Liam -your guy was very helpful (and patient!!), turns out, it's just a simple call to listMarketCatalogue, limiting it to soccer (1) and the MARKET_TYPE to WINNER. that will roll in every soccer market across the globe by bringing in the league market -from that, i can cache the team names.
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Smarkets / Betfair linking
Nice one, yeah he specialises in linking markets and is very knowledgable!jimibt wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:38 amLiam -your guy was very helpful (and patient!!), turns out, it's just a simple call to listMarketCatalogue, limiting it to soccer (1) and the MARKET_TYPE to WINNER. that will roll in every soccer market across the globe by bringing in the league market -from that, i can cache the team names.
perfect...
yes, was one of those doh moments of just stopping and thinking a bitLinusP wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:44 amNice one, yeah he specialises in linking markets and is very knowledgable!jimibt wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 11:38 amLiam -your guy was very helpful (and patient!!), turns out, it's just a simple call to listMarketCatalogue, limiting it to soccer (1) and the MARKET_TYPE to WINNER. that will roll in every soccer market across the globe by bringing in the league market -from that, i can cache the team names.
perfect...
I have found that usually the betfair team names are abbreviations of the pinny team names, e.g. Leicester vs Leicester City or Man City vs Manchester City.
If you also consider the kick off times and possibly the match odds then you will quickly cover all the big teams without too much manual work.
If you also consider the kick off times and possibly the match odds then you will quickly cover all the big teams without too much manual work.
cheers - once i see the two entities side by side, i'll probably have a better idea of the matching tactics (programaticaly) vs the manual slog...pythonic wrote: ↑Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:07 pmI have found that usually the betfair team names are abbreviations of the pinny team names, e.g. Leicester vs Leicester City or Man City vs Manchester City.
If you also consider the kick off times and possibly the match odds then you will quickly cover all the big teams without too much manual work.