BallyBet API for Odds

The Problem: No Public BallyBet API

How SharpAPI Solves It

What Bally Bet coverage actually gives you

Bally Bet is a United States regional book rather than one of the national operators. It runs in a narrower set of states and prices on thinner volume, which is precisely why it is interesting to a modelling workflow: smaller books tend to update on a slower clock than the majors, so a line that has already moved at FanDuel may still be sitting at its old number here.

Coverage is full rather than partial. SharpAPI carries Bally Bet moneyline, spread, totals and player prop markets with live in-play updates, and the book is available from the Hobby plan up, so it needs no upgrade beyond the cheapest paid tier. (The free tier is a fixed two-book set, DraftKings and FanDuel, so Bally Bet is not one of the books a free key returns.) Complete market depth on the cheapest paid plan is what makes it a practical book to test an arbitrage or stale-line strategy against.

Where it fits in a stack: Bally Bet sits with BetOnline, Bovada and Rebet among the American books available from Hobby, so a Hobby project can already weigh a regional domestic number against a national one without paying for a higher plan. Its prop coverage is also a genuine differentiator against the non-US feeds that stop at moneyline, spread and totals — SBOBET and 1xBet among them — and those sit behind the Sharp plan anyway, so Bally Bet is the cheaper option when your model needs prop depth.

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More Than Just BallyBet

SharpAPI delivers every major sportsbook in one API, not just BallyBet. Compare every betting market, spot +EV opportunities (value betting), and detect arbitrage across all of them.

Plus 8+ additional books. All normalized to the same schema.

How to Access BallyBet Odds via API

BallyBet doesn't offer a public API. The fastest way to get BallyBet odds programmatically is SharpAPI. Here's how to get started in under 5 minutes:

1. 1Create a free SharpAPI account, no credit card required.
2. 2Copy your API key from thedashboard.
3. 3Install the SDK: npm install @sharp-api/client
4. 4Query BallyBet odds using the code examples below.

import { SharpAPI } from '@sharp-api/client';

const sharp = new SharpAPI({
  apiKey: 'sk_live_your_key'
});

// Get NBA odds from all books
const odds = await sharp.odds.get({
  league: 'NBA',
  sportsbook: 'ballybet'
});

odds.data.forEach(event => {
  console.log(event.event_name);
  console.log(event.odds_american);
  console.log(`EV: ${event.ev_percent}%`);
});

// Real-time BallyBet odds via SSE
const url = 'https://api.sharpapi.io'
  + '/api/v1/stream'
  + '?channel=odds&league=NBA'
  + '&sportsbook=ballybet'
  + '&api_key=sk_live_your_key';

const es = new EventSource(url);

es.addEventListener('odds:update', (e) => {
  const data = JSON.parse(e.data);
  // Fires instantly when BallyBet
  // lines move
  console.log(data.event_name);
  console.log(data.odds_american);
});

Full TypeScript SDK with IntelliSense. npm install @sharp-api/client

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