remy000/Rwanda-price-tracker

Rwanda price tracker Tracking retail prices in Kigali daily, to build an independent measure of inflation and compare it against Rwanda's official CPI. Rwanda's official inflation was running at 13.6% year-on-year in June 2026. This project asks a simple question: does that match what's actually happening to prices in Kigali's online shops? How it works A scraper runs every morning at 06:00 Kigali time, collects prices from Kigali online retailers, and appends them to data/price_history.csv. Nothing is manual — the dataset grows on its own. Data File What it is data/price_history.csv One row per product, per shop, per day Columns: date, shop, product_id, title, category, price_rwf, in_stock Sources Amahaho — Kigali online grocery NISR — official Consumer Price Index Collection ethics Only public product listings are collected — no personal data. robots.txt was checked and permits access to product pages. Requests are rate-limited to one per second, once per day. Published output is an aggregate price index, not a copy of any shop's catalogue. Status Collection started July 2026. Analysis and dashboard to follow once enough history has accumulated