UK Fuel Prices Scraper

Pick the fuel retailers you want and get one row per UK filling station: 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 The government's list of open price files was withdrawn on 1 May 2026, so it reads the retailers that still publish their own, which came to about 2,400 stations with current prices on 30 September 2026.

Input	Retailer keys, or all, plus optional postcode areas and a freshness limit
Output	One row per filling station: brand, address, postcode, coordinates, unleaded, super unleaded, diesel and premium diesel prices, and the age of the retailer's file
Ceiling	20,000 stations per run, far more than is published
Account needed	None, and no API key
Price	$0.92 per 1,000 stations on the Free plan, a little less on paid plans. The free plan's $5 a month covers about 5,400

🔍 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:

Retailer	Key	Stations in its file	State
Motor Fuel Group	mfg	1,225	current
Asda	asda	790	current
Esso Tesco Alliance	esso	193	current
SGN	sgn	112	current
Moto	moto	47	current
JET Retail UK	jet	11	current
Morrisons	morrisons	1	current, and it is one site in Gibraltar
Shell	shell	546	frozen since 13 May 2026
Rontec	rontec	265	frozen since 1 May 2026
Applegreen	applegreen	65	frozen since 26 February 2025
Ascona Group	ascona	60	frozen since 5 May 2026
Tesco	tesco	515 on 20 September	frozen since 29 April 2026 when last read
bp	bp	none	no file served
Karan Retail	karan	none	server error
Sainsbury's	sainsburys	none	the address no longer exists

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 data you get from each UK filling station

What you get	Field
The company whose file it is, and the brand over the door	retailer, retailerKey, brand
The retailer's site code, the address, postcode and position	siteId, address, postcode, latitude, longitude
Unleaded and super unleaded, in pence per litre	petrolE10, petrolE5
Diesel and premium diesel, in pence per litre	dieselB7, dieselSDV
Any other grade a retailer starts publishing	otherPrices
The currency and the unit	currency, priceUnit
How old the retailer's file is	feedUpdatedAt, feedAgeHours, feedStale
Whether the retailer was on the government's final list	onCmaList
When the row was written	scrapedAt

▶️ How to scrape UK fuel prices

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 to scrape UK fuel prices?

$0.92 per 1,000 stations on the Free plan. Paid plans pay a little less: $0.91 on Starter, $0.90 on Scale and $0.89 on Business. On the free plan, the $5 Apify gives you each month covers about 5,400 stations.

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 you give it

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

Field	Default	What it is
retailers	none, which gives a free sample row; the box starts at asda, mfg, moto	Keys from the table above, or the single word all. They are read in the order you list them; all reads the biggest first. A key that is not in the table is ignored.
maxItems	200	Stations to return across all your retailers, 1 to 20,000. Once it is reached the remaining retailers are not read at all, so list the one you care about first.
maxFeedAgeHours	48	How old a retailer's file may be, in hours, before its stations are skipped. Raise it to take the frozen files as well; every row still says how old it is.
postcodePrefixes	none, which means every station	Only stations whose postcode starts with one of these, such as SW, M1 or EH12. Stations the filter drops are never charged.
proxyUrls	none	Optional, for sending the requests through servers of your own, as http://user:pass@host:port. Leave it empty for a normal run.

📤 What you get back

A real row from a run on 30 September 2026:

{
  "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"
}

Field	How to read it
retailer, retailerKey	The company whose file it is. Not always the brand over the door: Motor Fuel Group runs sites under BP, Esso and Jet, among others.
brand	The brand on the forecourt, spelled the way the retailer writes it, so ESSO and Esso both turn up.
siteId	The retailer's own site code. A few sites share one, so to follow a station across runs, match retailerKey, siteId and postcode together.
petrolE10, petrolE5	Standard 95-octane unleaded and super unleaded, in pence per litre.
dieselB7, dieselSDV	Standard diesel and the premium diesel grade.
otherPrices	Any grade code a retailer starts publishing that is not one of those four. Almost always null.
feedUpdatedAt, feedAgeHours	The time on the retailer's own file, and how old it was when the row was written. Look here before you trust a price.
feedStale	true when the file is more than 48 hours old, whatever limit you set, so it only shows up if you raised maxFeedAgeHours.
onCmaList	Whether the retailer was on the government's final list of participating retailers. Applegreen was not.
latitude, longitude	null when the retailer published no real position. Four Motor Fuel Group sites do that; their address and postcode are right.

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

🧾 Reading the output

Row	How to spot it	Charged
A station	charged: true, recordType: "station"	yes
The sample row	_sample: true, charged: false. Only when none of your retailer keys matched	no
A diagnostic row	_diagnostic: true, charged: false, with the retailer it is about and an errorCode	no

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

errorCode	What happened
FEED_STALE	The file is older than your maxFeedAgeHours. The row gives its date and how many stations it holds.
FEED_HTTP	The retailer's server answered with an error, and status says which.
FEED_UNREACHABLE	The server could not be reached, or its address no longer exists.
FEED_NOT_JSON, FEED_SHAPE, FEED_EMPTY	Something answered, but it was not a usable list of stations.
FEED_NO_TIMESTAMP, FEED_BAD_TIMESTAMP	The file has no readable date, so there is no telling how old its prices are.
NO_RESULTS	The file was fine, but no station was in your postcode areas, or none had both a price and a location.
TIME_BUDGET	The run ran out of time before it reached that retailer, or before it finished its file. Nothing was charged for what it missed. The run ends as failed only when the time limit stopped it before any station came back.

💡 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.
• It is not an official tool of any fuel retailer or of the UK government. Dami's Studio is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any retailer or government body, or by any other company named on this page.

🧭 Which UK data scraper do you need?

If you want	Use
Pump prices at UK filling stations	This one
Every forecourt around a town on Google Maps, with ratings and GPS, the ones with no price file included	Google Maps Scraper
Classified ads on Gumtree UK, by keyword, category or town	Gumtree UK Scraper
Companies newly registered at Companies House	New UK Companies Scraper

❓ Questions people ask

Do I need an account or an API key?

No.

How current are the fuel 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.

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 fuel 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.

Can I call it from code or connect it to an AI assistant?

Yes. The API tab has ready-made code for Python, JavaScript and the command line. For Claude, ChatGPT or another MCP client, connect https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dami_studio/uk-fuel-prices-scraper. Either way the run happens on your Apify account at the same price.

Is it legal to use these fuel prices?

The retailers published these price files openly, as part of a voluntary government scheme that has since ended. Check a retailer's own terms before you republish its prices at scale. Apify's write-up on the legality of web scraping is a fair starting point, and we are not lawyers.

🆘 If something breaks

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