Send daily Brent crude oil futures prices to Telegram with 0 API cost

Who is this for?

Oil traders, energy analysts, commodity research desks, shipping operations teams, refinery planners, equity investors in oil stocks, macro researchers, and anyone whose day starts with "where is Brent trading?" If you track the international oil benchmark and want hands-free price updates delivered to Telegram multiple times a day without paying for a Bloomberg terminal or a commodity data API, this workflow is built for you.

What problem does this solve?

Most professional oil price data sources charge steep monthly fees. Bloomberg terminals run into thousands per month. Refinitiv, CQG, and similar platforms are priced for institutions. Free alternatives exist but require manually checking websites throughout the day, which breaks focus and wastes time. This workflow silently scrapes the public Brent Crude futures page on oilprice.com, extracts the 10-month forward curve, formats the data into a clean tabular Telegram message, and delivers it on a configurable schedule. You get institutional-grade visibility into the Brent forward curve without spending a rupee on data feeds.

Zero ongoing cost to run

This workflow has no API keys, no subscriptions, and no metered usage. It relies entirely on:

- Your own n8n instance (self-hosted = free, Cloud = your existing plan) - A free Telegram bot (created via BotFather in under 3 minutes) - Public HTML scraping of oilprice.com (no authentication, no rate limit you will realistically hit)

Compare this to competing data sources: premium oil data APIs routinely cost 50 to 500 dollars per month. This workflow costs exactly 0 dollars per month to run indefinitely. The only time investment is the 8-minute initial setup.