# European Fuel Prices: France & Italy (Official Data) (`frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices`) Actor

Station-level fuel prices from official government open data in France and Italy (30,000+ stations), one schema: diesel, petrol 95/98, E10, E85, LPG, CNG, HVO... Filter by city, postal code, region or GPS radius, sort by cheapest, get a market price summary.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [French Data lab](https://apify.com/frenchdatalab) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Travel
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 stations

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## European Fuel Prices: France & Italy (Official Data)

**Station-level fuel prices from the official government open data of France and Italy — 30,000+ stations in one clean schema.** Spain is coming soon. Diesel, petrol 95 / E10 / 98, premium fuels, E85, LPG, CNG, LNG, HVO, AdBlue, hydrogen.

Find the **cheapest stations around a point**, in a city, postal code, department or province, and get a **market price summary** (min / median / average / max per fuel and country) with every run.

### What can you do with it?

- ⛽ **Cut fleet fuel costs.** Schedule a daily run around your depots or routes and send the cheapest stations to your drivers.
- 📱 **Power a price comparison app or website** with fresh official prices for two countries.
- 📊 **Market and pricing analysis.** Compare prices by brand, city, motorway vs road, country, and track them day after day.
- 🗺️ **Station databases.** Addresses, GPS coordinates, brands, brands (Italy), 24/7 automatons, services and out-of-stock fuels (France).

### Why this Actor?

| | This Actor | Typical fuel price scrapers |
|---|---|---|
| France + Italy in one schema | ✅ | ❌ one country (often the US) |
| Official government open data | ✅ | ⚠️ often scraped from apps |
| Cheapest-first sorting & GPS radius | ✅ | Rare |
| Stale prices removed (stations that stopped updating) | ✅ `maxPriceAgeDays` | ❌ |
| Market summary per fuel & country | ✅ | ❌ |
| Italian brand fuels grouped (premium diesel / petrol) | ✅ | ❌ |

### Input

| Field | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| `countries` | `FR`, `IT` | `["FR", "IT"]` |
| `cities` | City / municipality names | `["Lyon", "MILANO"]` |
| `postalCodes` | French postal codes (Italian CAP when in the address) | `["69003"]` |
| `regions` | FR department number, IT province code | `["69", "MI"]` |
| `latitude` / `longitude` / `radiusKm` | Stations around a point | `"45.764"`, `"4.8357"`, `10` |
| `fuelTypes` | Keep stations selling one of these fuels | `["diesel", "lpg"]` |
| `cheapestFirst` | Sort by the cheapest price of a fuel | `"diesel"` |
| `maxPriceAgeDays` | Ignore prices older than N days (default 7) | `7` |
| `maxResults` | Maximum stations | `500` |

#### Recipes

```json
{ "countries": ["FR"], "latitude": "45.764", "longitude": "4.8357", "radiusKm": 5, "cheapestFirst": "diesel", "maxResults": 20 }
```

```json
{ "countries": ["IT"], "regions": ["MI"], "cheapestFirst": "petrol95", "maxResults": 20 }
```

```json
{ "countries": ["FR", "IT"], "maxResults": 40000 }
```

### Output

One item per station (real example, Italy):

```json
{
    "id": "IT:19310",
    "country": "IT",
    "brand": "Api-Ip",
    "address": "VIA SANTA RITA DA CASCIA 60 20143",
    "postalCode": "20143",
    "city": "MILANO",
    "region": "MI",
    "latitude": 45.43861,
    "longitude": 9.15284,
    "diesel": 1.949,
    "petrol95": 1.839,
    "pricesUpdatedAt": { "diesel": "...", "petrol95": "..." },
    "sourceAttribution": "Osservaprezzi carburanti — MIMIT, IODL 2.0"
}
```

Price fields (€/litre, `null` when not sold): `diesel`, `dieselPremium`, `petrol95`, `petrol95E10`, `petrol98`, `petrolPremium`, `e85`, `lpg`, `cng`, `lng`, `hvo`, `adblue`, `hydrogen`. Other fields: `stationId`, `name`, `postalCode`, `roadType` (motorway / road), `open24h`, `services` & `outOfStock` (FR), `selfServicePrices` (IT), `stalePricesSkipped` (FR).

The **`MARKET_SUMMARY`** record (Storage → Key-value store) gives, for the stations you selected, the number of stations and min / median / average / max price per fuel and country.

### Sources & licences

- **France** — Prix des carburants, DGCCRF / data.economie.gouv.fr, *Licence Ouverte 2.0*.
- **Italy** — Osservaprezzi carburanti, Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy (MIMIT), *IODL 2.0*.

Each item carries its `sourceAttribution` and price update times.

### Notes

- **Freshness:** France updates continuously, Italy once a day (prices in force at 8 a.m. the previous day).
- **Brands:** the French official feed does not include brands (`brand` is `null` for France).
- **Italy:** self-service prices are preferred; `selfServicePrices` lists the fuels priced in self-service.

### Pricing

Pay per station returned. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stops exactly there.

***

#### 🇫🇷 En bref

Les **prix officiels des carburants station par station** en **France et en Italie** (plus de 30 000 stations ; l'Espagne arrive bientôt) dans un format unique : gazole, SP95, E10, SP98, E85, GPL, GNV, HVO… Stations les moins chères autour d'un point, par ville, code postal, département ou province, prix trop anciens écartés, et **résumé du marché** à chaque exécution.

# Actor input Schema

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Official government sources: France (DGCCRF) and Italy (MIMIT). Spain coming soon.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City / municipality names (e.g. "Lyon", "MILANO"). Accents and case are ignored.

## `postalCodes` (type: `array`):

French postal codes (e.g. "69003"); Italian CAP when present in the address.

## `regions` (type: `array`):

France: department number ("69"). Italy: province code ("MI", "RM").

## `latitude` (type: `string`):

Optional: latitude of a point (e.g. 45.764). Use with longitude and radius.

## `longitude` (type: `string`):

Optional: longitude of a point (e.g. 4.8357).

## `radiusKm` (type: `integer`):

Search radius around the point.

## `fuelTypes` (type: `array`):

Keep stations selling at least one of these fuels. Empty = all.

## `cheapestFirst` (type: `string`):

Sort stations from the cheapest for this fuel (stations without it are dropped). Without it, results are sorted by distance when a point is given.

## `maxPriceAgeDays` (type: `integer`):

Some stations stop updating their prices. Prices older than this are not returned (0 = keep all).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of stations returned.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countries": [
    "FR"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Lyon"
  ],
  "radiusKm": 10,
  "cheapestFirst": "",
  "maxPriceAgeDays": 7,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `stations` (type: `string`):

No description

## `marketSummary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "countries": [
        "FR"
    ],
    "cities": [
        "Lyon"
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "countries": ["FR"],
    "cities": ["Lyon"],
    "maxResults": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "countries": [
    "FR"
  ],
  "cities": [
    "Lyon"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,frenchdatalab/europe-fuel-prices"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/to9wreLZR5hp3zDql/builds/2AbaxwtihfP2HzRKs/openapi.json