comed_hourlypricing_data.py

import argparse
import locale
import logging
import time
import threading
import json
import requests
import datetime

#from aiy.board import Board
#from aiy.voice.audio import AudioFormat, play_wav, record_file, Recorder
#from aiy.board import Board, Led
#from aiy.cloudspeech import CloudSpeechClient





def main():
    COMED_HP_API_BASE_URL = 'https://hourlypricing.comed.com/api?type='
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='ComEd Hourly Pricing API Data Access')
    parser.add_argument('--pricetype', '-t', default='hour')
    parser.add_argument('--datapoints', '-n', default='1')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    logging.info('The --pricetype argument provided was: %s', args.pricetype)

    if args.pricetype == 'hour':
        comed_hp_api_url = COMED_HP_API_BASE_URL + 'currenthouraverage'
        logging.info('Getting the current hour average price from the ComEd Hourly Pricing API...')
        numdatapoints = 1
    elif args.pricetype == '5minute':
        comed_hp_api_url = COMED_HP_API_BASE_URL + '5minutefeed'
        logging.info('Getting the 5-minute price data from the ComEd Hourly Pricing API...')
        numdatapoints = int(args.datapoints)

    response = requests.get(comed_hp_api_url)
    pricedatalist = json.loads(response.text)

    logging.debug("Price Data:\n%s", pricedatalist)

    pricedata = pricedatalist[0]

    mtimeupdated = int(pricedata.get("millisUTC"))
    currentprice = float(pricedata.get("price"))
    timeupdated = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(mtimeupdated/1000.0)
    logging.info("The price data was last updated at %s", timeupdated)
    print(currentprice)

#   for x in pricedata.values():
#       print(x)



if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()