What is API and non API mode? What is API?
API is an abbreviation of Application Program Interface. This is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks. A programmer puts the blocks together. Non-API applications ‘screen-scrape’ the web site to retrieve data and perform transactions. This way of interfacing with the exchange effectively mimics what a user would do if they were interacting with the web site directly. This method is not sanctioned by Betfair, if there should there be a small change to the web site, the screen scraping application will most likely be adversely affected. Betfair constantly reviews its policies regarding the screen-scraping applications and reserves the right to enforce these in the future. Using screen scraping, or in Bet Angel the ‘non-API mode’, is the less preferred method for interfacing and placing bets. Because the Betfair API is not dependent on the Betfair web site user inter
