UK government launches fuel forecourt price API • Hacker News Board

Re: UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

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Post by bitdivision » Thu, Feb 05, 2026, 1:24 PM UTC

upmostly wrote: post #131

I spent the last few hours hacking together PetrolMate using this dataset: https://petrolmate.co.uk A couple of interesting observations while building it: Yesterday the dataset had ~600 stations. Today it’s reporting 6,666 stations from the UK government feed, which is… a slightly ominous number, but according to the data and me asking an LLM, that’s close to full UK coverage already. I deliberately went for a “pure…

Looks great. Interesting to see that a lot of stations are included but without prices.

Note, in brave on linux I can't see the map. Console has a lot of 401 on stadiamaps. But works great in chrome.

Re: UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

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Post by txomon » Sat, Feb 07, 2026, 7:42 AM UTC

thebruce87m wrote: post #87

blibble wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> though I do miss the fact that Waze shows you your current speed. this is the only reason I use waze!

I feel like I’m missing something here - presumably your vehicle has a speedometer? What does the Waze speed dial give you over this? Unless you mean that it has the speed limit too, if so I agree that it’s a must have, along with the speed camera alerts.

It gives you your current speed, the speed limit, and flashes warns when you go over the limit. I find it more helpful than plain speedometer because sometimes you don't notice speed limit changes

Re: UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

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Post by jaffa2 » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 1:44 PM UTC

upmostly wrote: post #131

I spent the last few hours hacking together PetrolMate using this dataset: https://petrolmate.co.uk A couple of interesting observations while building it: Yesterday the dataset had ~600 stations. Today it’s reporting 6,666 stations from the UK government feed, which is… a slightly ominous number, but according to the data and me asking an LLM, that’s close to full UK coverage already. I deliberately went for a “pure…

Doesn't seem to have any data for Morrisons Stations. Is this a glitch in the data, or Morrisons, or the app ?