Data Sources

Every price on PetrolPuppy comes directly from an official government portal or authorised open data source. No prices are estimated or scraped from commercial sites. Where a licence requires attribution, it is listed below.

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Australia — Queensland (QLD)

Queensland Department of Energy and Climate

Update frequency: Real-time (every 30 min)Licence: Open Government — free for public use

Legally mandated reporting by service stations under the Fuel Price Reporting Act.

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Australia — New South Wales (NSW)

NSW Fair Trading FuelCheck

Update frequency: Real-timeLicence: Open Government

Prices reported by stations within 5 minutes of price change.

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Australia — Victoria (VIC)

Service Victoria — Servo Saver Open Data API

Update frequency: 24-hour delayedLicence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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Australia — SA, WA, NT, TAS, ACT

State government open data portals

Update frequency: Every 30 minutesLicence: Open Government

Varies by state — all data sourced from official government APIs. TAS and ACT data sourced via NSW FuelCheck.

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Germany (DE)

MTS-K (Bundeskartellamt) via Tankerkönig API

Update frequency: Real-timeLicence: Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

Data from the official German fuel price transparency system (Markttransparenzstelle für Kraftstoffe). Distributed via the Tankerkönig API under CC BY 4.0 licence. Attribution required for use.

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Austria (AT)

E-Control Austria — Spritpreisrechner

Update frequency: Every 30 minutesLicence: Austrian Fuel Price Transparency Act — public data

Data from the E-Control fuel price database, required by Austrian law to be publicly accessible.

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Belgium (BE)

Carbu.com

Update frequency: DailyLicence: Publicly available

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Spain (ES)

MITERD — Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico