US-Gas-Prices

Python scripts that scrape US gas prices.

👋 This repository's maintainer is available to hire for US gas prices data-extraction consulting projects. To get a cost estimate, send email to lallyelias87@gmail.com (for projects of any size or complexity).

Requirements

• Python 3.8.17+
• pip 24.2+
• selenium 4.14.0+
• webdriver-manager 4.0.2+
• pandas 2.0.3+

Usage

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/lykmapipo/US-Gas-Prices.git
cd US-Gas-Prices

• Install all dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

• To scrape state gas price daily averages, run:

python scrape_state_daily_averages.py

• To scrape metro gas price daily averages, run:

python scrape_metro_daily_averages.py

Data Exploration

The scraped data are saved in csv format, and may be found under data folder.

• Explore part of the data using pandas, use:

import pandas as pd

# file = "./data/metro-daily-averages/2023-12-27.csv"
file = "./data/state-daily-averages/2023-12-27.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(file)

df.info()

• To explore all the data using pandas, use:

import glob
import pandas as pd

# files = glob.glob("./data/metro-daily-averages/*.csv")
files = glob.glob("./data/state-daily-averages/*.csv")
dfs = [pd.read_csv(file) for file in files]
df = pd.concat(dfs, ignore_index=True)

df.info()

Contribute

It will be nice, if you open an issue first so that we can know what is going on, then, fork this repo and push in your ideas. Do not forget to add a bit of test(s) of what value you adding.

Questions/Contacts

lallyelias87@gmail.com, or open a GitHub issue

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

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