Octopus Energy Bill Downloader for automatically adding bills to
Paperless
reddit / selfhosted

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O726564646974 · 2023-10-18 15:21

I've created a project for automatically getting Octopus Energy bills
into Paperless and figured you folks might find that neat :) You can
find it on [GitHub](https://github.com/OllieJC/oebd) and there's a
Docker image too `ghcr.io/olliejc/oebd:latest`

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b-A-shi · 2023-10-18 15:41

Wohoo, thanks!

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AznSzmeCk · 2023-10-18 18:25

Whoa thanks for sharing. Currently rolling my own script for municipal
electricity and it'd be super helpful to see how others are tackling
this. I'm a noob at SW code.

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UnacceptableUse · 2023-10-19 06:59

Awesome, thank you

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jared0430 · 2023-10-19 10:30

Just used it to download all my historical bills, it even downloaded
my Bulb bills from before I was switched to Octopus. Thanks for the
great tool!

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rjames24000 · 2023-10-19 11:41

oh this is a neat idea.. could be super useful to do the same for all
my bills and paychecks

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CheebaSweets · 2023-10-19 12:20

this is awesome, thank you!!

also, I think this might force me to update my paperless container,
I'm currently on the old deprecated linuxserver image of paperless

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O726564646974 · 2023-10-19 12:35

Oh nice and you're welcome!

I figured that would work along with companies that use Octopus like
Co-op. Did it include Bulb in the filename? It uses the account/bill
details from their API to create the it, so expecting it to.

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O726564646974 · 2023-10-19 12:36

If only other providers/suppliers were this progressive with their/an
API, eh?!

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jared0430 · 2023-10-19 12:37

Yes, it did!

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O726564646974 · 2023-10-19 12:38

I did it the other way around.. updated my paperless to ngx and tidied
it all up along with some auto consumption scripts and then wondered
if I could automatically ingest things, so ended up making this tool!

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rjames24000 · 2023-10-19 13:26

would be nice to work out of the box.. but with selenium and a
headless chrome driver along with death by captcha i dont think they
can stop  us from scraping

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MrShared · 2023-10-19 17:07

Little offtopic: but is there any way to get (real time) data from
octopus into home assistant?

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O726564646974 · 2023-10-19 17:23

I haven't set mine up, but looks like others have accomplished some
integrations: [https://community.home-assistant.io/t/octopus-energy-
agile-tariff/160458](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/octopus-
energy-agile-tariff/160458)

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Chrisophogus · 2023-10-19 17:47

I’d never heard of paperless before. Installing that immediately and
adding this. Amazing work.

Thank you!

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sexyshingle · 2023-10-19 18:56

PSA: "Octopus Energy" sounds like a cool rock band name... but
apparently, it's a British power company.