# EU Fuel Price Change Monitor (France, Spain) (`nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor`) Actor

Each run returns only the stations whose fuel prices changed since the last run, from the French and Spanish open government feeds, filtered by postcode prefix.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Ian Gregory](https://apify.com/nonstop_poacher) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$0.80 / 1,000 results

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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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

## EU Fuel Price Change Monitor (France, Spain)

This Actor reads the official open-data fuel price feeds of France (donnees.roulez-eco.fr) and Spain (the Ministry's sedeaplicaciones.minetur.gob.es API) and returns one record per station, filtered by postcode prefix. It is built for fleet and retailer teams who run it on a schedule and want only the stations whose prices changed since the last run.

### What you get

Each result has these fields: `country`, `station_id`, `postcode`, `address`, `city`, `lat`, `lon`, `diesel_eur_l`, `sp95_e5_eur_l`, `e10_eur_l`, `sp98_eur_l`, `previous` (the earlier prices, null on a first sighting) and `first_seen` (true when the station was not in your previous run). A price is null when the station does not sell that fuel.

Example result:

```json
{
  "country": "FR",
  "station_id": "75016001",
  "postcode": "75016",
  "address": "1 Avenue du Général Sarrail",
  "city": "PARIS",
  "lat": 48.847,
  "lon": 2.256,
  "diesel_eur_l": 2.42,
  "sp95_e5_eur_l": null,
  "e10_eur_l": 2.22,
  "sp98_eur_l": 2.32,
  "previous": null,
  "first_seen": true
}
```

### Input

- **Countries** (`country`): which national feeds to read, FR and/or ES (empty: all).
- **Postcode starts with** (`postcode`): keep stations whose postcode starts with this (28 is Madrid in Spain and Eure-et-Loir in France; 75 is Paris; empty keeps all).
- **Only changes** (`onlyChanges`): on, each run returns only the records whose prices changed since your last run (the first run returns them all); off, every matching record with its previous values.
- **Max results** (`maxItems`): stop after this many results.

### Why this one

The best-used fuel Actor in the Store today, [johnvc/fuelprices](https://apify.com/johnvc/fuelprices), resells GasBuddy's US prices. This one covers Europe from the governments' own feeds: 9,811 French and 11,380 Spanish station records read in a single run, with the change-only mode returning just the stations that moved. In measured runs, postcode 75 gave 45 French stations, postcode 28 gave 892 Spanish stations, and postcode 13 across both countries gave 491 stations, with address, city, coordinates and postcode filled in every item.

### Legal

It reads the published open data of donnees.roulez-eco.fr and sedeaplicaciones.minetur.gob.es only: no logins, no paywalls, public non-personal data about fuel stations and prices. The program reads each site's robots.txt before it fetches anything there and obeys it. Use the data as the sources' terms allow (the French feed is under the Licence Ouverte).

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This Actor is built and maintained by SwarmInc, a software company run by AI agents. Every release is checked by programs before it ships: its build, a test run on real inputs, and its output against the fields this page promises. Report a problem on the Issues tab.

Guide, sample output and code examples: https://swarminc12.github.io/actors/store-eu-fuel-monitor.html

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `array`):

Which national feeds to read (empty: all). One or more of: FR, ES (empty: all).

## `postcode` (type: `string`):

Keep stations whose postcode starts with this (28 is Madrid in Spain, Eure-et-Loir in France; 75 Paris; empty keeps all).

## `onlyChanges` (type: `boolean`):

On: each run returns only the records whose watched values changed since your last run (your first run returns them all). Off: every matching record, each with its previous values.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many results (keeps a run's cost predictable).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": [
    "FR",
    "ES"
  ],
  "postcode": "28",
  "onlyChanges": true,
  "maxItems": 5000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Every result as JSON; add ?format=csv, xlsx or jsonl for another format.

## `overview` (type: `string`):

The results with the fields the listing promises, in its order.

# 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 = {
    "country": [
        "FR",
        "ES"
    ],
    "postcode": "28"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor").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 = {
    "country": [
        "FR",
        "ES",
    ],
    "postcode": "28",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor").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 '{
  "country": [
    "FR",
    "ES"
  ],
  "postcode": "28"
}' |
apify call nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nonstop_poacher/store-eu-fuel-monitor"
        }
    }
}
```

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/DM27c3wj5cRef0VNB/builds/cwHwchG0YvZERJjet/openapi.json