Thank you for the detailed reply. I am interested in learning how to do this myself. It is a fun challenge to find out how this all works. So I will try to read up some more and see how to do that. Don't worry. I am not going to ask you to teach me how to code from scratch. But I might ask specific Smartbet related questions that I cannot find the answer to from web searches.
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If anyone else is thinking about doing this from zero coding experience like me, my current starting point is the idea that I need to:
1. Scan my telegram channel to get the data I need (also called "scraping" data from the internet)
2. Use a "POST request" (or "GET request") to send the data to the Smartbet API endpoint postpick.php
From looking at the internet I am going to start at these help pages:
https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-get-data-from-telegram-82af55268a4b
https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/web-scraping-101-with-python/
I can compile this into an executable file
https://datatofish.com/executable-pyinstaller/
And then schedule this application to run every 10 minutes to check for new bets to be posted
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9949067/send-http-get-request-to-me-every-x-minutes
Or I will next try to learn and use Node.js (a runtime environment for running Javascript outside a browser) if I cannot manage to do it through python (a programming language).
If I manage to do it. I will make a YouTube video to demonstrate to others how to do it, too.