Betfair API performance

http://forum.bdp.betfair.com/showthread.php?t=519

The API seems fine. There were performance issues the other day because a new application(s) with a significant user base suddenly started making use of certain API functions. I imagine the API servers had insufficient resources available to meet the sudden demand. BF are working on it.

Cheers Fred. I did wonder what was going on. Good to see you're still botting. ;) I've moved onto pastures new.

API is fine but the BDP site has been stuffed for me on and off for days, the link I gave doesn't currently work for me.

Yes birchy I'm still botting. I thought you were too as I saw your Python API library download on your website. Are you finally making a killing with other online activites?

API is fine but the BDP site has been stuffed for me on and off for days, the link I gave doesn't currently work for me.

-fred77

Didn't work for me either but i've also had the same issues with BDP.

Yes birchy I'm still botting. I thought you were too as I saw your Python API library download on your website. Are you finally making a killing with other online activites?

-fred77

I put the Python library up on my website as i wrote it but never used it for a fully fledged bot, so thought i may as well let others make use of it. And of course it creates extra traffic for my affiliate links which have so far earned exactly £0.

Got promoted to engineering foreman at work so the extra £100 a week diverted my attention.

Finally finished off my sit n' go poker bot when i could be arsed (only took a year or so to complete the basics!). First few "brains" lost £80 over around 400 games which wasn't too bad for a first effort. Did a complete re-write last week - it totally owned the £1 buy-ins and has now stepped up to £2. Only played a few hundred games though, so not sure whether i've (accidentally) perfected the AI or it is simply the luckiest player in the world at present...

Well done on the promotion birchy, that's quite a nice raise. It's about time you had some joy from your bot endevours though, hopefully your poker bot trend will be the real thing.
I got so fed up with sports botting recently that I looked at bf x-games for a break. That was a mistake though, there's slow and there's slow, the margins are so tight and perfect that x-games is ... the perfect vehicle for earning bf commission lol

the margins are so tight and perfect that x-games is ... the perfect vehicle for earning bf commission lol

-fred77

I told you that about 2 years ago. You just don't listen to me, do you Fred. lol

Poker bot is currently on a downswing. Hope it also has an equal upswing at some point in the future. It's my biggest project ever but i HAVE learnt a lot along the way, including how to write firefox extensions.

I'm actually surprised that nobody has written a betfair bot in JavaScript and/or as a Firefox extension. Should be quite straight forward using XMLHttpRequest() and my standard hand-rolled XML technique.

Yes yes I know you said so lol. But as I've said before - if somebody says something is impossible or that they have failed in their own attempts - then that's something I will have a look at (subject to sufficient motivation levels).
I figured x-games success would be down to large funds and betting speed, and with my experience of attempting 1.01 IR horse lays (which I finally gave up on) I thought I might get somewhere. Turned-out to be more a case of having extremely large patience than anything else. I could have used bigger stakes to target the better value bets but couldn't be bothered making my test bot into a proper reliable bot that I'd trust with bigger stakes and funds. The edge is so small that it seems feasible to lose for months before turning a profit.

Talking of javascript, not a bot as such, but the new racingtraders app Evolution is javascript based, I had a quick glance through its code the other week.
I played with greasemonkey on firefox a couple of years back, I managed to do a bf API login but didn't do anything else. There's a few security issues to overcome with javascript - probably why the Evolution app sets up a local proxy to connect through.