BCHydro API

BCHydro Python API for extracting electricity usage statistics from your personal account.

Installation

pip install bchydro

Via Github:

# Fetch the code
git clone https://github.com/emcniece/bchydro.git
cd bchydro

# Set up environment

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Running the example script:

pip install bchydro

export BCH_USER=your.email@domain.com
export BCH_PASS=your-bch-password

python test.py

Using in a project:

import asyncio
from bchydro import BCHydroApi

async def main():
    bch = BCHydroApi("username", "password")

    # Asynchronous usage:
    print(await bch.get_usage())
    print(await bch.get_latest_point())
    print(await bch.get_latest_usage())
    print(await bch.get_latest_interval())
    print(await bch.get_latest_cost())

    # Mostly synchronous usage:
    await bch.refresh()
    print(bch.usage)
    print(bch.latest_point)
    print(bch.latest_usage)
    print(bch.latest_interval)
    print(bch.latest_cost)

asyncio.run(main())

⚠ Read-Only Account Sharing

This project accesses your BCHydro account as would a human in a browser. It is recommended that a read-only account is set up for use with this project for more secure operation. Using this secondary account also enables backup access in the event of account lockout.

Instructions for adding read-only accounts can be found here.
Read-only accounts can be configured here after logging in.

Version Publishing

This repo is automatically published to PyPi by means of a Github Workflow when a new release is created on Github.

Maintenance

Dependencies can be updated with pip-tools:

# Install pip-compile and pip-sync
pip install pip-tools

# Upgrade requirements
pip-compile --upgrade

Todo

Publish on release, not tag
Handle account locking (looks for HTML alert dialogs)
Unit tests
Automatic initial and re-authentication
Rate limiting, auth retries
Exception documentation

Disclaimer

This package has been developed without the express permission of BC Hydro. It accesses data by submitting forms that end-users would typically use in a browser. I'd love to work with BC Hydro to find a better way to access this data, perhaps through an official API... if you know anyone that works there, pass this along!

bkyle/bchydro