Integrate in an afternoon.

Quickstart

1. Get a key. Start a free trial — your or_test_* key serves the full UK product (all 7 feed types, bet365 included) for 14 days. Live keys are or_live_*.

2. Make one call. Ask for matched standard opportunities in the UK:

curl -s --compressed "https://api.oddsrelay.io/v1/odds/standard?region=uk" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>"

3. Poll efficiently. The board rolls roughly every 15s. Always send Accept-Encoding: gzip (the payload is large) and If-None-Match with the last ETag — together they collapse most polls to a tiny 304 Not Modified.

# 1. First poll — capture the ETag
ETAG=$(curl -sD - -o /dev/null --compressed \
  "https://api.oddsrelay.io/v1/odds/standard?region=uk" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  | awk -F': ' 'tolower($1)=="etag"{print $2}' | tr -d '\r')

# 2. Subsequent polls — send it back. Until the board rolls you get a
#    bodyless 304 Not Modified (fast + free), otherwise a fresh 200 + new ETag.
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" --compressed \
  "https://api.oddsrelay.io/v1/odds/standard?region=uk" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>" \
  -H "If-None-Match: $ETAG"

Authentication

Every request needs a key, sent as a Bearer token or an x-api-key header. Keys are 256-bit, shown once at issue, and stored hashed. A key is never accepted in a query parameter — it would leak into logs.

# Preferred — Bearer
Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_KEY>

# Equivalent — x-api-key header
x-api-key: <YOUR_API_KEY>

# NEVER in a query string (keys leak into logs) — this is rejected:
# https://api.oddsrelay.io/v1/odds/standard?api_key=...   ✗

A key carries a scope across four axes — feed types, regions, form (processed/raw) and add-ons (e.g. bet365). Requests outside scope return a 403 (see Errors).

The region filter

One endpoint set, one filter: ?region=uk (the default) — or a comma-separated list like ?region=uk,ie. There is no endpoint-per-region. Your key's scope gates which regions it may request; call GET /v1/regions to discover them.

• uk is live today; other regions are reserved and not yet requestable.
• A known region your key isn't scoped for → 403 region_not_in_scope.
• A region not in the enum → 404 unknown_region.

Endpoints

Base URL https://api.oddsrelay.io/v1. All endpoints require auth.

The envelope & types

GET /v1/odds/{type} returns a JSON envelope. Odds are decimal strings (e.g. "1.6"); money is a string, usually £-prefixed and occasionally negative; rating, ROI and liquidity are numbers. Parse defensively and ignore unknown fields.

Per-type opportunity fields. The concrete shape is chosen by {type}:

Every opportunity also carries: _id, sport, market_type, fixture, league, commence_time, qualifying_loss, potential_profit, region, plus denormalised time fields (date_and_time, game_day, game_time, datetime_string, odds_read_at) and horse_race_distance / horse_race_runners on racing rows.

A trimmed sample response:

{
  "opportunities": [
    {
      "_id": "mu5y0PCqeQufUv3K0soTnCvxhiYk5nJx",
      "sport": "Football",
      "market_type": "BTTS",
      "fixture": "Spain U19 (W) v Iceland U19 (W)",
      "league": "UEFA Women's U19 Euro Championship",
      "outcome": "No",
      "bookmaker": "Paddy Power",
      "bookmaker_link": "https://www.paddypower.com/...",
      "exchange": "Betfair Exchange",
      "exchange_link": "https://www.betfair.com/exchange/...",
      "back_odds": "1.6",
      "lay_odds": "1.51",
      "lay_liquidity": 21.39,
      "rating": 105.96,
      "qualifying_loss": "£0.60",
      "potential_profit": "£11.92",
      "commence_time": "2026-07-01T15:00:00Z",
      "date_and_time": "01/07/26 16:00",
      "game_day": "01/07/26",
      "game_time": "16:00",
      "datetime_string": "20260630201025",
      "odds_read_at": "2026-06-30T20:10:21.746441+00:00",
      "horse_race_distance": null,
      "horse_race_runners": null,
      "region": "uk"
    }
  ],
  "opportunity_count": 21114,
  "processed_at": "2026-06-30T20:10:29.000Z",
  "stale_hidden": false,
  "served_total": 21114,
  "unreliable_links": [],
  "region": "uk"
}

Prefer ?format=bare to receive the opportunities array alone; the metadata moves to X-Processed-At / X-Opportunity-Count / X-Stale-Hidden headers.

Errors

Errors use one stable JSON envelope — branch on error.code (the message may change). Every response carries an X-OddsRelay-Request-Id (echoed in the body) — quote it in support.

{
  "error": {
    "code": "region_not_in_scope",
    "message": "Key not scoped for region 'sa'.",
    "type": "region",
    "request_id": "or_req_…"
  }
}

Versioning & deprecation

• Path-versioned — /v1. The effective dated version is echoed in X-OddsRelay-Api-Version.
• Additive-only within v1. New endpoints, new optional fields, new enum values and new error codes can land any time — always ignore unknown fields.
• Breaking changes never happen in place. A removal/rename/semantic change only ships in a future /v2 with a sunset window.
• Anything being retired is signalled with Deprecation + Sunset + Link headers, with ≥ 12 months notice — and a live client is never sunset without consent.

Rate limits

Two layers: a generous per-IP flood throttle, and a per-key fair-use cap (tier-scaled). Every response carries your budget:

X-RateLimit-Limit:            120
X-RateLimit-Remaining:        118
X-RateLimit-Limit-Hour:       2000
X-RateLimit-Remaining-Hour:   1998
# on 429:
Retry-After:                  <seconds>

Conditional polling (gzip + If-None-Match → 304) keeps you well inside any cap — a 304 is cheap and still returns fresh rate-limit headers.

OpenAPI spec

The full machine-readable contract is published as OpenAPI 3.1 — import it into Postman, Insomnia, Scalar, Redoc or any code generator.