For Bookmakers
We list all 6,200 licensed betting shops in Great Britain from the Gambling Commission public register. We would rather show your real opening hours than say we do not know them.
How We Source Hours Today
Where you publish shop hours on your own public shop finder, we read them, name you as the publisher on the page with the date we read them, expire them after seven days, and stop and delete on request — how our crawler behaves, and how to stop it. We would rather have a feed: it is more accurate for you, it costs us fewer requests, and it lets us show exceptions we cannot otherwise see.
What We Will Not Do
- Work around a block. A 403 ends automated access and we do not route round it.
- Publish a brand average as though it were a shop fact.
- Sell your position in a list, or let payment affect ordering.
- Put an affiliate link on a Directions or phone button.
What a Feed Needs to Carry
| Shop identity | Your shop ID, full address and postcode, plus the Gambling Commission premises account where you have it |
|---|---|
| Regular hours | Per weekday, as intervals — so split hours and trading past midnight survive |
| Exceptions | Dated: bank holidays, Christmas, big race days, temporary closures |
| State | Trading, temporarily closed, permanently closed |
| Refresh | Daily is ideal. We expire feed hours after seven days and show “hours unavailable” rather than guess |
The Rights We Need in Writing
API access alone is not enough. An agreement has to permit us to store the data, display it publicly, cache it, derive an open-now status from it, and sublicense it to our CDN so pages can be served from the edge. Without all five we cannot build the product, and we would rather say so now than discover it later.
Where Your Estate Stands
| Brand | Shops | “near me” searches / month |
|---|---|---|
| Ladbrokes | 2,019 | 33,100 |
| Betfred | 1,418 | 22,200 |
| William Hill | 1,253 | 27,100 |
| Coral | 663 | 18,100 |
| Paddy Power | 348 | 14,800 |
| JenningsBet | 98 | — |
| BoyleSports | 85 | — |
| Betzone | 58 | — |
Branch counts from the Gambling Commission register. Search volumes are Google Ads monthly averages for Great Britain. Five operators account for 5,701 of 6,200 shops.