# WA Fuel Prices (FuelWatch) (`zeiphr/wa-fuel-prices`) Actor

Today's and tomorrow's petrol, diesel and LPG prices at every service station in Western Australia, from the official FuelWatch feed. One clean row per station and fuel type, paid per row.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zeiphr/wa-fuel-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [Zeiphr](https://apify.com/zeiphr) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 result rows

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

## WA Fuel Prices (FuelWatch)

Get the petrol, diesel and LPG prices posted at service stations across Western Australia. You get one clean row per station and fuel type, with the station's name, brand, suburb, address, phone number, map position, opening hours and the price. The prices come straight from FuelWatch, the official price feed run by the Government of Western Australia. No coding and no account with the government is needed: choose what you want and press Start.

### Who it is for

- **Drivers, fleet managers and delivery businesses** who want to find the cheapest fuel in a suburb or across Perth.
- **Journalists, researchers and analysts** tracking how fuel prices move between suburbs, brands and days.
- **Anyone** who wants a spreadsheet of today's prices instead of clicking through a website.

### What you can set

| Field | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Fuel types | Which fuels to include: Unleaded 91 (standard petrol), Premium unleaded 95, Premium unleaded 98, Diesel, Premium diesel (the higher grade often used by trucks), LPG (gas sold as autogas) and E85 (a fuel that is mostly ethanol). Default is Unleaded 91. You get one row per station for each fuel you tick. |
| Region | All of Western Australia (default), Perth north of the Swan River, Perth south of the river, or the Perth hills and eastern suburbs. |
| Suburbs | Optional list of suburb or town names, for example `Fremantle` or `Broome`. This is the way to reach anywhere outside Perth. When you add any, each suburb is looked up on its own and the Region setting is ignored. A suburb with no stations simply returns nothing. |
| Brands | Optional list of words, for example `BP`, `Ampol` or `7-Eleven`. Only stations whose brand name contains one of them are kept. Capital letters do not matter. |
| Day | Today (default) or tomorrow. |
| Maximum rows to return | The most rows you want back. Default 1,000, up to 10,000. It also caps what you pay. |

### About the prices

Prices are in Australian cents per litre, so `229.3` means $2.293 a litre. FuelWatch publishes tomorrow's prices each afternoon, Perth time, so asking for "tomorrow" earlier in the day may return nothing. That is normal and the run still finishes successfully with no rows and no charge.

### What you get

One row per station and fuel type, with these fields in this order: `stationName`, `brand`, `fuelType`, `priceCentsPerLitre`, `priceDate`, `suburb`, `address`, `phone`, `latitude`, `longitude`, `siteFeatures` (opening hours and facilities), `restrictions` (for example unmanned sites), `region` (the region you chose, or `SUBURB` when you searched by suburb), `sourceUrl` (the exact feed address the row came from), `source` and `fetchedAt` (when the row was collected). Anything FuelWatch leaves blank is `null`. A station appears only once per fuel and day.

Sample row:

```json
{
  "stationName": "Ampol Rous Head",
  "brand": "Ampol",
  "fuelType": "ULP",
  "priceCentsPerLitre": 229.5,
  "priceDate": "2026-11-04",
  "suburb": "North Fremantle",
  "address": "Cnr North Mole Dr & Rous Head Rd",
  "phone": "(08) 9431 7120",
  "latitude": -32.041146,
  "longitude": 115.738844,
  "siteFeatures": "Open 24 hours",
  "restrictions": "Unmanned site (credit card charges may apply);",
  "region": "SUBURB",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/fuelwatch/fuelWatchRSS?Product=1&Suburb=Fremantle",
  "source": "FuelWatch, Government of Western Australia",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-04T08:30:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

You pay US$0.002 per row returned (US$2 per 1,000 rows), and nothing when there are no matches.

### Limits and tips

- **Suburb searches** also match nearby names that contain yours, so `Fremantle` includes North Fremantle.
- **Speed:** the actor makes one request per fuel type (and per suburb) with a one second pause between requests, so a run with a few fuels finishes in well under a minute.
- **If FuelWatch is down,** the actor tries once more and then stops with a clear message instead of returning half an answer.

Data source: FuelWatch, a service of the Government of Western Australia, https://www.fuelwatch.wa.gov.au/. This tool republishes the public FuelWatch feed with attribution and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of Western Australia.

# Actor input Schema

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

Which fuels you want prices for. Unleaded 91 is the standard petrol. Premium unleaded 95 and 98 are higher-octane petrol (octane is a rating of how well petrol resists knocking in the engine). LPG is liquefied petroleum gas, sold as autogas. E85 is a fuel that is mostly ethanol. Premium diesel is the higher grade often used by trucks. You get one row per station for each fuel you tick.

## `region` (type: `string`):

Which part of Western Australia to cover. Ignored if you fill in 'Suburbs' below.

## `suburbs` (type: `array`):

Names of suburbs or towns, for example Fremantle or Broome. This is the way to reach anywhere outside Perth. When you add any, the run looks up each suburb separately and the 'Region' setting is ignored. A suburb with no stations just returns nothing.

## `brands` (type: `array`):

Only keep stations whose brand name contains one of these words, ignoring capital letters. For example BP, Ampol or 7-Eleven. Leave empty for all brands.

## `day` (type: `string`):

Which day's prices to get. FuelWatch publishes tomorrow's prices each afternoon, Perth time, so 'tomorrow' may return nothing earlier in the day. That is normal.

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

The most rows you want back. You are charged per row returned, so this also caps your cost. One row is one station and one fuel type.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "fuelTypes": [
    "ULP"
  ],
  "region": "ALL_WA",
  "day": "today",
  "maxResults": 1000
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

The fuel price rows as a table.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zeiphr/wa-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zeiphr/wa-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 '{}' |
apify call zeiphr/wa-fuel-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zeiphr/wa-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/6saf2j7UBri1fNLnT/builds/fDQQusBPpWAmMwpXr/openapi.json