Betfred football odds, as structured data
Pull Betfred pre-match football odds into your own product, alone or lined up against other UK bookmakers in one JSON schema.
bookmaker_codes=UO007 Betfred is coded UO007. Add bookmaker_codes=UO007 to any odds endpoint to filter results down to Betfred alone.
Betfred football odds
Betfred is a major name in UK football betting, so it is natural to want its odds inside your own tools rather than checking the site by hand. Builders want this for odds comparison tables, price alerts, tipster services and research projects that need a record of what Betfred was offering and when. The problem is that Betfred has no public developer API for pre-match football odds, so there is no official feed to plug into. That gap is what pushes people towards either scraping the site or a third-party odds provider that already covers Betfred.
Show Betfred next to other UK bookmakers on the same page so users can see the best price for a match in one glance. Structured data makes it straightforward to keep those tables accurate and current.
Trigger a notification when Betfred's odds on a fixture move past a threshold you set. This works far better as a scheduled data feed than as a manual page check.
Reference Betfred's actual odds when publishing tips or grading picks, so your numbers match what a bettor could genuinely get. Consistent structured data keeps that record honest over time.
Build a history of Betfred's pre-match football odds to test staking strategies or study how prices move before kick-off. A clean dataset is far easier to work with than saved screenshots or scraped HTML.
The DIY trap
Betfred's website is built for browsing, not for extraction, so scraped odds break the moment the page layout changes. Content is often rendered by scripts that run after the initial load, which means a simple page fetch can miss the odds entirely or return stale numbers. Add in rate limiting, IP blocks and the ongoing maintenance of a scraper that has to be fixed every time Betfred tweaks its site, and it stops being a sensible foundation for anything you plan to run in production.
Layouts and XHR payloads change without notice. Proxies, CAPTCHAs, and rate limits add cost and downtime.
Automated extraction is typically prohibited. For a commercial product, a managed feed is the cleaner path. See legal risks of scraping.
The simple path
UK Odds API collects Betfred's pre-match football odds and delivers them as clean, structured JSON, so you skip the scraping problem entirely. Betfred is coded UO007 in our system, meaning you can pull it on its own or alongside other UK bookmakers within the same schema. That gives you one consistent data source whether you need a single bookmaker's odds or a full comparison view.
Some products only need Betfred's own numbers, such as a Betfred-branded odds widget or an internal tracker of their pricing on upcoming fixtures. Others need Betfred set against other UK bookmakers, for example a best-odds comparison page, a value-betting alert tool, or a research dataset spanning multiple bookmakers for the same matches. Because every bookmaker sits in the same schema, you can start with Betfred alone and widen the comparison later without redesigning how your product consumes the data.
Most customers run on Pro (£149/mo, 7-day trial): 34 UK bookmakers, advanced markets including player props, historical odds. Start with a trial, then call the endpoints below.
How to integrate
Once you have an API key, the flow is the same for every UK bookmaker: list fixtures, request odds, optionally filter to Betfred.
List events for a date and select an event_id.
Fetch odds and filter to Betfred via bookmaker_codes=UO007.
Copy-paste these requests.
GET /v1/football/events?schedule_date=YYYY-MM-DD&has_odds=true&upcoming=true&per_page=10
GET /v1/football/events/EVENT_ID/odds/best?odds_format=decimal&bookmaker_codes=UO007Replace EVENT_ID with an event_id returned by the events endpoint.
A compact example response (shape is normalised across bookmakers).
{
"event_id": "evt_123",
"odds_format": "decimal",
"bookmakers": [
{ "code": "UO007", "name": "Betfred" }
],
"markets": [
{
"key": "1x2",
"outcomes": [
{ "name": "Home", "odds": 2.05, "bookmaker_code": "UO007" },
{ "name": "Draw", "odds": 3.40, "bookmaker_code": "UO007" },
{ "name": "Away", "odds": 3.75, "bookmaker_code": "UO007" }
]
}
]
}Realtime data
Get Betfred's pre-match football odds as structured data today, on their own or set against other UK bookmakers.
Bookmakers covered
Betfred odds, alongside the other UK bookmakers we cover, in one schema
Pricing
Straightforward paid plans built around how much football odds data you need, with Betfred included in every one.
£79/month
Billed today · no trial
For prototypes and early builds
£149/month
7 days free · £0 due today
For production apps and dashboards
£359/month
Billed today · no trial
For arbitrage tools and revenue-generating systems
FAQ
Betfred does not publish a public developer API for pulling pre-match football odds into your own product. Teams usually either scrape the website (fragile and against typical Terms of Service) or use a bookmaker odds API such as UK Odds API.
You can try, but scrapers break when the site changes, hit anti-bot controls, and usually violate Terms of Service. For production apps, a managed odds API is simpler and lower risk than maintaining a Betfred HTML parser.
Call fixtures with /v1/football/events, then odds with bookmaker_codes=UO007. Remove the filter to compare Betfred against the wider UK market.
UK Odds API is a UK-first REST API for pre-match football odds across major UK bookmakers and exchanges - one OpenAPI contract, stable UO### codes, best-odds helpers, and advanced markets (including player props) on Pro.
Most production apps use Pro (£149/month, 7-day Pro trial): 34 UK bookmakers, core + advanced markets, historical odds. Arbitrage endpoints are on Business.
Yes. Start a 7-day Pro trial at ukoddsapi.com/sign-up, then try endpoints in the OpenAPI playground at api.ukoddsapi.com/docs.