A simple-code probably-overengineered-environment python aplication to scrape electricity prices and deliver them into an influxdb to be later queried from grafana.

This project uses shell.nix to manage the environment, so make sure to install the nix package manager.

After that, run nix-shell and it will try execute docker-compose and automatically set INFLUX_TOKEN to a valid admin token from influxdb container.

• Nix: shell.nix is probably going to be an standard for me from now on.
• Grafana integration with Terraform: Didn't know you could manage dashboards with Terraform. Though I've seen a problem when applying as No data is shown but when you re-run the query it magically works.
• Loki: I dipped my feet on managing logs with Loki. I tried to work with Promtail but was to lazy to actually run it as this is a simple project and I won't be needing a log ingestor. For now, that is.
• Pre-commit: It's a useful tool to not commit trash to the repo, though I don't particularly enjoy setting it each time. That's where shell.nix comes in.
• Doing custom Python decorators: Nice way to not re-write stuff. I've used it at work multiple times at the time of writing this. I'd enjoyed more if it could be cleanly transformed into a context manager, but given that I need to cache something the given solution weren't of my liking.
• Actually finishing something: Even though there are more stuff to do (clean up Terraform files, add Loki data source, structure the project better, write useful comments, etc) I'll just let it be a mark in history as a bad, over-engineered script that just scrapes some webpage for numbers and adds them to a database.