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> So I built a scraper that hits the UK government's mandatory Fuel Finder API every 10 minutes and stores every price change. 90k records across 7,700 stations
by yzydserd 5mo ago
> So I built a scraper that hits the UK government's mandatory Fuel Finder API every 10 minutes and stores every price change. 90k records across 7,700 stations since January.
Only 1 change per station per week on average? Fewer than I expected. Not sure I'd call it a scraper, myself.
157p/L national average is about 8 USD/G.
- theazureguy 5mo agofair point on scraper, it's more of an ingest pipeline really. the 90k is total price records across 7,700 stations since january, stations update a few times a week on average. the 10 min polling catches every move when it happens. the value is in the per-station, history over time, not the raw volume.
- traceroute66 5mo ago> Only 1 change per station per week on average? Fewer than I expected. My uneducated guess is it correlates to the weekly delivery of fuel. ;-)
- rootusrootus 5mo ago> 157p/L national average is about 8 USD/G. Europeans seem to be far more comfortable with Pigovian taxes than Americans. Or does it even come up for discussion when people are referencing the retail price at the pump?
- pacificpendant 5mo agoIt definitely does come up. A common complaint in the UK is that there are two types of tax added to fuel prices; fuel duty and VAT. So you end up paying VAT on the fuel duty you’re paying. We have had fuel price protests too, sometimes involving blockades by hauliers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_protests_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_protests_in_the_United_Ki...