UK Fuel Prices Scraper

UK Fuel Prices Scraper: petrol and diesel pump prices for UK filling stations

Pick the fuel retailers you want and you get one row per filling station, with its brand, address, postcode, coordinates and the price in pence per litre of every grade it sells. Every row carries the time stamped on the retailer's own file, and a file older than your limit is skipped and reported for free rather than passed off as today's price. This is not every forecourt in the UK: the government's list of open price files was withdrawn on 1 May 2026, so it reads the retailers that still publish their own, which came to about 2,400 stations with current prices on 30 September 2026.

🔍 What UK Fuel Prices Scraper does

It reads the price file each chosen retailer publishes, and checks it before anything is charged: that it is a station list, that the list is not empty, that it carries a date, and that the date is recent enough for your limit. A file that fails one of those checks becomes a free row saying which.

Grade codes are mapped onto one set of field names, whatever each retailer calls them. Retailers also use placeholder numbers to mean "we do not sell this grade here", so any price below 50p or above 400p a litre comes through as null instead of as a price.

A frozen file is the dangerous case. It answers like any other and holds plausible numbers in the right fields, and only its date gives it away. That is why the date is on every row.

Who publishes what, read on 30 September 2026:

Nothing is built around this table. Every retailer you choose is asked on every run, so a file that comes back to life starts returning rows by itself. Trust feedUpdatedAt on your own run over this table.

📥 What you give it

{
  "retailers": ["asda", "mfg", "moto"],
  "maxItems": 200,
  "maxFeedAgeHours": 48,
  "postcodePrefixes": ["SW", "M1", "EH12"]
}

📤 What you get back

A real row from a real run:

{
  "ok": true,
  "charged": true,
  "recordType": "station",
  "retailer": "Motor Fuel Group",
  "retailerKey": "mfg",
  "brand": "Jet",
  "siteId": "gcpt1f1w6e3b",
  "address": "MFG Bath Road, 230 Bath Road, Slough",
  "postcode": "SL1 4DX",
  "latitude": 51.515983,
  "longitude": -0.624051,
  "petrolE10": 174.9,
  "petrolE5": 189.9,
  "dieselB7": 201.9,
  "dieselSDV": 215.9,
  "otherPrices": null,
  "currency": "GBP",
  "priceUnit": "pence per litre",
  "feedUpdatedAt": "2026-09-30T00:00:01.000Z",
  "feedAgeHours": 2.6,
  "feedStale": false,
  "onCmaList": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-30T02:37:45.703Z"
}

A grade the site does not sell is null, not zero.

🧾 Reading the output

The sample row carries recordType: "station" as well, so filter on charged rather than on recordType to keep only the stations you paid for.

▶️ How to run it

1. Open UK Fuel Prices Scraper and click Try for free. 2. In Retailers, list the keys you want, one per line, or type all. 3. Set Maximum rows. About 2,400 stations are current across every retailer, so 3,000 takes the lot. 4. To narrow it down, put postcode starts such as SW or EH12 in Postcode areas (optional). 5. Click Start, then export the dataset as CSV, JSON or Excel, filtered on charged.

💰 How much does it cost?

$0.92 per 1,000 stations, flat on every Apify plan.

Not charged: the sample row, every diagnostic row, stations from a file older than your limit, stations your postcode filter drops, stations with no price or no location, and a forecourt the same retailer lists twice. All 2,400 or so current stations come to about $2.20.

💡 What people use it for

• Keeping a price history. Retailers overwrite their files and keep no archive, so a daily scheduled run is the only way to have last month's prices later on.
• Costing a delivery round or a fleet's fuel: pull the postcode areas on the route and compare diesel.
• A comparison page or an in-car app that wants one flat table instead of fifteen files in fifteen shapes.
• Seeing what one chain charges across the country, sorted by the grade you buy.

🚧 What it does not do

• Not every UK forecourt. Only retailers that still publish an open file are in it. Independents and several large chains are not.
• No history. A run is a snapshot of what each retailer last published.
• Not a live read of the pump. A forecourt that changed its price an hour ago may not have updated its file yet.
• No stations from frozen files by default. Shell, Rontec, Applegreen, Ascona and Tesco have not refreshed since spring 2026 or earlier, so on the default limit they return a free row and nothing else.
• Morrisons is one site in Gibraltar. That is the whole file.
• Postcodes match on the start, with spaces ignored. M1 also catches M11 and M12, and M11 catches M1 1AA as well, so check the postcode column when that matters.
• Times are read as UTC, because the files carry no time zone. In British Summer Time a file can look an hour older than it is.
• A retailer that does not answer during a run gets a free row naming it, and the next run asks again.

🧭 Which UK data scraper do you need?

❓ Questions people ask

How current are the prices? Every row says, in feedAgeHours. On the default limit nothing older than 48 hours is charged, and the live retailers refresh daily, so most rows are less than a day old.

What happens if a retailer's file is down? You get one free row for that retailer saying what went wrong, and the run carries on with the others.

Can I get the price at one station? Put the start of its postcode in postcodePrefixes and pick the row by postcode. Only matching stations are charged.

Can I get last month's prices? Not from this, because the retailers keep no archive. Schedule a daily run and you build the history yourself.

Why is there a null where a price should be? Either the site does not sell that grade, or the retailer put a placeholder there instead of a price. Both come through as null.

Do I need an account or an API key? No.

🆘 If something breaks

Open the Issues tab on the actor page. Include the run ID and the retailer keys you asked for.