Automated Betting Station: Build Your Betfair Bot

GitHub

Our Data Science team has created a dedicated Betfair page on GitHub.

They’re adding new repos every week.

You’ll find:

• Data and third party betting tools
• How to automate your betting with ratings
• A library of resources to help with your automation and data journeys
• API guides, so you can poll odds and transact live on the Exchange
• Predictive models, including the Brownlow Medal

If you’re data minded, or looking to automate your betting, we strongly encourage you to visit our GitHub regularly. This collection of resources will only get deeper.

BETFAIR DATA

We know that automated strategies are only as good as your data. There’s a huge variety of historic pricing data available for almost any race or sport – you can take a look at our explanation of the different data sources if you’re not quite sure where to start. We’ve also shared some tips on learning to create predictive models using this data, which link in with the models shared on our main Github page.

• Betfair data sources
• Historic Data FAQs & sample data
• Historic Data Specifications
• API for downloading historic data files(quicker than manually downloading)
• Sample code for using the historic data download API
• Historic BSP csv files

We’re always trying to increase this offering and should have extra data sources by early 2019, if not sooner.

Are you ready to compete with traders and data analysts on the world’s biggest betting exchange?

access our API

As you may already know, Betfair has its own API to allow you to integrate your program into the Exchange. Many of our most successful clients bet exclusively through this by placing automated bets using custom software.

There are lots of resources available to support you in accessing the API effectively:

• Creating & activating your app key
• Developer Program knowledge base
• Dev Docs
• Developer Forum where you can share your experiences and find out what’s worked for other clients
• Exchange Sports API visualiser for testing market-related queries
• Exchange Account API visualiser for testing account-related queries
• Our Github repo including an R library for using our API
• The UK’s Github repo including libraries for other languages

Unfortunately, the sign up process can feel overwhelming to some people. To help facilitate your journey, we’ve created this a guide to accessing our API.

third party apps

Whilst the following tools are not custom, they do allow you to automate your betting strategies. You just set up specific betting conditions and let the third party application do the work for you. The following three are probably the most popular with Betfair customers.

We’re putting together a collection of articles on how to use some of these third party tools to automate basic strategies, to give you a starting point that you can then work from.

• Bet Angel
  • Ratings automation
  • Market favourite automation
  • Tipping automation
• Gruss
• BF Bot Manager

Extra help

If you’re looking for bespoke advice or have extra questions, please contact us at bdp@betfair.com.au. We have a dedicated in-house resource that is here to automate your betting strategies.

We also know software developers who can create custom tools for you. Please use the above email for those requests as well.

External Resources

Lastly, we know that some strategies need more than Betfair data to thrive. So while we continue strengthening that offering, we also wanted to share some sport specific resources that you may find helpful.