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When & How to Use Vendor Services
There are two separate methods available to Vendors.
- Vendor Services API - Available to licensed software vendors who want to provide Betfair Exchange customers access to their certified software using a subscription based system.
- Vendor Web API - Available to licensed software vendors who want to develop web applications using the Betfair API for access by Betfair Exchange customers.
Vendor Services API
The Vendor Services API allows licensed and certified Software Vendors to manage the permissioning of Betfair accounts to their API-NG application/s.
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- access_token: the access token, used to call Betfair on the user's behalf
- token_type: meta data for the access token (see 'Making calls on the user's behalf')
- expires_in: how long the access token will be valid for (in seconds)
- refresh_token: a token that can be used to create a new access token (see 'Using the refresh token')
- application_subscription: contains the vendor client ID, a unique identifier for a user. Can also contain some subscription related information (See 'Legacy Subscriptions')
IMPORTANT
To protect sensitive information such as your app key and secret, it is important that the token operation only be called from server to server.
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{"access_token":"KeOi+kyg2RvDK4HM+W46CvSnP5w=","refresh_token":"50d76117-7f85-375v-a38f-ffb332713f93","application_subscription":{"vendor_client_id":"456238"},"token_type":"BEARER","expires_in":"14400"} |
You can user the 'expires_in' value to determine when the access token will stop being valid. Alternatively, if calls made with the access token start returning an INVALID_SESSION error, it is likely that the token has expired.
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