{"id":33863,"date":"2025-05-13T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/desperate-looking-for-help-accessing-historical-betfair-data\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:27:21","slug":"desperate-looking-for-help-accessing-historical-betfair-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/desperate-looking-for-help-accessing-historical-betfair-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate: Looking For Help Accessing Historical Betfair Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Hey all,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a senior economics student at an European university working on a thesis that links <strong>ideological variance during U.S. presidential primaries<\/strong> to <strong>option-implied volatility (VIX)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To calculate my key metric (Ideological Variance), I need <strong>weekly win probabilities for each major primary candidate<\/strong> (e.g., Obama, Clinton, Trump, Cruz, etc.) across the 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020 election cycles.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of research, it&#8217;s clear that <strong>Betfair has the most comprehensive dataset<\/strong>, but access is gated behind a paywall and requires an API key or paid subscription\u2014something I can\u2019t afford as a student.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has <strong>access to Betfair API credentials<\/strong> they\u2019re willing to share temporarily for academic use, or<\/li>\n<li>Can help me <strong>extract or compile this historical election market data<\/strong>, I would be incredibly grateful. I&#8217;m happy to cite you in my thesis, share final results, or collaborate in any way that respects data policies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the final missing piece of my project, and time is running out.<br \/> Please DM or comment if you can help in any way \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/SpongeBobBlab\"> \/u\/SpongeBobBlab <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1klkvwn\/desperate_looking_for_help_accessing_historical\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1klkvwn\/desperate_looking_for_help_accessing_historical\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-33863 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='33863' data-nonce='65e0e39b87' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-33863 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-33863 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey all, I&#8217;m a senior economics student at an European university working on a thesis that links&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}