betfairlightweight

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Lightweight, super fast (uses c libraries) pythonic wrapper for Betfair API-NG allowing all betting operations (including market and order streaming) and account operations.

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Get started...

>>> import betfairlightweight
>>> trading = betfairlightweight.APIClient(
        "username", "password", app_key="app_key", certs="/certs"
    )
>>> trading.login()

Request all event types..

>>> event_types = trading.betting.list_event_types()
>>> event_types
[<EventTypeResult>, <EventTypeResult>, ..]

Endpoints

• trading.login
• trading.login_interactive
• trading.keep_alive

• trading.logout

• trading.betting

• trading.account
• trading.navigation
• trading.scores
• trading.streaming

• trading.historical

• trading.in_play_service

• trading.race_card

Warning

in_play_service and race_card are not public endpoints so may break, they are used by the betfair.com website.

Dependencies

betfairlightweight relies on these libraries:

• requests - HTTP support

Speed install:

• ciso8601 - C based datetime parsing
• orjson - Rust based json parsing

Installation

Install with pip:

$ pip install betfairlightweight

or to use C/Rust libraries install with

$ pip install betfairlightweight[speed]

betfairlightweight requires Python 3.8+