InstitucionesCR Scraper

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Python Scraper to retrieve important data published by institutions. Supported institutions:

• BCCR, Central Bank of Costa Rica (dollar exchange rate)
• RECOPE (Fuel prices at stations and terminals)

The daily updated values are useful in automated processes; unfortunately, many times institutions do not prioritize enabling APIs for easy value retrieval by programs. For this reason, I have created this small project to fetch these data from the interfaces previously designed for humans.

Install

pip install instcr

Usage

Get fuel price information from RECOPE

from instcr import Recope

recope = Recope()

recope.print_data()

print(f"\nPrecio del diesel: {recope.table_estaciones['diesel_50']['precio_litro_total']}")

## ## Much later:

recope.update()

## Diesel price at stations
recope.table_estaciones['diesel_50']['precio_litro_total']

## Diesel price at terminals
recope.table_terminales['diesel_50']['precio_litro_total']

# recope.table_estaciones.keys() Shows all available fuels at stations

Exchange rate from the Central Bank of Costa Rica

from instcr import Bccr

bccr = Bccr()

## Show both buy and sell tables
bccr.print_data()

## Print today's information (date= datetime to specify a different date)
print(f"\n Today sell dollar price: {bccr.dollar('sell')}")
print(f"\n Today buy dollar price: {bccr.dollar('buy')}")