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Tony, but do you understand that betfair controls which account has delayed api access and which one not?

It is not me, betfair software vendor. I have api access as you, using my app key, and it is full api access.

So if it was true, what betfair support is trying to suggest you, that my app is causing your problems, that is simply not true, because then none of my users, nor me whould have full api access. 

Bfexplorer is asigned app key to access api, but any other restrictions are done by betfair only.

I have funds in my account, last time I had zero balance was 4 years ago when I first opened my account, I have never been more than a week without placing any bets and my last bets were placed last friday morning before this first happened with my software. I have contacted Betfair and they guaranteed I have no restrictions on my account and for any further details regarding this issue, I should contact my third party trading software support which originated this issue. 

Betfair switches delayed api for any account with zero balance, or not activate accounts.

Not activate account means that you did not place matched bet on betfair for more than 3 months, just do so, place a matched bet and after it is settled I believe your next login to betfair with any betfair api app will reactivate your full api access.

Place your bet through betfair web page, on betfair exchange, of course.

This project had been originally posted on developer.betfair.com

Looking for someone to help with some horse racing data analytics

Here is my implementation.

I will summarize it shortly for others looking for any betfair strategy development.

None of betfair apps can offer pre-built strategies where you just set parameters and all is done magically for you.  Such simple strategies are built exactly only for preset features, and if you need any changes or additions to these features, it is not possible to do so without changing application code.

Some of betfair apps offer Excel integration where your strategy can be built just on betfair odds and traded volume formulas, anything else must be programmed in Visual Basic code.

Bfexplorer offers all base bots for placing bets (back/lay bets, back/lay dutching bets) or executing trading session for required profit or loss target.  All these base bots can be used itself and you can create simple strategies just by setting bot parameters, or entry criteria.

Anything else can be programmed using Bfexplorer BOT SDK, and such bot is automatically integrated into bfexplorer, and so can be used by all other tools bfexplorer offers, mainly by Bot Executor tools, or by Bfexplorer Console. In all these cases, bfexplorer acts like development environment, to retrieve betfair data, or any other required data for particular market.    

Your custom built bot is available only for you it is not available publicly to all bfexplorer users.

On the forum you can find a lot of examples, and on github you can download source code for a lot simple bot scripts.

Contact me through support web page, or by info email, so we can discuss specification to your bot that will gather required data from live markets. I have added short video showing some data Bfexplorer BOT SDK can offer for developers, but in your case, we will use mainly meta data betfair offers (trainer and jockey names), and of course BSP on markets which are turned at in-play, and the winner of the race.

Custom built bot code can save data in any required format, most used is plain text format of CSV file that can be open by Excel, and by other tools you will use data analyzing or building your machine learning model.

Thanks for the response again.

Since we last spoke, I have taken your advice on board and learned a lot about bfexplorer, I have played with the workspace and set something up to look at horse racing by country and familiarised myself with the horse racing markets, watched selections etc. I then went on to apply Place SP Bet bot on a couple of selections, eventually closing out for a profit under Practice Mode. I have learned a lot in the past few days.

I have also now subscribed to professional as I am clear of the benefits of bfexplorer, and to show the intent I have.

To answer your question, at this stage is the data recording I need. The original request I made (the post copied over from bdp), well I can extract that information from the various UK/Ire resources we have, but I can't get that information for other countries, namely Australia and USA. Based on your feedback, my aim therefore is to build bespoke app using Bfexplorer BOT SDK, or build just bot to retrieve required data for horse racing markets on live data, but this is certainly above my levels of programming and something I would pay for your time to help me with if you have the desire?

From our discussion on bdp, jockey historic information is not available, therefore it seems we cannot get 2 years of historic data for what I want, but we can set it up to start recording it now through one of the 2 ways mentioned above.

So I guess my goal is redefined to this;

Record and save the below information for each race from UK/Ire, USA and Australia going forward;

- Race ID

- Racecourse

- Country

- Date

- Horse Name

- Trainer

- Jockey

- BSP

- Position (or win / lose)

From here, I can then start to work on the bot process to identify what matches my criteria to set this up in bfexplorer.

