BF_Events: Betfair Events
In vspinu/betfairly: Access Betfair API from R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Note Author(s) References See Also

Functions to retrieve betfair events (Games, sports, politics etc)

getActiveEventTypes: Allows the customer to retrieve lists of all categories of sporting events (Games, Event Types) that are available to bet on: in other words, all those that have at least one currently active or suspended market associated with them. This means, therefore, that the service would, for example, always return the event types Soccer and Horse Racing but would not return Olympics 2004 or EURO 2004 after those events had finished.

From API 5.0 onwards, the GetEvents service returns details of line and range markets, where these markets are available for an event. Requests for the GetEvents service take as input a parameter called eventParentID. The value of this parameter is either: the (integer) Id value from one item in an array of eventTypeItems that has been returned by the GetAllEventTypes or GetActiveEventTypes services; or an (integer) eventId value from one item in an array of eventItems that has been returned by an earlier GetEvents request. Use the GetEvents service repeatedly, specifying a different value for eventParentId in each request, until there are no further events to request (this means you have reached the leafnode of the branch of the events tree you have been navigating). To retrieve full details of a betting market whose details have been returned by the GetEvents service, you need to send a GetMarket request to the exchange server indicated by the market's exchangeId parameter (see CROSS REFERENCE TEXT NEEDS RESOLVING). This GetMarket request must also specify the marketId for the market you are requesting. Both the exchangeId and the marketId are returned by GetEvents. For information about GetMarket, see Chapter 24 .

getAllEventTypes(locale, output = getOption("bfOutput"), curlOpts = list())

getActiveEventTypes(locale, output = getOption("bfOutput"),
  curlOpts = list())

getEvents(eventParentId = 1L, locale, output = getOption("bfOutput"),
  curlOpts = list())

`locale`	Specify the language for the reply if you want a different language than the account default.
`output`	Indicates the form of the returned value. Can be "simple" (default), "xml", "list" or "S4". See `betfairly-package`.
`curlOpts`	RCurl options passed directly to `curlPerform`. You can also set the defaults with `options(bfCurlOpts = list(opt1 = val1, opt2 = val2, ...))`.
`locale`	Specify the language for the reply if you want a different language than the account default.
`output`	Indicates the form of the returned value. Can be "simple" (default), "xml", "list" or "S4". See `betfairly-package`.
`curlOpts`	RCurl options passed directly to `curlPerform`. You can also set the defaults with `options(bfCurlOpts = list(opt1 = val1, opt2 = val2, ...))`.
`eventParentId`	integer This is either an Id value for a single item (in an array of eventTypeItems returned by GetAllEventTypes or GetActiveEventTypes), or it is an eventId for a single eventItem (in an array of eventItems returned by an earlier GetEvents request).
`locale`	Specify the language for the reply if you want a different language than the account default.
`output`	Indicates the form of the returned value. Can be "simple" (default), "xml", "list" or "S4". See `betfairly-package`.
`curlOpts`	RCurl options passed directly to `curlPerform`. You can also set the defaults with `options(bfCurlOpts = list(opt1 = val1, opt2 = val2, ...))`.

getAllEventTypes: Allows the customer to retrieve lists of all categories of sports (Games, Event Types) that have at least one market associated with them, regardless of whether that market is now closed for betting. This means that, for example, the service would always return the event types Soccer and Horse Racing and would also return Olympics 2004 or EURO 2004 for a certain period after the markets for those events had closed; it would also return Olympics 2004 or EURO 2004 for a certain period before the markets for those events had opened. The service returns information on future events to allow API programmers to see the range of events that will be available to bet on in the near future.

A data frame with columns id nextMarketId and exchangeId; an xml node or S4 object, as specified by the output parameter

A data frame with columns id, nextMarketId and exchangeId; an xml node or an S4 object, as specified by the output parameter

Object of class GetEventsRespSimple which inherits from bfSimpleOutput class. With slots eventItems and marketItems which are data.frames.

The GetActiveEventTypes service is a global service, and it returns information about the events available on both the UK and the Australian exchange servers.

Vitalie Spinu (spinuvit@gmail.com)

http://code.google.com/p/betfairly/, https://docs.developer.betfair.com/betfair/

betfairly-package bfSimpleOutput-class getActiveEventTypes

vspinu/betfairly documentation built on May 3, 2019, 7:08 p.m.