EIA Energy Market & Fuel Price Tracker – Energy Data API
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EIA Energy Market & Fuel Price Tracker – Energy Data API
Structured feed of U.S. Energy Information Administration series: fuel prices, generation, consumption and inventories. For energy traders, utilities, analysts and cleantech products.
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An EIA API v2 wrapper and energy-data feed that pulls any EIA series — gasoline and diesel prices, electricity generation, natural-gas storage, crude inventories and more — and normalizes each observation into a clean record with period, numeric value, units and dimensions. Use it to build an energy-price dashboard, a commodity signal, a utility/cleantech data feed, or macro-energy monitoring.
Who uses it
Energy traders and analysts, utilities and cleantech companies, logistics and fleet operators tracking fuel costs, and fintech/dashboard products.
Why this is worth charging for
EIA's v2 API is powerful but its route/facet/sort query model and mixed-shape rows are a barrier. This actor lets you point at any route with a facet filter and returns clean, numeric, deduplicated observations sorted newest-first, ready to chart or monitor on a schedule.
Output
Each dataset item is one normalized record:
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
apiKey | Free key from https://www.eia.gov/opendata/register.php. Required. |
route | EIA v2 data route, e.g. petroleum/pri/gnd (gas prices), electricity/rto/region-data, natural-gas/stor/wkly. |
frequency | e.g. weekly, monthly, annual (must match the route). |
facetKey | Optional facet to filter by, e.g. duoarea, product, respondent. |
facetValue | Value for the facet key, e.g. NUS for national. |
start | Start period, format matching the frequency (e.g. 2023-01). |
end | End period. |
length | Observations per page (EIA max 5000). |
maxPagesToScan | Pages per run. |
onlyNewSinceLastRun | Recommended for schedules — skips records already returned by a previous run using persisted state, so you're only charged for genuinely new items. |
maxItems | Stop after this many normalized records. |
Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)
query— $0.02, charged once per run for the API query/poll.observation-record— $0.005 per normalized record pushed. This is the primary event.apify-actor-start(Apify-managed) — covers baseline compute per run.
One run pulls hundreds to thousands of observations for a few dollars; scheduled runs to append the latest period cost pennies with onlyNewSinceLastRun.
Source & reliability
Data comes from the official api.eia.gov/v2 service; a free API key is required. Values are coerced to numbers and dimensions preserved. No proxies required. Run npm test for the offline self-test covering the normalizer, including edge cases and missing-field handling.
FAQ
Do I need an API key?
Yes — a free EIA key. It goes straight into the input.
Which series can I pull?
Any EIA v2 route — set route (and optional facet) to gas prices, electricity, natural gas, coal, renewables and more.
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