Build Ingestion Script for ONS API Data

JoshuaMarden / bad_penny

A fledgling project to track and conceptualise the ever-shrinking orbit of the pound around the drain.

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Build Ingestion Script for ONS API Data #3

Open JoshuaMarden opened 2 months ago

JoshuaMarden commented 2 months ago

Build a Rust script that gets ONS API data we decided we needed for our MVP!

Data For Minimum Viable Product

'Official' UK inflation rates
Gold price (yFin API)
BTC price (yFin API)
GDP(Direct file download link here)
House price data (Land registry SPARQL query)
Wagesor here
National debt (as a % of GDP)
Petrol
Diesel
Gas (£ )
Electricity (£)
FTSE 100 (yFin API)
FTSE 250 (yFin API)

JoshuaMarden commented 1 month ago

ONS are simply not helping with this. Their API does not work and they have been slow to respond. Complaint has been escalated, but I seem to be fallen into the thick treacle of disinterested middle management. Not sure if it's broken and they just hope I go away.