garyherd / web-scraping-iso-prices

web scrape of four ISOs to get the current RT wholesale prices

ISO Web Scraper

A simple scraper for getting Real Time LMP prices from

• ERCOT
• PJM
• ISONE
• NYISO

It uses Beautiful Soup and Flask libraries to extract data and render a simple page. I built it as a kind of prototype for the developers at my company working on a larger project.

Using/Installing the application

To install it to a local machine:

• Install Python 3.5 (I haven't tested with 2.7)
• git clone https://github.com/garyherd/web-scraping-iso-prices.git
• Install and activate a virtual environment. I did this on a Windows machine:

  • Navigate into project folder

  • From cmd prompt type:

    >python -m venv venv
    >venv\Scripts\activate
    >pip install -r requirements.txt
    

• To run it on a local webserver:
  • From the cmd prompt type: python iso_scraping.py
  • Open up a web browser and go to http://localhost:5000