Gasvaktin

Gasvaktin aims to be an open and automated price lookup project for petrol stations in Iceland (95 octan bensin and diesel).

Check out gasvaktin.is if you're travelling Iceland and want to find your preferred petrol station in your near vicinity.

Follow Gasvaktin on Twitter if you'd like to be notified on price changes, they're automatically tweeted by @gasvaktin when detected.

If you're interested in working with the current petrol price data provided there is a publicly available API endpoint which exposes current price data, the API is hosted by the awesome icelandic apis.is project, check it out.

If you notice any issues or errors please contact maintainer, or submit a PR to fix the issue.

Gasvaktin watches the following Icelandic oil companies:

• Atlantsolía
• Costco Iceland
• N1
  • Dælan (low-cost company owned by N1)
• Olís
  • ÓB (low-cost company owned by Olís)
• Skeljungur
  • Orkan (low-cost company owned by Skeljungur)

Setup and usage

You need to install python 2.7 and pip and install the following python modules:

pip install -r pip_requirements.txt

Open a terminal in this repository and

cd scripts
python pricer.py

This updates the pretty vaktin/gas.json and the minified vaktin/gas.min.json with newest price data from the oil companies webpages. The script pricer.py is run daily and price changes if any are automatically commited to the repository.

Origination of data

Data over petrol stations and locations is currently just static. Price data from the oil companies is fetched regularly. See here for more details on when prices were last checked.

If you're interested in price trends over time, it can be extracted from git history via the following:

cd scripts
python trends.py

Run python trends.py -h to see available input arguments.

Atlantsolía

Stations

Atlantsolía has a list of its stations here.

Prices

Gas price for each station can be found here, also showing discount prices available if you have Atlantsolía fuel key ring.

Costco Iceland

Stations

Costco Iceland has a single petrol station in Iceland, in Kauptún next to IKEA. Note that you can't buy petrol at this station unless you're a Costco member, Costco membership card in Iceland costs ~5.000 ISK (~49 USD) annually.

Prices

Costco Iceland doesn't plan on showing their petrol prices on their web, at least not in the near future, so we currently have no way of tracking their prices except reading it straight off their pumps in Kauptún. We check and update their prices from time to time in this Google Docs Spreadsheet but due to this procedure not being automatic, prices may not be correct from time to time.

N1 (and Dælan)

Stations

List of stations can be found here. With a bit of examination we can see a JSON endpoint which exposes stations list and location info. Example:

POST https://www.n1.is/umbraco/api/stations/get
Headers = {
	Cookie: _ga=GA1.2.789097346.1420231531; StoreInfo=StoreAlias=IS
	User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.116 Safari/537.36
}

Station locations for Dælan are shown on a picture of a map on dælan.is.

Prices

Price without discount can be seen here. We assume these prices to be global for all N1 stations as we can't find station individual prices anywhere. Discount for N1 business card holders can be seen here. At the time of this writing the discount amount is 3 ISK and 2 N1 points per liter, both for bensin and diesel.

Dælan stations don't have any discount prices, prices are shown on dælan.is.

Olís (and ÓB)

Stations

List of stations can be seen here but unfortunately no geo coordinates seem to be exposed. We might be able to do automatic lookup on for example google maps and use that but manual review would probably always be needed. This is one of the reasons stations data is static.

Prices

Prices for Olís can be seen here and prices for ÓB can be seen here, both with and without special fuel key ring discount.

Skeljungur (and Orkan (and Orkan X))

Stations

In the beginning of 2018 Skeljungur rebranded its remaining stations to Orkan, there are no fuel stations operating under the Skeljungur brand anymore.

List of stations for Orkan and Orkan X can be seen here.

Prices

Prices for Orkan and Orkan X individual stations can be seen here. Information on the discount for Orkan (Afsláttarþrep) is currently missing from the updated Orkan website, before the update there was information available that it's threefold (5/6/8 ISK discount) and is controlled by how much fuel you bought from Orkan the month before (extra +2 discount for user selected station). To simplify we only use the default minimum discount, currently 5 ISK. Orkan X does not maintain a discount program.

Maintainer

@Loknar

Licence

MIT Licence