AAA Gas Prices Scraper

This project is a Python script that extracts the AAA National Average gas price from https://gasprices.aaa.com/. The script uses the requests library to fetch the HTML content of the website and the BeautifulSoup library to parse and extract the required data.

Features

Fetches the AAA National Average gas price
Parses and extracts data using BeautifulSoup
Custom User-Agent header to bypass request restrictions

Requirements

Python 3.x
requests
beautifulsoup4
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Installation

Make sure you have Python 3 installed on your system. If not, download and 2. install the latest version from https://www.python.org/downloads/.
Install the required libraries: CODE {
- bash pip install requests pip install beautifulsoup4 }

Usage

Save the provided script as a .py file, e.g., gas_prices_scraper.py.
Open a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the directory where the script is saved, and run the following command:

The script will print the extracted gas price on the terminal or command prompt.

CODE
 { 
- bash
python gas_prices_scraper.py
}

Disclaimer

Please note that web scraping can be against the terms of service of some websites. Always check a website's policies before scraping its content. This script is for educational purposes only, and the author is not responsible for its misuse.

According to 'robot.txt' webscrapping is not disallowed for the main page 'https://gasprices.aaa.com/'

" User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php