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at 6 PM, allegedly
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there's a theory ( i put it no higher) that it will be working at 18.00
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sorry, buzzer, after you ....
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Was just considering a post on this.
Is it just me or it now sometimes gives wierd errors, drops the connection, and (about to keep a closer eye on it) seems to sometimes be showing old prices? |
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Thanks. Probably best described as a 'tentative hypothesis'.
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Ok the forum post didn't say 6pm, didn't know about that.
I'll .. hope :) |
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Just checking,
Yes, I think the caching is f*cked. Calls to getMarketPrices, say, alternatively return most recent prices, or quite old ones. |
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yeah i can confirm, API prices are all over the place, i've placed bets via the site and they aren't even appearing in the market via the API
not going near it until its sorted |
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I've had that before on the web interface where it would flip back and forth from current to old or have a consistant delay of a number of minutes from live. Oddly enough often mostly on italian football (do they have servers that cache by market and italy is on the old crap server?! :)) Interesting to see it caused by a maintenance thing.
It's slighly worrying to know I've a bet on odds X and the market isn't showing that money there. I won't panic until 6:01 pm though :) |
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I cancelled some bets in a market at 1:50pm and they were still flashing up every so often at 5pm.
Close your positions and sit tight. Oxygen will be provided. |
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I penciled in today as an "off day". Resting on my bot.
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The footy c/s markets are hilarious, I've never seen the API this mental before.
Do the experts know what they're doing? It doesn't inspire confidence does it, a bit like getting your car back after an expensive service to find grease all over the seats and the oil filter cross threaded and pissing out oil. Perhaps I'm being too harsh, but the API was fine before the maintenance. |
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Service page now saying API offline till 9pm!
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when the website came up at about 12-ish i was watching (via my API app) a horserace favorite bouncing regularly once-per-sec between 2.00 and 2.5 ... thought all my christmases had come at once ... they hadn't
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Without API atm Chrome is working and Firefox is not. I dare not resort to IE.
Is anybody getting a problem too with Firefox? Please, pretty please. |
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Firefox is fine here, but it wasn't, until i, yes you guessed, cleared my cache ... seriously, it's the most likely cause of any browser problems when there's been a change to the website.
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Yea I'm thinking I'll get out now .. call this an off day probably.
I don't know if the money or odds I'm looking at even exist, I've web interface showing one thing and API another, you can't make decisions on that. |
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Thanks gus. I will go back and do the basics.
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Firefox is working here Alex. I had wierd problem initially coming onto forum and the odd thing like the market data now loading but it works, even if I don't trust the data I'm seeing.
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The french game (le havre) has been kicked off for about 7-8 minutes, yet API is showing the PRE kick off market prices - and they're updating. Just a heads up as to what you might be risking if you're using it at the moment, let's see what 9pm brings.
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The API isn't processing any bets, at least not here anyway. I can only get bets on via the website.
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Bets are going through here, but the cache is out of date and returning old data so it "looks" like the bets arnt placed.
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API still showing pre kick off prices, 20+ minutes out of date.
If I hadn't seen that service.info link, I wouldn't have known, they should've stuck the fact API was down in the service announcement on the forum, and I don't think they did? |
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Ok they did in the follow-up, I'll let them off :)
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Yeah I noticede that modk
Bets get matched but don't show up, making it very hard to get out. |
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What will be happening is the program you use to acces the API will not be receiving the normal response message as the cache is old, so your bet screen hangs. But on the live server it should have been placed
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whether its matched or not is another matter since the price you ask (and see) is old
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Looking at the markets, the cache is updating but rather than every 200ms it is updating every 20 mins or so.
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Well I've got £10 stuck somewhere in the ether. No idea where but 'Current Exposure' says -10.05 so I should take that as correct ?
Just glad I never put more down or I'd be worried now. |
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Le havre still showing pre kick off odds, 36 mins in and it's not 0-0.
Could get very nasty for bots? Betfair should really have sent emails out about this, not everyone reads the forums. I certainly didn't get one, did anyone? |
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im sure we can all go a day without a bet :)
good job its on a quiet day (for us footy punters) |
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Yea I know modk, but if you didn't hang about on forums or regularly check service page, and use API products, right about now you'd be kind of screwed. They should really have emailed everyone about downtime to at least give a hint that things might be funny today.
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It's right now
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They did send out emails, I had one late last week.
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Did you trev? I searched my inbox for emails from betfair before posting to check and there was absolutely nothing about this.
Was it from betfair or some wierd address? Did anyone else get an email? |
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Just 30 sec impossible to trade thanks [>o]
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I'm off their promo list, surely they didn't just send it to the "promotions and offers" list (!!).
Are you on it trev, on your my profile page? |
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most definitely knackered... I have some unfortunate matches!!
Based on old info. |
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Some quite wierd oscillations on the correct score market graphs for the santander game, wonder if that's related.
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