Live petrol and diesel prices near any UK postcode, as JSON. No API key, CORS enabled, refreshed every 15 minutes from the UK Government Fuel Finder scheme. Free under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| postcode | Full postcode ("LS1 4AP") or outward code ("LS1", "SW1A", "BT28") |
| fuel_type | E10 petrol (default), E5 super unleaded, B7_STANDARD diesel, B7_PREMIUM premium diesel |
| radius | Search radius in miles, 1–20 (default 5) |
| limit | Number of stations, 1–5 (default 3) |
Responses are cached for five minutes and served with Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *, so browser-side calls work without a proxy.
curl
curl "https://fuelnearyou.com/api/v1/dashboard/widget/nearby?postcode=LS1&fuel_type=E10&limit=3"Response
{
"postcode": "LS1",
"fuel_type": "E10",
"stations": [
{"name": "COSTCO WHOLESALE LEEDS", "brand": "COSTCO WHOLESALE", "price": 141.9, "distance_miles": 1.0},
{"name": "SHELL REGENT", "brand": "SHELL", "price": 146.9, "distance_miles": 0.8}
]
}JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://fuelnearyou.com/api/v1/dashboard/widget/nearby?postcode=M1&fuel_type=B7_STANDARD");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data.stations[0]); // cheapest diesel near Manchester M1Python
import requests
r = requests.get("https://fuelnearyou.com/api/v1/dashboard/widget/nearby",
params={"postcode": "EH1", "fuel_type": "E10", "limit": 5})
for s in r.json()["stations"]:
print(f"{s['name']}: {s['price']}p ({s['distance_miles']} mi)")The free embeddable widget renders a live "cheapest fuel near {postcode}" card on your site with one copy-paste snippet — it uses this same API underneath.
Yes — this one. Live petrol and diesel prices near any UK postcode as JSON, no key required, refreshed every 15 minutes from the UK Government Fuel Finder scheme. Attribution under CC BY 4.0 is required.
No. The endpoint is open with CORS enabled, so it works directly from browsers as well as servers. Responses are cached for five minutes. Please keep usage fair — roughly one request per user action, not bulk scraping.
From the official UK Government Fuel Finder scheme, under which fuel retailers report their pump prices. Fuel Near You ingests, quality-filters and serves the data with a 15-minute refresh across ~8,000 forecourts.
Credit "Fuel Near You (fuelnearyou.com)" with a link, per CC BY 4.0 — for example, "Fuel price data from Fuel Near You".
Yes — llms.txt provides a machine-readable index with live national averages, and llms-full.txt lists today's cheapest petrol for all 274 covered towns. Both are designed for AI answer engines to cite with attribution.