The personal read-only API allows you to retrieve market information, current bet details, historical bet details and account statement information programmatically. The transactional API allows you to place, modify and cancel bets. The terms of the personal API allow you to develop programs for your personal use only and specifically prohibit distribution and sale of programs or data retrieved from betfair.

Typical applications for the read-only version of the API are:

• A spreadsheet to monitor and analyse your current position on a specific markets
• A program to simulate the effect of non-runners in a particular market
• A program to retrieve and store your bet data on a daily basis

Typical applications for the transactional version of the API are:

• A program to take calculate arbitrage opportunities between Asian Handicap and Match Odds Markets
• A program to place bets when certain market conditions are met
• A program to place bets after a market has gone in-play if they were not matched beforehand

The costs for the two Personal Use options are as follows: