{"categories":[{"label":"Information Analysis","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering-information-analysis/3"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"gridstatus provides a unified Python API to fetch raw electricity supply, demand, and pricing data from major US and Canadian Independent System Operators (ISOs) including CAISO, SPP, ISONE, MISO, ERCOT, NYISO, PJM, IESO, AESO, and EIA.","skillfed_tags":["energy-data","market-data","grid-monitoring"],"use_cases":["Fetch real-time or historical electricity demand and supply data from a specific ISO for market analysis","Build a monitoring dashboard that aggregates pricing data across multiple ISOs for comparison","Integrate grid status data into an energy trading or forecasting model","Analyze historical load patterns and pricing trends across North American electricity markets","Scrape and normalize electricity data for research or academic energy studies"],"what_it_does":"gridstatus is a Python library that normalizes access to electricity market data across multiple Independent System Operators in North America. It abstracts away the different data formats and APIs that each ISO publishes, presenting a consistent interface for fetching supply, demand, and pricing information. The library depends on pandas for data manipulation, requests for HTTP access, and several parsing libraries (beautifulsoup4, lxml, pdfplumber, openpyxl, xlrd) to handle the variety of data formats ISOs publish\u2014some as APIs, others as web-scraped pages or file downloads.\n\nThe package is maintained by Grid Status and actively developed (last release 2026-04-21, last commit 2026-08-13). It is designed for research, analysis, and integration into energy market monitoring tools. The documentation notes that this library provides minimally-processed raw data; for production use cases, the maintainers recommend their hosted API instead. Installation is straightforward and requires Python 3.10 or higher.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need programmatic access to raw electricity market data from US or Canadian ISOs and can handle minimally-processed data. The library is actively maintained, has low install friction, and covers a wide range of ISOs. However, for production systems requiring guaranteed uptime and data quality, the maintainers recommend their hosted GridStatus.io API instead. License is permissive (BSD 3-Clause) and no known vulnerabilities are recorded."},"id":"gridstatus","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/gridstatus","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/gridstatus.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/gridstatus/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-04-21","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"unclear","name":"gridstatus","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"API to access energy data"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":93663,"position":13373,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.36.0"}