{"id":66389,"title":"Parsagon: Real-time price indexes","tagline":"Real-time price and inflation estimates via API","body":"**tl;dr: Parsagon now offers real-time price indexes by scraping daily prices of retailers.** \n\nParsagon is an AI that can auto-generate web scrapers and data pipelines. With inflation affecting so many consumers and businesses, we had our AI generate dozens of scrapers to collect prices and track inflation for over 50,000 food products across 38 cities in North America. You can access daily inflation estimates per food category (e.g., bread, seafood) and per region (e.g., Northeast U.S., Western U.S.) via our API. For example, here’s the change in price for various foods in the U.S. over the past week:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=66389\u0026key=user_uploads/145104/6b268c1b-9eb6-4ca6-acd0-d7d19f356145)\n\nAnd earlier this month, when a jump in food inflation sent markets tumbling, our index reported that jump in inflation two weeks before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the inflation numbers.\n\n**Our ask:**\n\nIf you want access to the API, please contact us at [founders@parsagon.io](mailto:founders@parsagon.io) for a free trial!\n\nWant prices for a different sector or industry? Let us know! We generated our scrapers for food in about a week, so we can likely get data for whatever industry you’re interested in. ","slug":"HGn-parsagon-real-time-price-indexes","created_at":"2022-09-29T06:04:14.746Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T09:54:57.495Z","total_vote_count":17,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HGn-parsagon-real-time-price-indexes","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":22832,"name":"Parsagon","slug":"parsagon","url":"https://parsagon.io","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d7aefca6f08e98bcb987bd108cb1bbe99254dd91.png","batch":"Winter 2021","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Monitoring","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/22832"}}