# Betfair: Exchange Streaming API

**Provider:** Betfair: Exchange Streaming
**Category:** entertainment
**Base URL:** `http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api`
**Auth:** none — `# No auth required`
**Rate Limit:** See documentation
**Free Tier:** Yes — available
**Pricing:** Enterprise / contact sales (subscription)
**Docs:** https://developer.betfair.com/support/

## Description

API to receive streamed updates. This is an ssl socket connection of CRLF delimited json messages (see RequestMessage & ResponseMessage)

## Endpoints

| Method | Endpoint | Description |
|--------|----------|-------------|
| POST | `http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api/request` | This is a socket protocol delimited by CRLF (not http) |

## Authentication

No authentication required

```
# No auth required
```

## Sample Request

```bash
curl -X GET 'http://stream-api.betfair.com:443/api/request' \
  -H '# No auth required'
```

## Sample Response

```json
{}
```

## Pricing Details

Free — open public API, no authentication required.

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*Source: [API Map](https://apimap.dev/apis/betfair-exchange-streaming/) — CC BY 4.0*