wits

Retrieve electricity data from WITS Free to air via a friendly Ruby interface.

WITS (Wholesale and information trading system) currently does not provide a public API but data can be retrieved through web forms and file downloads.

This client library interfaces with WITS to make data retrieval and formatting a breeze.

Wits.benmore

=> {:node_code=>"BEN2201",
 :node_short_code=>"BEN",
 :node_name=>"Benmore",
 :price_type=>"Final",
 :date=>#<Date: 2015-04-01 ((2457114j,0s,0n),+0s,2299161j)>,
 :prices=>
  [{:time=>2015-04-01 00:00:00 +1300, :trading_period=>1, :price=>95.82},
   {:time=>2015-04-01 00:30:00 +1300, :trading_period=>2, :price=>90.24},
   ...
  ]
 }

See the 'Usage' section for more examples.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'wits'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install wits

wits officially supports MRI Ruby 2.2+ and the JRuby equivalent. wits may work for older versions of Ruby however we no longer test against these unsupported versions. The specific Ruby versions we build and test on can be found at TravisCI.

wits can retrieve Final/Interim/Forecast Prices, and 5 Minute Prices for a given node and date.

Half-hourly final/interim prices can be retrieved in the following ways:

Wits.prices('ben2201') # Defaults to the day before yesterday
Wits.final_prices('ben2201')
Wits.prices('BEN', '29/03/2015')
Wits.prices('ben', Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))
Wits.prices('BEN2201', Date.parse('29/03/2015'))

Wits.interim_prices('ben2201') # Defaults to the day before yesterday
Wits.interim_prices('BEN', '29/03/2015')
Wits.interim_prices('ben', Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))
Wits.interim_prices('BEN2201', Date.parse('29/03/2015'))

Wits.forecast_prices('ben2201') # Defaults to the day before yesterday
Wits.forecast_prices('BEN', '29/03/2015')
Wits.forecast_prices('ben', Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))
Wits.forecast_prices('BEN2201', Date.parse('29/03/2015'))

If no date-like argument is provided, data for the day before yesterday will be retrieved.

There are convenient methods for known nodes. Use Wits::Nodes.nodes to see a list of nodes this library is aware of.

Wits.ben_prices
Wits.benmore_prices('29/03/2015')
Wits.ben2201_prices(Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))

Wits.ben_interim_prices
Wits.benmore_interim_prices('29/03/2015')
Wits.ben2201_interim_prices(Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))

Wits.ben_forecast_prices
Wits.benmore_forecast_prices('29/03/2015')
Wits.ben2201_forecast_prices(Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))

For Final prices, there are shorter methods without the _prices suffix.

Wits.ben
Wits.benmore
Wits.ben2201

All of the above methods can be called on Wits::FinalInterimPrices.

Wits::FinalInterimPrices.benmore_prices

Five minute electricity prices can be retrieved in a similar fashion:

Wits.five_minute_prices('hay2201') # Defaults to NZ's current date
Wits.five_minute_prices('HAY', '29/03/2015')
Wits.five_minute_prices('hay', Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))
Wits.five_minute_prices('HAY2201', Date.parse('29/03/2015'))

If no date-like argument is provided, data for New Zealand's current date will be retrieved.

There are convenient methods for known nodes. Use Wits::Nodes.nodes to see a list of nodes this library is aware of.

Wits.hay_five_minute_prices
Wits.haywards_five_minute_prices('29/03/2015')
Wits.hay2201_five_minute_prices(Time.parse('29/03/2015 13:37'))

All of the above methods can be called on Wits::FiveMinutePrices.

Wits::FiveMinutePrices.hay_five_minute_prices

Average 5 Minute Prices can be retrieved by passing the :average argument (in conjunction with a date argument) to the above 5 Minute Prices methods:

Wits.five_minute_prices('HAY', '29/03/2015', :average)
Wits.haywards_five_minute_prices('29/03/2015', :average)
Wits.hay2201_five_minute_prices(Date.parse('29/03/2015'), :average)

There is also a method to retrieve average prices without passing through an :average argument.

Wits.average_five_minute_prices('hay2201')
Wits.average_five_minute_prices('HAY', '29/03/2015')

If no date-like argument is provided, data for today's date will be retrieved.

Again there are convenient methods for known nodes. The :average argument is not required.

Wits.hay_average_five_minute_prices
Wits.haywards_average_five_minute_prices('29/03/2015')
Wits.hay2201_average_five_minute_prices(Date.parse('29/03/2015'))

All of the above methods can be called on Wits::FiveMinutePrices.

Wits::FiveMinutePrices.hay_average_five_minute_prices
Wits::FiveMinutePrices.average_five_minute_prices('hay2201')

In addition to the usual Ruby errors and exceptions, wits can raise the following errors:

• Wits::Error::ClientError
• Wits::Error::ConnectionFailed
• Wits::Error::TimeoutError
• Wits::Error::ResourceNotFound
• Wits::Error::ParsingError

All of the above error classes inherit Wits::Error::ClientError, Wits::Error, and StandardError.

wits will respect the local (server) time zone and correctly return Time instances in the local time zone. Daylight savings adjustments are accounted for.

For instance, if the NZT time for the first trading period is 2015-03-29 00:00:00 +1300, wits will return 2015-03-28 07:00:00 -0400 for an 'America/New_York' local time zone.

Date instances are always in the context of New Zealand.

This information is related to the old WITS site. It may no longer apply to the new WITS site.

There is no reliable method (without web scraping) of distinguishing interim half-hourly prices from final prices. Until the WITS CSV file correctly reports the price type, the half-hourly prices are always reported as 'Final' Interim and final prices can now be retrieved via their respective Ruby methods

The CSV files for five minute prices and average five minute prices are missing some data rows on days when daylight savings ends. As a result, wits will return incomplete (and possibly invalid) data for dates when daylight savings ends (e.g. 5 April 2015).

WITS also provides Price Index and Demand information which could be retrieved and delivered through a client library. Pull Requests are welcome!

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Run bin/guard to automatically launch specs when files are modified.

Run bundle exec rake spec to manually launch specs.

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/gchan/wits/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

wits is Copyright (c) 2015 Gordon Chan and is released under the MIT License. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.