Scripted betting

[betso]

Is there anyone in this forum that have managed to script the process of placing a bet at a bookie, e.g. pinnacle? After having a brief look at the possiblity I got stuck with some intricate cookie handling and would appreciate some pointers.

It would be good to know what experiences people have regarding this type of betting which does not involve user interaction. What tools are used (my first try have been with cURL)? How do bookmakers react to this? I am assuming if the User-agent field in the HTTP POST/GET request is set properly, one should be ok.

[Ganchrow]

I use Perl for this. The process is intricate and can obviously be substantially different between sportsbooks.

I can only imagine the hellish nightmare it would be doing this with cURL or wget.

This is not a topic I feel comfortable saying much more about on a public forum.

[xyz359]

If you know Python, I'd have to say that's the language to use for a task like this. There are several good toolkits out there used to help in the navigation of websites.

www.python.com/pypi/ is a great list of 3rd-party libraries. =)

[JBC77]

Huh?

[Red_Sux]

i donno about post/get. get is way too unsecure, i doubt any book will do it. maybe if you can write a macro? window vb batch files are the easiest...you can call them using system calls in c++. but that is a pretty dumb way to go about it because the load time can screw up your script. i don't arb, so never actually looked into these type of tools.