Major Change to Betfair (20th September 2016)
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2016 1:41 pm
On the 20th September (07:00 BST), Betfair will be making some major changes to their infrastructure.
The changes involve the removal of the Australian Exchange (from an API perspective) and the removal of the Australian wallet. All markets will now be served directly from the UK Exchange. If you have any funds in your Australian wallet, then these funds will be merged into your main wallet.
These changes will necessitate a change to TheBetEngine (although only those people that bet on AUS/NZ races will be affected). In order to continue to access those markets, you will need to update your copy of TBE.
HOWEVER, at present, Betfair are not supplying any mechanism for bot vendors to test new versions of their software on the new infrastructure prior to the proposed cutover on the 20th September. Although the necessary changes have been made to TheBetEngine in advance, we cannot actually test that they work until the new infrastructure is fully available.
This means that we will not be able to test the new version until the 20th September and we will release the new version of the software as soon as the tests are completed.
The changes involve the removal of the Australian Exchange (from an API perspective) and the removal of the Australian wallet. All markets will now be served directly from the UK Exchange. If you have any funds in your Australian wallet, then these funds will be merged into your main wallet.
These changes will necessitate a change to TheBetEngine (although only those people that bet on AUS/NZ races will be affected). In order to continue to access those markets, you will need to update your copy of TBE.
HOWEVER, at present, Betfair are not supplying any mechanism for bot vendors to test new versions of their software on the new infrastructure prior to the proposed cutover on the 20th September. Although the necessary changes have been made to TheBetEngine in advance, we cannot actually test that they work until the new infrastructure is fully available.
This means that we will not be able to test the new version until the 20th September and we will release the new version of the software as soon as the tests are completed.