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Build an AI Sports Betting Bot: Maximize Your Winnings with Smart Automation
- SX Intern
- Apr 28
- 8 min read
Updated: May 7
Discover how a sports betting bot can enhance your strategy and boost your profits. Read on to learn about how you can leverage AI to code a sports betting bot: no development skills needed.
Check out the Build A Betting Bot Tutorials to create your own programmatic betting strategy on SX Bet now.
Using AI to Code Sports Betting Bots: Create a Cutting-Edge Automated Betting Strategy on SX Bet
Are you tired of watching seasoned bettors flaunt their profits while you struggle to break even in sports betting? The betting game is flooded with clickbait—bettors boasting "up 500 units this month" (spoiler: most aren’t)—while pushing daily basketball picks for $50/month. If their betting strategy was truly as sharp as they led you to believe, they wouldn’t be giving you their daily picks.
Real money in sports betting comes from cutting-edge technology: sports betting bots, advanced algorithms, and data-driven picks that give you an edge over the house—or, on sports betting exchanges like SX Bet, over other experienced bettors.
Here’s the game-changer: you don’t need coding skills or a big budget to build a betting bot. With AI tools and SX Bet’s free, open-access API, anyone can create a sports betting bot. Our new tutorial series on Building a Betting Bot for SX Bet walks you through it step-by-step—fetching odds, placing bets, managing multiple bets—all with AI crafting the sports betting software for you. No prior development experience required.
For software developers or serious bettors who want to dive deep, we’ve shared examples of each module you will create in this tutorial, and an Odds Maximizer Sports Betting Bot on Github.
Why Build a Sports Betting Bot?
Automation transforms sports betting into a precise, scalable operation powered by machine learning and data analysis. Here’s why an AI sports betting bot is essential for serious bettors:
Eliminate Human Error
Sports betting involves complex data—stake sizing, vigorish, hedging, payouts, and competitive odds. Manual calculations invite mistakes, especially under pressure. A sports betting bot ensures informed bets every time.
Automate Bet Placement
On SX Bet, market trends shift fast. Waiting for betting opportunities could mean missing value bets. A betting bot monitors markets 24/7, automatically betting when your target odds appear—whether filling orders or locking in hedges.
Manage Multiple Bets Effortlessly
Want to place wagers across tonight’s NBA basketball slate? Trying to manage orders and place bets across many markets manually is a nightmare. A sports betting bot scales this with ease, managing vast amounts of betting options in real time.
Unlock Analytics and Insights
SX Bet’s API provides historical data and active orders. Your bot can analyze historical data to track player performance, study player statistics, or react to sharp betting activity—turning data into smarter bets.
Bet Smarter with Programmatic Sports Betting on SX Bet
SX Bet stands out as the ideal platform for programmatic sports betting:
Free API Access: Unlike other exchanges that charge steep fees, SX Bet’s API is completely free. No API key is needed for most requests—just grab one from your account page if you want to use the WebSocket for real-time WebSocket updates.
Zero Commission or Fees: There is 0% commission on your winning bets (maker or taker) and no fees or premiums placed on winners.
Best Odds on Major Sports: SX Bet has some of the best odds in the entire world. You're already gaining an edge simply by signing up for the platform.
How to Build Your SX Bet Betting Bot with AI (No Coding Experience Required)
Ready to dive deep? Here’s how to leverage AI agents and the SX Bet API to craft your own automated sports betting strategy with no coding experience.
Step 1: Familiarize Yourself With The SX Bet API
Take the time to skim through the SX Bet API documentation. This will help you get a clear understanding of:
The information available to you via the API (past trades, current orders, active markets, websocket channels)
The actions you can make through an API call (post an order, cancel orders, fill orders)
The better your understanding of the SX Bet API, the easier it is to design your sports betting bot and create clear instructions for an AI agent to build it.
Step 2: Access the Right Tools:
Certain AI models perform better at coding tasks than others. For example, Claude Sonnet is often a preferred choice for coding projects and is available for free use with limits.
Step 3: Build a comprehensive prompt
Define Your Betting Strategy Clearly
Start by outlining exactly what your sports betting bot should do. Do you want to build a market-making bot that offers on both sides of the market, profiting off the vig? Do you want to build a "value bet" taker bot that automatically bets whenever you see odds above a set threshold on Lakers moneyline?
Create a Detailed List of Your Desired Features
What should happen when you first start the bot? What user inputs and actions do you want the bot to be capable of handling?
Are there any processes that the bot should be running in the background? For example, use the websocket to automatically monitor orderbook changes and cancel stale offers.
Focus on creating the necessities first. Add additional features like a user-friendly interface later.
Provide Pre-Built, Standalone Modules for API calls
Providing the AI agent with pre-built modules for API calls takes a massive requirement out of the equation: creating working functions for requests to the SX Bet API.
AI agents typically have the most difficulty completing coding tasks that involve a less common API. However, by providing basic sample modules for the required API calls, you can drastically reduce the number of errors in the code the AI agent creates. For the best results, explain the role of each sample module in your desired implementation.
In the Build a Betting Bot Tutorial series, you will see exactly how to create all the core modules needed to build ANY betting bot with the SX Bet API.
Add Import Contextual Details
Does the bot need to use any specific formulas or convert units? If so, reference the formulas directly.
Dump Supporting Documentation, Sample Code, and Any Other Context
Copying + pasting relevant sections of API documentation into your prompt is a highly effective strategy to reduce the number of errors in the code an AI agent writes.
