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It sounds like you are looking at the API-NG which is a json interface rather than the current service which is WSDL-based. API-NG is a new service which is still in development, and in particular the documentation isn't great at the moment. For API-NG this is what I did: <ul> <li>Log in to the Betfair site using a browser with your account credentials.</li> <li>Inspect the session's cookies (in Chrome this is in the Resources tab of the developers tools</li> <li>find the ssoid cookie value - that is your session token to use in this <a href="https://api-ng.betstores.com/account/" rel="nofollow">test page</a></li> <li>create an application key using your application name</li> <li>use the examples code on the betfair <a href="https://github.com/betfair/API-NG-sample-code" rel="nofollow">api-ng github</a> to get started</li> </ul> On the other hand, if you are happy to use the existing WSDL service, then I understand quite a few people use this <a href="http://bespokebots.com/betfair-bots.php" rel="nofollow">free python interface</a> to it or this <a href="https://code.google.com/p/bfpy/" rel="nofollow">open source version</a>. Lastly, the free service is free so long as you have a funded account and operate within the <a href="http://bdp.betfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=64" rel="nofollow">throttling limits</a> described, which should be fine at least to get you started if not much longer depending on what you want to do.
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1. POaccessing betfair API to get horse prices
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1. COthanks, I managed to get it set up eventually but as you say the documentation is not great. One issue I cannot figure out is how to send the keep alive within the 20 min timeframe?
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2. COYou only have to send the keepAlive if you're not making any other calls. You could put the call in a threading.Timer for every 19 mins?
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