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This request allows the retrieval of the full Betfair market navigation menu from a compressed file.  This is a beta release, the production version will be available from the 25th August.

The file can be accessed via httpshttps://beta-api.betfair.com/exchange/betting/rest/v1/en/navigation/lhmmenu.json and  and is updated every 5 minutes.

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The following request headers are required:

The following request headers are optional:

  • X-Authentication - Session Token used to verify the customer is authenticated
  • Host- Host on which the request is being called
  • X-IP - IP from which the request has been made.

 

 

GET /exchange/betting/rest/v1/en/navigation/menu.json HTTP/1.1
Host: api.betfair.com
Connection: keep-alive
X-Application: <YourAppKey>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch

The following languages are supported by the navigation file:

English - en

Spanish - es

Italian  - it

German - de

Swedish - sv

Portuguese  -pt

Russian - ru

Greek - el

Bulgarian – bg

Danish - de

This is a diagram showing how the LHM Data File is structured.

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An EVENT node has zero, one or many GROUP nodes

 

{
    "children": [
        {
            EVENT_TYPE1
        },
        {
            EVENT_TYPE2
        },
        ...
    ],
    "id": 0, // always 0
    "name": "ROOT", // always ROOT
    "type": "GROUP" // always GROUP
}

 

 

{
    "children": [
        {
            GROUP or EVENT or RACE (RACE only if Greyhounds/Horse Racing)
        },
        ...
    ],
    "id": "1", // Betfair specific eventTypeId
    "name": "Soccer",
    "type": "EVENT_TYPE"
}

 

 

{
    "children": [
        {
            GROUP or EVENT
        },
        ...
    ],
    "id": "74568202414", // Not a Betfair specific id, different for every GROUP
    "name": "Womens Soccer",
    "type": "GROUP"
}

 

 

{
    "children": [
        {
            GROUP or MARKET
        },
        ...
    ],
    "id": "27244118", // Betfair specific eventId
    "name": "South Korea U20 (W) v Mexico U20 (W)",
    "type": "EVENT"
}

 

 

{
    "children": [
        {
            MARKET
        },
        ...
    ],
    "id": "27247020.1115", // Betfair specific raceId
    "name": "1300m 3yo",
    "startTime": "2014-08-12T11:15:00.000Z",
    "type": "RACE",
    "venue": "Deauville"
}

 

 

{  
    "exchangeId": "1", // Betfair specific exchangeId
    "id": "1.114881860", // Betfair specific marketId
    "marketStartTime": "2014-08-14T00:00:00.000Z", // Betfair specific marketStartTime
    "name": "Over/Under 6.5 Goals",
    "type": "MARKET"
}