Additionally, adding sample code snippets (say, if you had modules for all the core API operations and wanted to use them in a bot build) to your prompt is also extremely helpful.
Craft Well-Structured AI Prompts:
Put all of the above together in a well-structured format. Try to follow a structure similar to this:
Define role and project scope
Add important details about the project specifications and requirements
Dump Context
A sample prompt to build an Odds Maximizer Bot can be found here.
Ask The AI Agent For Support Setting Up The Project
If you've never written code before, you'll need to install a few things before getting started, including a code editor and the necessary packages to run your chosen programming language on your computer. Add a sentence to your prompt along the lines of:
"I have no development experience and will need detailed instructions on how to create and run this project from start to finish".
Step 4: Test, Debug, and Add Additional Features
Did you get an error when running your code? If your AI agent writes code that produces an error, don’t be afraid to copy + paste the relevant files from your codebase in your conversation along with the error message and ask the agent to debug it.
💡 Pro tip: tell the agent that another AI wrote the code; they'll be a harsher critic and more likely to find the root cause of the error.
It's much easier to add features in stages. If you have a long list of complex features you want integrated within your betting bot, get a simple, working MVP built first.
Build A Betting Bot Tutorial Series
You should walk away from this tutorial with:
1) A high-level overview of the SX Bet API and how you can leverage each endpoint in a sports betting bot.
2) A clear path forward to begin building a sports betting bot with no coding experience.
3) Simple sample modules for all of the core API operations with SX that can be reused in any betting bot.
Get started with the tutorial and find sample code for each step on GitHub.
Table of Contents
Module 1: Project Setup
What You’ll Learn: Set up your coding environment (Node.js, VSC) and explore key API endpoints like /metadata, /sports, and /orders/active.
Why It Matters: Your sports betting bot’s foundation starts here—no prior experience needed.
What You’ll Learn: Use /sports, /leagues, /fixtures/active, and /markets/active to map out bettable events.
Why It Matters: Essential for any bot targeting specific games or markets.
Module 3: Fetching Orders and Trades
What You’ll Learn: Pull active orders (offers) and historical data on trades (bets) for market insights. Stay informed on your own activity or other users' actions.
Why It Matters: Powers taker bots, performance tracking, sharp-bettor analysis.
What You’ll Learn: Post maker orders (/orders/new) and cancel them (/orders/cancel/v2).
Why It Matters: Automates market-making or limit-order strategies.
Module 5: Filling Orders (Taker Orders)
What You’ll Learn: Fill orders (/orders/fill) for instant bets.
Why It Matters: Enables arbitrage, hedging, +ev betting bots, and more.
What You'll learn: Subscribe to websocket channels (orderbook updates) for real-time updates.
Why It Matters: Ensure your bot has access to the fastest possible stream of information
Putting it all together: Odds Maximizer Betting Bot
What You’ll Learn: Put the modules together to create a betting bot. You define the strategy and provide the puzzle pieces, AI writes the code.
Find a sample Odds Maximizer bot and learn more about the underlying strategy here.
Inspiration
Common Automated Betting Strategies + AI-Powered Betting Bots
Need somewhere to start? Check out a few of these commonly automated betting strategies:
AI Sports Betting Bot: Dynamically Post and Manage Limit Orders on AI-Powered Picks
AI Sports Betting is a rapidly growing phenomenon, with the emergence of machine learning models and advanced algorithms that are capable of some serious sports data analysis. These agents can process complex data, like team form, player performance, and historical data, to deliver AI sports predictions with a high degree of accuracy.
A betting bot that posts and manages one-sided limit orders on your AI-powered predictions would allow you to get above-market odds instead of simply taking the best available offer.
Automated Hedge Bot: Programmatically Calculate and Place Hedge Bets To Secure Profits
Hedging is an important aspect of any bettor's overall strategy, where you place bets on the opposing outcome after the odds have shifted, allowing you to reduce potential losses or lock in profits.
Calculating the optimal bet size for your desired hedge can be complicated, especially if the odds are moving quickly. An automated hedge bot could programmatically derive the exact amount to hedge, given the current odds and place the bets for you.
Tail Bot: Copy-Trade Profitable Sports Bettors
SX Bet is a blockchain-based sports betting exchange, meaning every transaction (including bets) is publicly recorded. In other words, you can view and track the activity of any bettor. This makes it extremely easy to implement a copy-cat or 'tail' strategy wherein you find profitable traders and make the same bets they do.
One approach to a taker bot includes identifying profitable bettors on an existing 3rd party tool for SX Bet, like SX Sharks, then building a notification service that sends a telegram message anytime a tracked wallet makes a bet.
Additional integration: Create a sports betting bot to automatically tail bets from your monitored wallets if you can get the same odds within a margin of, say, 0.5%.
Positive EV Taker Bot - Automatically Place +EV Bets
Positive EV betting is frequently touted as one of the best strategies to adopt for long-term profits. Many users on SX Bet run programmatic betting strategies that snipe any '+EV' offers made.
If you have access to an odds feed with data on Pinnacle (often considered the gold standard bookmaker), for example, you could create a bot that fills any order that has +EV relative to Pinnacle. Similarly, if you have your own model to determine the probability of NBA outcomes, for example, you could create a betting bot that automatically places a bet anytime an offer for +EV arises relative to your model.
Disclaimer: This article and the accompanying tutorials are for educational and informational purposes. They do not constitute financial, investing, or gambling advice, nor do they guarantee the profitability of any strategy, bot, or code sample discussed.
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