Many moons ago I made my living as a programmer (- then went through high level technical to project management).
I've found out that some stats I'm looking for are available using a REST API and I'm wondering if there's something I could learn reasonably easily to get the stats, more or less just for the fun of it. I've always wanted to return to doing a bit of programming, for fun, and have three unused Raspberry Pi's (and a mass of related sensors, cameras etc) under my desk to prove it :-)
Anyway, all I want is my half hourly usage stats from my electricity supplier, and I'd like it in CSV format to bung into Excel. Here's a link to the API and function I want developer.octopus.energy/docs/api/#example-usage , and the rest of the page talks about other usage.
The problem is, I don't know where to start. I've read about REST APIs and understood a fair bit of it, and it seems it's somewhat language-agnostic, so I'm hoping someone here can recommend a simple way to implement it, and ideally point me towards some free online training materials.
This is likely to be a long-term project which may never reach the top of the to-do list if it's too complicated, so no rush :-)
Thanks
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