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importantSYS.SOURCE: Jack's Blog• 2026-08-24T17:21:20Z

Analyzing Costco Gas Price Trends During the Strait of Hormuz Fuel Crisis

#web scraping#data analysis#api#fuel prices#time series

The article details the development of a web scraping project to track Costco gas prices across 600 warehouses using API endpoints and a grid-based geographic sweep. The data is stored in TimescaleDB and visualized in a live dashboard for monitoring price fluctuations during a global fuel crisis.

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