Glossary
station-level crowdsourced fuel prices
station-level crowdsourced fuel prices is per-station fuel prices collected from user reports rather than official surveys, refreshed in near real time, which the catalog classifies as a data product category. Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets documents it directly in GasBuddy update_frequency.
What is station-level crowdsourced fuel prices?
Per-station fuel prices collected from user reports rather than official surveys, refreshed in near real time.
GasBuddy aggregates reports from more than 150,000 US and Canadian stations to city, state/province and national averages, but exposes them only through proprietary web pages and chart images under a freemium model.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - GasBuddy update_frequency.
Why does station-level crowdsourced fuel prices matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable. Teams that license on the strength of a product-name match routinely find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than they assumed, and backfilling history afterwards costs more than the license ever did.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and GasBuddy update_frequency lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate station-level crowdsourced fuel prices in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open GasBuddy update_frequency and compare its listing against the delivered artifact before paying for a commercial equivalent.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: oil-gas-refining-marketing data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - retail fuel pump prices - web scraping
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of station-level crowdsourced fuel prices?
GasBuddy update_frequency is the clearest example in this catalog. Its listing is the reference point for this pattern. Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "station-level crowdsourced fuel prices" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing station-level crowdsourced fuel prices
6 datasets carry station-level crowdsourced fuel prices in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
data.gov Federal Energy Catalog (petroleum tag)
title · description · organization / publisher …+3 more
EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO)
series_id · row_label · period …+2 more
EU Weekly Oil Bulletin
Date · <CC>_price_with_tax_euro95 · <CC>_price_with_tax_diesel …+5 more
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