If you are building a bookmaker platform, you should analyze data and provide accurate odds for your users. You can make people bet more on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds by giving better odds. To create a successful bookmaker platform, you should analyze recent odds from several bookmakers for a wide range of sports and events. But there are ways to automate this task with various services, like Odds API. Let’s learn about this bookmaker’s odds service.
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The Odds API
The Odds API offers up-to-date odds from multiple bookies across different sports in a straightforward, basic API.
Bookies odds for the NFL, NBA, NHL, EPL, Bundesliga, and all the major golf tournaments are covered here, among many more sports. A growing number of prominent sports also have live scores and results available. Various odds from bookies in the US, UK, EU, and Australia are covered.
What is the Odds API?
With Odds API, you can automate the odds prediction for your bookmaker service. For current and future sporting events, the Odds API provides odds from many bookmakers at a close to real-time timeframe. The odds data for online games is updated more often, always only a few seconds or minutes old. The odds for outrights (futures) are less dynamic and are changed once an hour before kickoff and more frequently during live games.
How does the Odds API function?
Odds API users can access odds from a variety of international bookies, including United States Gambling Houses. Many online bookmakers, such as DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Bovada, MyBookie.ag, Intertops, and others, are available for sports betting.
- Bookmakers in the UK: There are a plethora of online bookmakers, including Unibet, William Hill, Ladbrokes, Betfair, Bet Victor, Paddy Power, and more
- Legal Gambling in the European Union: The likes of 1xBet, Pinnacle, Betfair, Unibet, and others
- Australian Gambling Operation: Sites like Sportsbet, TAB, Neds, Ladbrokes, Betfair, Unibet, and more
Odds information is available via the Odds API for the following wagering markets – odds on the outcome of certain competitions, including head-to-head (Moneyline) odds, odds on point spreads (handicaps), odds on totals (over/under), and odds on outright (futures).
What benefits can Odds API deliver you?
Odds API allows for easy access to real-time betting odds data, which can be useful for a number of different applications. Some potential benefits of using an Odds API for a betting system include the ability to quickly and easily access up-to-date information on a wide range of betting markets, as well as the ability to automate the process of placing bets based on the latest odds data. This can help increase the efficiency and accuracy of a betting system, potentially leading to better results. Additionally, using an Odds API can help reduce the amount of manual data entry and analysis required, freeing up time and resources for other tasks.
How to use Odds API?
To use an API, you need to make a request to the API’s endpoint (or URL) using a programming language, such as Python or JavaScript. This request will typically include parameters that specify what data you want to retrieve from the API. The API will then respond with the requested data, which you can use in your own programs or applications.
Here is an example of how to use an API in Python:
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# Import the requests library import requests # Define the API endpoint endpoint = "https://api.example.com/data" # Set the parameters for the API request params = { "key": "your-api-key", "filter": "popular", } # Make the API request response = requests.get(endpoint, params=params) # Print the response print(response.text) |
In this example, the requests library is used to make a GET request to the API endpoint at https://api.example.com/data. The params dictionary specifies the query parameters for the request, in this case an API key and a filter value. The API responds with the requested data, which is printed to the screen.
Note that different APIs may have different requirements for authentication and parameters, so you will need to consult the API’s documentation to understand how to use it properly. Here is the sample code that you can use to integrate with the Odds API.
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import requests url = "https://api.apilayer.com/odds/sports/americanfootball_nfl/odds?regions=us&oddsFormat=decimal&markets=h2h&dateFormat=iso" payload = {} headers= { "apikey": "pgSU7ZuWkurGFaht6eAwF4Zg9VGWSZoy" } response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data = payload) status_code = response.status_code result = response.text |
How to integrate Odds API using Delphi?
Delphi includes several components that can be used to work with REST APIs, including the TRESTClient, TRESTRequest, and TRESTResponse components. To use these components to integrate with an API, you can start with REST Debugger that comes with the Delphi IDE. Delphi IDE is free and provides all the professional capabilities under Community Edition. First, download Delphi Community Edition IDE here. Then open the REST Debugger and put the endpoint URL. After a successful connection, you can copy the pre-configured components and put them on the form.
With the LiveBindings Designer, you can put the data source to any component. Here in this case, we’re using the grid component to show the received data.
Moreover, if you want dynamic requests, where you can search for specific games, provide the date and time with output format. You can follow this code here, where we are providing to a user the details of the match, so that we can request odds for that specific game and region.
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procedure TFormOddsAPIDemo.BtnGetOddsClick(Sender: TObject); begin TTask.Run( procedure begin var Sport := EditSport.Text; var DateFormat := EditTime.Text; var Markets := EditMarkets.Text; var OddsFormat := EditFormat.Text; var Region := EditRegion.Text; RESTClient2.ResetToDefaults; RESTClient2.Accept := 'application/json, text/plain; q=0.9, text/html;q=0.8,'; RESTClient2.AcceptCharset := 'utf-8, *;q=0.8'; RESTClient2.BaseURL := 'https://api.apilayer.com/odds/sports/' + Sport + '/odds' + '?regions=' + Region + '&oddsFormat=' + OddsFormat + '&markets=' + Markets + '&dateFormat=' + DateFormat + '&apikey=pgSU7ZuWkurGFaht6eAwF4Zg9VGWSZoy'; RESTClient2.ContentType := 'application/json'; // send request RESTRequest2.Execute; end); Memo1.Lines.Clear; Memo1.Lines.Add(RESTResponse2.Content); end; |
Here is the final result, and you can find the whole project source code in this repository.
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