login to api6 fails since 10/10/14

Question

Hi,

error message is:

"$VAR1 = ' ' ';
File does not exist:  at /home/*/aeb/lib/BetfairAPI6Examples.pm line 81

login failed to retrieve valid XML at /home/ian/aeb/lib/BetfairAPI6Examples.pm line 82."

Been working fine before then

Answer 1

Betfair API6 was retired on 10th November 2014 - the new Betfair API is called API-NG and uses a completely different mechanism (REST rather than SOAP) and completely new API calls to retrieve market information.  See:

https://api.developer.betfair.com/services/webapps/docs/display/1smk3cen4v3lu3yomq5qye0ni/Getting+Started+with+API-NG

Unfortunately this means that none of the AEB code examples will work anymore, although there are other libraries that have been produced for Perl that you can use instead.  We recommend:

http://search.cpan.org/~myrddin/WWW-BetfairNG-0.08/lib/WWW/BetfairNG.pm