Author Topic: Trigger For Tipster Selections?  (Read 1229 times)

Tags:
  • All members
  • Posts: 107
Trigger For Tipster Selections?
« on: 06 Apr 2016, 11:04 »
Morning all

I subscribe to a couple of horse racing tipsters who post there selections on their website. 

There is never an exact time for the selections to go up.  If I had a scraper that continually scraped the page and put the selections into an excel sheet (not even sure if this is possible), would there be a trigger capable of of monitoring the excel sheet and when a selection is found it places the bet?

Hope this makes sense and any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • Moderator
  • Posts: 3597
*
Re: Trigger For Tipster Selections?
« Reply #1 on: 06 Apr 2016, 17:11 »
Hi
You can use conditions based on Excel data, example:
selections name is equal to cell_Sheet1_A1

your tipsters selection name must have exactly the same spelling as betfair's selection name.

Not sure if you can have two DDE links to the Excel sheet though, it might be easier if you can generate a text file with the selections names and use:
selections name is in file (with the re-read option ticked)
Please read the following disclaimer with regards to the information you may request and obtain on our forum. This specifically concerns trigger files and various instructions as to how to implement a strategy.

  • All members
  • Posts: 107
Re: Trigger For Tipster Selections?
« Reply #2 on: 09 Apr 2016, 09:07 »
Great thanks Mark. I will give this a look.

  • All members
  • Posts: 87
  • "Good luck in your Gaming"
Re: Trigger For Tipster Selections?
« Reply #3 on: 09 Apr 2016, 22:38 »
Hi neilbom... have you tried making the tipsters website page into an RSS feed? i know you can place RSS into excel

In firefox is you left click just outside the address bar, youll get an option to customize. One of the boxes you can drag accross is "subscribe" which put an RSS feed into your bookmarks. Or under bookmarks theres "subscribe to this page"

... just a thought, might be useful

  • All members
  • Posts: 107
Re: Trigger For Tipster Selections?
« Reply #4 on: 10 Apr 2016, 08:47 »
Thanks Raelpth I will look into this.

 

Please note, BetFair is seems to be currently OFFLINE