Betfair Datastore URLs

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LinusP
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Does anyone know how to access the urls of all the files in the datastore?

http://data.betfair.com/

My html knowledge is limited and it seems as though they have put something in place to stop the actual url of the file being shown on both the home page and pop up window.

The actual url of the files likes like a concatenation of the timeframe, the date it was created and something else...
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marksmeets302
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Linus, if you arive at the final webpage where you can download a file, it calls an asp file with a bit of gibberish as a parameter. This gibberish probably encodes your username, the kind of file you are requesting and for which data range. Asp works on the server side (I believe, it's been a long time) so the way of decoding the parameter is outside our reach.

Perhaps betfair will be kind enough to email you the data when it becomes available ?
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Euler
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Did you just want a quick way to download all the data? I have it all archived.
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LinusP
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hmm, ok. Thanks for the offer Peter, I am on a quest to have it all automated, download/unzip/load to db, so that I don't have to waste any time downloading in the future.
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rinconpaul
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Not sure that automating the file retrieval will help you much as that's not where the time goes? It's the time spent finding all the errors in Betfair's data, wrong date format for some entries and not others, missing prices, it just goes on....

I would spend an hour, for each days download, just cleaning up the mess.
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