web-applications! Enable Betfair Exchange betting on your website.

YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING PRODUCTS TO CHOOSE FROM

Exchange API

Create automated betting systems or custom interfaces with the Exchange API.
Read market data, place bets, check current bet details and more.

Overview

Exchange Historical Data

The Betfair Historical Data service provides time-stamped Betfair Exchange data for purchase & download. This data should be used for analysis & test...

Overview

Games API

Integrate with the Betfair Exchange Games system - from creating a new client front-end system to an automated betting application

Overview

Timeform API

Founded in 1948, Timeform’s opinions have widely been accepted as the definitive measure of racing merit and indispensable for betting punters

Overview

Vendor Web Apps API

Enable Betfair Exchange betting on your website using the Vendor Web API and Exchange API.

Overview

Exchange API

Create automated betting systems or custom interfaces with the Exchange API.
Read market data, place bets, check current bet details and more.
Got It
what you can do
The Exchange API is the platform on which developers build customised betting tools and interfaces to use with the Betfair Exchange. You can:
- Build your own trading interface, customised to suit your own trading needs
- Automate a successful trading strategy or algorithm
- Publish Exchange odds on your website as part of our Affiliate Program
- Use Exchange data as part of your business (fees apply)
For Example

Build a spreadsheet that monitors your position on a specific market, calculating the average effective price achieved on each selection taking into account offsetting back and lay bets

Build your own trading interface, customised to suit your own trading needs.

Automate a successful manual trading strategy or algorithm
Useful links
- FAQ's
- Quick Start
- DOCS
Exchange Historical Data

The Betfair Historical Data service provides time-stamped Betfair Exchange data for purchase & download. This data should be used for analysis & test...
Got It
what you can do
The Betfair Historical Data service provides time-stamped Betfair Exchange data for purchase & download.

Using this data you can:
- Access historical Betfair Exchange price & market data.
- View details of historical market settlements.
- Custom filter data prior to download.
- Back test your strategy before going ‘live’.
- Experiment with new sport/market types.
For Example

Export data into .csv format for import into spreadsheets or databases for further processing

Test your manual trading strategies using interfaces that incorporate historical data

Build a simulation model based on Betfair Historical data to back test your betting strategy
Useful links
- Exchange Historical Data
Games API

Integrate with the Betfair Exchange Games system - from creating a new client front-end system to an automated betting application
Got It
what you can do
Using read-only services you can create programmes that:
- Retrieve reference information for a games market
- Retrieve the market prices
- Retrieve your current bets on an event
- Retrieve information on settled bets
- Retrieve your account statement information
- Use this information to calculate and display your own data
Using transactional services:
- Place bets on a games market
- Cancel existing unmatched bets
- Modify existing unmatched bets
- Transfer money from/to your Exchange Games wallet
For Example

Build a spreadsheet that monitors your position on a specific market, calculating the average effective price achieved on each selection taking into account offsetting back and lay bets

Build a programme which will record games data as history into a local database

Build an application that places bets when certain market conditions are met

Build an application that can place offsetting bets conditional on other bets getting matched

Build an application to automate your betting strategy
Useful links
- Quick Start
- Contact Us
- FAQS
- DOCS
Timeform API

Founded in 1948, Timeform’s opinions have widely been accepted as the definitive measure of racing merit and indispensable for betting punters
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what you can do

The Timeform API is available to Betfair customers to access premium content for private or commercial use. It is a REST API that allows you to programmatically retrieve data from the Timeform database.

Since the company was founded in 1948, Timeform’s opinions have widely been accepted as the definitive measure of racing merit and indispensable for betting punters. In the past few years Timeform has increased it's output considerably so that data and content is available for different depths of sophistication – all of which are ready to meet your bespoke needs.

For Example

Enhance your front-end output to attract new punters with Timeform opinion

Improve ‘stickiness’ and ‘dwell-time’ to increase customer retention and loyalty

Brand association with Timeform to encourage customers to bet with confidence
Useful links
- QUICK START
- Documentation
Vendor Web Apps API

Enable Betfair Exchange betting on your website using the Vendor Web API and Exchange API.
Got It

what you can do

Create Web Apps - enable Betfair Exchange betting on any website!

The Vendor Web API is available to licensed Software Vendors to create web-based betting applications. The API operations enable the web application to carry out operations on the users behalf using the OAuth2 protocol.

For Example

Create web-based trading and betting tools

Integrate Exchange odds and betting on your website
Useful links

*Free for personal use, for commercial use we have a range of options.

HOW OUR PRODUCTS COMPARE

- Development Use - Delayed Data
- Betting Use - Live Data
- Commercial Licences Available
- Documentation
- Developer Forum
- REST API
- JSON-RPC
- Stream API
- Sample Code
- Demo Tools
- Exchange API
- FREE
- £299 activation fee
- On application
- Quick Start
- Exchange Historical Data
- Get Started
- Games API
- Quick Start
- Timeform API
- Get Started
- Vendor Web Apps API
- FREE
- £499 license fee
- Quick start