Can a Betfair bot be built with no programming knowledge whatsoever?

I've looked around on this site and others and it seems you need some semblance of programming knowledge. The developer site on Betfair are going on about some gobilty gook that I don't understand.

Also I didn't want to spend any money on it as I can do what I would like to do with the BF Bot Manager multi strategy bot but that costs something like $30 per month.

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Ocho,

The simple answer is yes a simple bot can be built by using the samples.
The long answer is it depends on what you want to do.

Let me know what you want to do and I can give you a better guide.

Learning to program takes years of full-time effort for the average person, and then it would take at least a few months to put a non-trivial bot together.

When I started punting I already knew how to program, and if I had found something that did what I needed for $30/month I would have jumped on it and saved myself a whole lot of time.

I've been wondering the same thing myself lately. I've got limited program coding knowledge but i've built websites essentially from scratch and worked with macro's in excel etc a fair bit now. Of late I've wondered if I should/could create something that automates my bet placement and race/form recording for me so it could even run while I'm not home.

I understand its a pretty monumental task but it would be pretty rewarding and potentially time saving once it was in place.

I think the biggest issues is not really having any idea where to start. I'm pretty good at picking things up once I have some initial direction or examples to work with.

Since you know excel.

Start here for sample code...

https://api.developer.betfair.com/s...?pageId=3834079

and then read the getting started guide.

https://api.developer.betfair.com/s...ted+with+API-NG

If you know some simple VB then this should be easy enough for you to work out.

LOL, I'm stuck at the first instruction: Clone the repository at... What does that even mean?

And then it says: Open the Excel workbook. Obtain an app key and session token (from where?) and enter them into sheet Example cells B3 and B4 respectively.

Oh well, I thought it was worth asking.

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I've seen some samples on a web site or two but wouldn't have a clue what to do with them. Do you just download them and run them? As I said, I wouldn't have a clue.

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