All other websites work for me on Chrome and Bfexplorer works fine on other browser like Microsoft Edge. Settings have been reset and it is a brand new laptop running Windows 11. Any ideas how to fix?
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How do I get agentic support set up?
I've tried a few different AI models but can't actually get it off the ground. I am trying to follow the instructions here: https://github.com/StefanBelo/BetfairAiTrading/blob/main/docs/Automation/HowToStartWithAgenticBfexplorerApp.md Bfexplorer has been launched from within its own ...
Strategy Show & Tell: What's Working (or Failing!) on the Exchange?
It feels like we all have a unique edge or a fascinating corner of the market to exploit. The sheer complexity and speed of Betfair make it an endless playground for quantitative strategies, which is both exciting and overwhelming sometimes! I wanted to open up a discussion: What kind of betting ...
layteruk10
This is going to take time for to understand and work through Stefan, and in fairness as my content is not yet useful I don't deserve free use so I have subscribed to the basic model. Three markets will help me as I need to split feeds into a minimum of three distinct market types. Anyway, I will document my journey as you suggest and then we will see. My expertise is commercial contracting so I have a steep learning curve.
Betfair Bot
I have been coding and trading on Betfair since 2007; I am currently 60 years old. When I first built my website, I introduced a Community Program offering free professional subscriptions to our most valuable community members. Do you know how many users took advantage of this general offer? Zero. Why? Because that is the nature of bettors on Betfair.
If you want to participate, you must produce readable content detailing your journey and genuinely welcome it here. In return, you will receive free Betfair API access. Since you already have experience with AI models, I suggest writing about that process—specifically how you use the bfexplorer agentic app with AI.
Furthermore, if you have a computer equipped with some VRAM/GPU, you can run AI models locally. For example, I successfully tested running the Gemma 4 LLM even for prompts similar to those other users have asked.
Time to process after market change
You need to know how to use local LLMs and, crucially, write effective prompts.
layteruk10
Thank you for your response. It will help me in the direction I go. I am not an expert on this or a programmer (I'm a retired 68 year old having fun) but I have been trying to find help through AI including including a claude subscription as this was advised as best to use. There are betfair apps that I could make some direct links and potentially two that I have found that could potentially use the marketid information however even the ones that suggest that they can do this have some limitations. The initial AI advice was to use an excel dashboard which eventually was finished after many corrections however the tasks I need done are linear and because of this excel was slow. My major focus now is learn how to use bfexplorer (so looking at a lot of youtube videos) and I will look at the script also. I have a strong impression that bfexplorer is very configurable. Once I have that working I am happy to move to a pro subscription. Trying to build my own betfair app is much more about having something to do and to keep my brain active. It's nothing to do with money. If I have something I am happy with I will pay the the £499 for for individual access and to support your continued work. The reason I am here is to become more informed about these topics. I know I looked a long time ago at bfexplorer but did not have the time to understand everything. All the best.
Betfair Bot
I do not understand your use case; as for why you need to open Betfair markets—if it is for betting purposes, those actions can be fully automated in bfexplorer without any programming knowledge.
Yes, there are many ways to achieve this using simple code, and I have provided several such examples on my GitHub.
The simplest option is a bfexplorer Console script; open it in the bfexplorer Console and click the "Execute" button on the toolbar.
BfexplorerConsoleExample.fsx
Since bfexplorer is an agentic app, you could simply set up an MCP connection with your AI harness and prompt bfexplorer: "Open the following market IDs: 1.261142591, 1.261142708."
Well, I understand your motivation for getting free access to the Betfair API through my generous community program, but you should be at least somewhat informed about these topics.
Betfair Bot
Open Claude Desktop. Navigate to File > Settings, then open Connectors and click Add. Select "Add custom connector," name it "bfexplorer," and for the remote MCP server URL, enter: http://localhost:10043
To be honest, it seems like you are missing something: in the era of AI, you can simply ask any AI tool how to add a feature. Many AI-driven applications do so automatically; if they cannot find the necessary information in your environment, they will prompt you and configure everything themselves.
What does that mean for you?
I don't think you’ll be able to utilize bfexplorer’s agentic support effectively, so you should just stick with using the app the traditional way.
djdarbs
Have you got a guide on how to setup and use either Copilot or Claude?
Betfair Bot
When you activate "Use web page login" in Application/Settings, it means that when you log in to Betfair via the bfexplorer app, a dialog will appear displaying the official Betfair web page login. This allows you to complete the second step of your two-factor authentication (2FA). To be frank, I have not tested 2FA yet, but the standard web page login works. My only hope is that after a successful login, the 2FA process redirects back to the same webpage, as bfexplorer needs this location to read the session token and authorize any of your Betfair API operations.
Betfair Bot
Set up bfexplorer agentic support in your AI chat tool, and then simply ask bfexplorer your questions.
djdarbs
Can you advise how to set up this strategy? Say for example I want to monitor in-play horse racing and place a bet on a horse only when it moves to price X, assuming the starting price was Y or higher?
Betfair Bot
This phenomenon is called internet connection latency. While internal operations within bfexplorer are measured in nanoseconds and microseconds, most of the time, sending any request to the Betfair servers is dictated by this connection latency. Therefore, if your strategy relies on low-latency execution, you should run it from a data center located close to the Betfair infrastructure.