Thanks.

The question is what is your own experience in required skills?

From your specification: “data extraction” and “data analytics”.

If you already have this historical data then you need to create your model, where from your data you are able to take some conclusions.

For instance by entering parameters like Horse Name, Trainer, Jockey and so on, your model can return probability values for each horse (trainer, jockey) to win a race. This probability is then taken by bfexplorer bot as trigger to initiate bet placing or not.

So from this point of view all you need to learn in bfexplorer are those two features:

My Strategies / Bots to Execute

Strategy / Bot Executor

Many thanks for feedback, I am actively learning the software to get used to how bfexplorer works. 

Traded data use case scenario. 

When you open bfexplorer.net web page, on the home page:

http://bfexplorer.net/Home

There is list of main features, the same can be found:

http://bfexplorer.net/Products/ProductFeatures

These twelve main features describe how to use bfexplorer app for your betting, trading or automated execution of different betfair strategies.

I hope you have managed to open bfexplorer and login to betfair that is the starting point.

So after opening bfexplorer app and login to betfair, bfexplorer app shows Event Browser view, loaded with Upcoming in-play events.

When selecting any market in grid view of the Event Browser, the Execute in Strategy / Bot Executor toolbar icon is activated. That means that you can do what “Execute in Strategy / Bot Executor” sentence would suggest, so start your bot strategy on markets loaded to Event Browser grid view.

You want to execute your strategy on greyhounds markets; it means you need to open greyhounds markets to the Event Browser. You want to execute some strategy, so it means you need to define such strategy adding it to “My Strategies / Bots to Execute” view.

Your key features you need to familiarize yourself are:

Market navigation and browsing

Place bet, Execute till target profit

Strategy / Bot Executor

Just browsing forum, you can find a lot of examples for above three features.

Bfexplorer offers bot named: “Execute Till Target Profit”, so bot suitable to execute sequential bets till target profit/loss is reached. The bot places next bet in sequence only when previous bet is settled, so it is known that bet is winner, and/or loss.

In your strategy you use “Reular Time Goals” market, so your bets are not settled when period ends, but only when matched ends.

To execute your strategy you need ice hockey live score, so bot needs to know which period is played, and what the correct score is.

Yes, the strategy can be programmed. If you are familiar with some programming language then you can use Bfexplorer BOT SDK to program your ice hockey strategy bot.

Your subscription code was assigned to you, I can see it had been generated.

If you have problems then you must understand that activation of subscription code and as well activation of your api access is done on betfair servers. If you still cannot login then betfair simply blocks your access, it is done so for not used accounts, accounts with zero balance, and of course for blocked accounts.

Therefore please ask betfair. If you did not bet for more than 3 months, or have zero balance on your account, then deposit and place a bet on betfair, the matched one. This helps to reactivate api access.

Advice from Peter Webb from betangel forum:

Perhaps see if there has been a big price change with no change is score line on the correct score market?

It is really funny but this best software on the betfair world:

“Bet Angel is the premier software for trading on Betfair. Used by professionals all over the world, Bet Angel has been developed by traders who use it as their primary tool. Introduced in 2004, Bet Angel is constantly developed with more features and improved performance over any alternative software.”

Have no support for live score match data in automation!

Yes, you start your custom built bot assembly with app:  Bfexplorer.exe

Do you really think you will manage to program your bot, having such big problems when debugging bot code? I think you should find bot developer, or just send me specification for your custom bot.

BotUI.exe == Bfexplorer.exe I realized right?

The latest version Bfexplorer no BotUI.exe, but he needs to start MyCSharpBot.

Where possible find and download BotUI.exe ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\BeloSoft\Bfexplorer\Bfexplorer.exe

And here is the result.

Well, yes it would be a good idea to optionally execute "Close Market Bet Position" bot, after dutching bet is matched.

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