Handling error 400 while collecting tips in TipsterAPI
- Paweł Stypuła
You might experiance situation when following all the steps explained in the :How to get tips in TipsterAPI article, you will receive Error: response status is 400, with description “please check team names and start date”.
When you are searching for some certein event for the first time, our system can not recognize this search in the proper way. But the request was already sent to the system and it is analizing the available tips internally.
Simple solution is to wait a little time (15 seconds) and try again.
Now, you can see the system found the proper fixture (event), but there is still 400 error, but with different description: “no tips available.” You can always double-check if you are looking for inplay or prematch tips.
If the event is live and we have a tips available you will get a list of tips in the response.
It is good to know that you can achive the same result by the request URL: