Betfair API
Pre-match football odds from Betfair, delivered as structured data you can drop straight into your own product, no exchange interface, no manual copying.
bookmaker_codes=UO006 Betfair is bookmaker code UO006. Use it to pull Betfair odds on their own, or alongside other UK bookmakers in the same response.
Why you need this
Betfair does not publish a public odds API for developers, so anyone building an odds comparison table, price alert tool, or tipster product has to find another way to get Betfair's numbers into their own system. Manually checking the exchange or copying prices by hand does not scale past a handful of matches. What builders actually need is Betfair's pre-match football odds as clean, structured data that updates on a schedule and slots into their own database or app. That is the gap a proper Betfair odds feed is meant to fill.
Show visitors where Betfair sits against other UK bookmakers for the same match and market. Structured data lets you refresh and rank prices automatically instead of updating a table by hand.
Trigger notifications when Betfair's odds move on a fixture or market you are tracking. This only works reliably if you are polling structured data rather than re-reading a web page each time.
Attach real Betfair odds to your tips or model outputs so users can see the actual price alongside your pick. Structured odds keep this accurate as prices change through the day.
Pull historical-style pre-match odds sets to test staking strategies or model calibration against Betfair pricing. Consistent, structured data makes this repeatable across many fixtures.
The DIY trap
Betfair's exchange interface is built for account holders placing bets, not for machines reading data, so its pages are heavy with scripts, dynamic odds ladders, and layout that shifts often. Add in login walls, rate limiting, and the risk of breaching the exchange's terms of use, and a scraper that worked last week can silently stop working or get blocked without warning. Teams that go this route usually end up spending more time maintaining the scraper than building the product it was meant to support.
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 gives you Betfair pre-match football odds as one clean, structured feed, with Betfair set as bookmaker code UO006. Pull Betfair odds on their own for a single-book product, or filter it alongside other UK bookmakers in the same schema when you need a full comparison view. Either way, you get consistent fields and reliable updates without touching the exchange interface directly.
Use Betfair alone to power a focused product built around one bookmaker's pricing, such as a simple odds tracker or a Betfair-specific tipster feed. Or bring it into a wider comparison tool that sits Betfair next to other UK bookmakers so users can spot the best available price for any match and market. Both approaches run off the same underlying data, so you can start with one and expand to the other later without rebuilding your integration.
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 Betfair.
List events for a date and select an event_id.
Fetch odds and filter to Betfair via bookmaker_codes=UO006.
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=UO006Replace 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": "UO006", "name": "Betfair" }
],
"markets": [
{
"key": "1x2",
"outcomes": [
{ "name": "Home", "odds": 2.05, "bookmaker_code": "UO006" },
{ "name": "Draw", "odds": 3.40, "bookmaker_code": "UO006" },
{ "name": "Away", "odds": 3.75, "bookmaker_code": "UO006" }
]
}
]
}Realtime data
Consistent fields across bookmakers, predictable updates, and a schema that does not change underneath you.
Bookmakers covered
Covering Betfair alongside other major UK football bookmakers in one feed.
Pricing
Pick a plan based on how much football odds data you need, then filter it down to Betfair, other bookmakers, or a full comparison view.
£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
Betfair offers exchange trading APIs for account holders, but that is not the same as a multi-bookmaker UK odds feed. If you need Betfair odds alongside Sky Bet, Paddy Power, William Hill and other UK bookmakers in one JSON schema, UK Odds API is built for that.
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 Betfair HTML parser.
Call fixtures with /v1/football/events, then odds with bookmaker_codes=UO006. Remove the filter to compare Betfair 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.