Send Henry Hub natural gas forward curve updates to Telegram with zero API cost

Who is this for?

Natural gas traders, energy analysts, LNG desk professionals, utility planners, industrial gas buyers, power generation schedulers, pipeline operations teams, commodity research desks, and macro researchers tracking the NYMEX Henry Hub benchmark. If you start your trading day asking "where is Henry Hub spot and what does the forward curve look like?", this workflow was built for you. Anyone who wants a hands-free, multi-timeframe view of the U.S. natural gas market delivered to Telegram without paying for a data subscription will find immediate value here.

What problem does this solve?

Henry Hub is the pricing reference for virtually every natural gas contract traded in North America and a key driver of LNG export pricing globally. Keeping track of both the live spot price and the 12-month forward curve throughout the trading day normally requires a professional terminal or a paid commodity data API — neither of which is cheap. Bloomberg costs thousands per month. Refinitiv, CME DataMine, and similar platforms are priced for institutional desks. This workflow eliminates that cost entirely. It silently scrapes the public Henry Hub futures page on oilprice.com, extracts the live spot price plus the next 12 monthly forward contracts along with multi-timeframe price change data (5-day, 30-day, 90-day, 1-year, and YTD), formats everything into a clean tabular Telegram message, and delivers it on a configurable weekday schedule. You get institutional-grade forward curve visibility without spending a single rupee on a data feed.

Zero ongoing cost to run

This workflow has no API keys, no subscriptions, no metered usage, and zero ongoing maintenance requirements. 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 limits you will realistically hit in normal use)

Compare this to competing data sources: premium natural gas data APIs and terminal subscriptions routinely run from 50 to several thousand dollars per month. This workflow costs exactly 0 dollars per month to run indefinitely. The only investment is the 8-minute one-time setup.