Get the petrol prices from ASDA

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This year, the UK government encouraged supermarkets to display their fuel prices. The scheme is voluntary, and so far only ASDA has started displaying prices on its website. Since fuel prices vary from place to place, you must visit each supermarket’s website to find the best prices near you. To make this process easier, I wrote the following Python script:

# import the necessary modules
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# specify the stores from which to retrieve the prices. 
# For each store there is tuple ("Name", "URL")
urls = [
        ("Sheerwater", "https://storelocator.asda.com/south-east/woking/forsyth-road-sheerwater"),
        ("Staines", "https://storelocator.asda.com/south-east/staines/chertsey-lane-egham-hythe"),
        ("Fareham", "https://storelocator.asda.com/south-east/fareham/speedfields-park-newgate-lane"),
       ]

# retrieve the prices for each place
for place, page_url in urls:
    page = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(page_url).text, "html.parser")

    postcode = page.find("span", {"class": "c-address-postal-code"})
    petrol_prices = page.find_all("div", {"class": "Service-fuelCategory"})
    print(f"{place} (Postcode: {postcode.text})")
    for petrol_price in petrol_prices:
        divs_petrol_price = petrol_price.find_all("div")
        print(f"\t {divs_petrol_price[0].text} {divs_petrol_price[1].text}")
    print()

Below is the output of the script on 24 Sept 2023:

Scrapping on Constantin Orasan's website

Get the petrol prices from ASDA