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Scraping pages to get prices can be considered as OpenData
There's a big difference between “available to the public” and “belonging to the public”. By accessing a privately-owned website, you are accepting its terms and conditions. These conditions typically ...
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Time series data on construction cost
Check out these databases on Quandl:
Australian Bureau of Statistics:
https://www.quandl.com/data/AUSBS?keyword=construction
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development with data on ...
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San Francisco Housing Data
Zillow is an online real estate database company and offers research data which is aggregated, and you may find meets some of your needs.
http://www.zillow.com/research/data
All data accessed and ...
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Where can I find a cost of living index by zip code?
Living Wage Calculator by MIT provides cost of living data down to locality, which you could mesh into zip codes, but since zip codes are not unique to a locality, you'd have to give or take ...
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World gas/petrol prices at the pump
The data you're looking for is available here -:
https://www.datazar.com/project/pe1c88ca8-57a8-48b8-89a6-89083da7fc3c
It has historical data from 1918, it is free and open for use.
P.S- I work for ...
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Where can I find a cost of living index by zip code?
This might be helpful for other people if not for OP.
The problem here is that US Census data is based on census tracts, not zip codes. So for the US here is HUD "crosswalk" data from www.Huduser....
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Accounts payables, accounts receivables, invoices, and bills
How about a government jurisdiction's ledger? This would be more granular than for each contract and instead be for each check written.
Some examples:
State of Iowa: Ledger data at https://data.iowa....
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Acquiring Used Car Sales Prices
I know this site has a lot of car price data, you might be able to reach out to the owner to see how much data is available.
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San Francisco Housing Data
Some kind soul scraped the newspaper listings and put the results on github here.
However, several of the things you ask are much more involved, require analysis and subjective judgment to furninsh, ...
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Scraping pages to get prices can be considered as OpenData
I think it depends of the nature of the site, not only the terms and conditions. In the case of privately owned health medicine information, it could be an exception because of the nature itself of ...
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Cryptocurrency hourly historical prices
Your question is about hourly data, but I've never seen that available for free. It's generally the basis of paid service plans.
Coinecko has documentation on how to download their data with daily ...
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Historical electricity prices for countries
Similar to my other answer describing spot auctions, the Nordic electricity trading market has a data portal and exports available, specifically for day-ahead hourly prices.
ELSPOT DAY-AHEAD PRICES
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Historical electricity prices for countries
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is a marketplace for European energy (electricity), both futures and spot prices (although most trading is done either with brokers or as OTC). From your question it ...
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Looking for data on British car specs/list prices/MSRP's for website design project
Have a try of the gov.uk site. This particular link has some of the information which might get you part of the way.
Since you are not looking to run a business, doing a "screen scrape" of the data ...
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How do I access ten years of craigslist archives?
You can see what days the Wayback Machine has archived a given URL by changing the date portion of the URL to an asterisk:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.craigslist.com/fur/index1000.html
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Where can I find a cost of living index by zip code?
It isn't free, but the following is an option:
https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/zip-code-database/
The data comes from the Census Bureau American Community Survey. The ACS is free to download, ...
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Amazon price history dataset
EZSiteTracker’s Price Tracking Tool allows you to detect the price change of your favorite product/s online and get instant notifications via email. Visit: http://www.ezsitetracker.com/PriceTracking
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Amazon price history dataset
keepa.com is offering an api (https://keepa.com/#!pricedataapi), they even offering an SDK for Java: https://github.com/keepacom/api_backend . But it seems like you have to pay for it..
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