PretCarburant.ro Public API — REST v1

Programmatic access to aggregated Romanian fuel price data. Same data we use on the site, refreshed every 2 hours, no authentication required. Licensed Creative Commons BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution.

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Available Endpoints

Base URL: https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/. All responses are JSON with Cache-Control: public, max-age=300 and Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on public endpoints.

REST v1 Endpoints
EndpointDescriptionRate limit
GET /api/v1/preturi City-aggregated prices (optional filter ?judet=CLUJ) None (5-min cache)
GET /api/v1/preturi/minime National min/avg/max prices per fuel type None (5-min cache)
GET /api/v1/judete/<judet> County-level aggregated average price (e.g. /api/v1/judete/CLUJ) 1 request/week per IP
GET /api/v1/retele Monitored networks with brand-aggregated prices 1 request/week per IP
GET /api/v1/statii Station list with coordinates, brand, prices (filters: ?brand=, ?tip=, ?lat=&lon=&raza= for stations within radius, km) Each record includes a stable per-station id. 1 request/week per IP
GET /api/v1/statie/<station_id>/istoric Price history for one station (station_id = the id field from /api/v1/statii; unknown id → 404) 1 request/week per IP
GET /api/v1/geocode City-name autocomplete (?q=cluj, min 2 characters) 1 request/week per IP
POST /api/v1/traseu/custom Stations along an A→B route (JSON body: start, end, tip) 1 request/week per IP

cURL Examples

City-aggregated prices

curl -s https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/preturi | jq '.rezultate[0]'

Filter by county

curl -s "https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/preturi?judet=CLUJ" | jq '.rezultate'

National minimum prices

curl -s https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/preturi/minime | jq '.preturi'

Petrom stations selling diesel

curl -s "https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/statii?brand=petrom&tip=motorina_standard" | jq '.statii | length'

Stations within 10 km (lat/lon)

curl -s "https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/statii?lat=46.77&lon=23.62&raza=10" | jq '.total'

County average price

curl -s https://pretcarburant.ro/api/v1/judete/CLUJ | jq

Rate Limits and AI Bot Policy

Anonymous users hit 1 request/week/IP on rate-limited endpoints (/retele, /statii, /istoric). The /preturi and /preturi/minime endpoints are rate-limit-free (5-minute cache).

AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, etc.) are bypassed via an explicit User-Agent whitelist. They get a 60 req/min/IP cap instead, so they can cite our data directly in answers. Whitelisted UAs include: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Googlebot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot, MistralAI, cohere-ai, YouBot, DiffBot, Bravebot and others.

Response Format

All responses share this shape:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "data": "2026-05-07",
  "rezultate": [...]
}

On error:

{
  "status": "error",
  "message": "Rate limit: 1 request per week...",
  "retry_after_seconds": 543210
}

License and Attribution

Data is published under Creative Commons BY 4.0. Free to use commercially or non-commercially with visible attribution: "Source: PretCarburant.ro (https://pretcarburant.ro)".

The full dataset is also published on Zenodo with DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19560194. Organization identity on Wikidata: Q139285387.

Commercial / high-volume access

The free CC-BY 4.0 tier stays unchanged: 1 request/week per IP on rate-limited endpoints, with visible attribution. We are not closing or capping it — public data stays public.

For apps, fleets, newsrooms and any high-volume integration, there are commercial plans with instant activation — your API key arrives by email within minutes of subscribing:

  • Starter — €19/month, 10,000 requests/month
  • Pro — €49/month, 100,000 requests/month
  • Business — €149/month, 1,000,000 requests/month, priority support

All plans include a 3-day free trial, access to every endpoint without the weekly quota, and X-RateLimit-* headers for usage monitoring. See plans and subscribe →

Special needs (contractual SLA, bulk export, historical snapshots, extended rights without attribution)? Write to us for a dedicated quote.

Version History

Contact and Bug Reports

Email: contact@pretcarburant.ro. For technical bugs or feature requests, prefix the subject with „[API]". We reply within 48 business hours.

Responsible disclosure for security issues: see /.well-known/security.txt.