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Open sourceStarting as a developer

OctoBot developers

For developers and contributors to the open source OctoBot.

1 - Learn the basics of Python

Watching an hour of a beginner Python video course should be enough to get started.

2 - Setup your OctoBot developer environment

Once setup you’ll love the OctoBot Developer environment.

3 - Learn how to create Tentacles

OctoBot Tentacles are apps/extensions for OctoBot.

A tentacle can be what ever you want it to be. For example:

  • A technical Indicator
  • A custom python trading Strategy
  • Something to push notifications to Discord
  • An improvement to the web interface
  • Or something entirely different

Finally, tentacles can be packed into a tentacle bundle to be shared with other OctoBot users.

Check out out the OctoBot customization guide to learn more.

4 - Contribute to OctoBot

Please have a look at our contribution guidelines.