Most people who search for a GasBuddy proxy want its station prices in bulk. They want to watch competitors, study a region or feed an app. This page answers from the GasBuddy Terms of Service, its help center and the official US price sources, read on 28 September 2026. The short answer: the terms forbid scraping, building a database from the site and getting around its protection. For averages, the US Energy Information Administration and AAA publish prices for free. For station-level data, GasBuddy offers fuel retailers a dashboard through Business Pages.
What the GasBuddy terms forbid
The Terms of Service for the USA took effect on 24 April 2026. Their list of prohibited conduct covers each step of a scraper.
| step of a scraper | what the terms say |
|---|---|
| a script reads the prices | barred, unless it is GasBuddy software |
| the prices go into a database | barred |
| a proxy or browser gets past the check | barred |
| the data is sold or passed on | needs written consent |
One line bars scraping or downloading "fuel price or other data" with any tool, "including automated scripts, spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools or the like". Another bars anyone who would "create a database by systematically downloading and storing" content from the site. A third bars any attempt to "avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble or otherwise circumvent any technological measure" that protects it. Data from the site may not be forwarded without "the prior written consent of GasBuddy", and nothing on it may be exploited "for any commercial purpose". The rewards terms of 30 June 2026 add that no one may use "automated systems, scripts, macros, bots" to take part in its programs.
Where GasBuddy prices come from
GasBuddy prices are reports, not feeds from the stations. Its help center says they are "primarily gathered from volunteer spotters, including our everyday GasBuddy members". Reports from the app count for more than reports from the website, because the app knows where the reporter stands. A visitor who is not signed in only fills a gap: those prices show only when a station has no current price.
GasBuddy puts the scale on its business page: 150 thousand retail locations in the US and Canada, 3 billion fuel price reports so far, and 12 million monthly active users. PDI, which bought GasBuddy in April 2021, called this "crowd-sourced gas pricing information". So a price comes with an age and a reporter, and it can be wrong. The help center asks users who see a wrong price to report the right one.
The terms also bar "false or misleading User Content". The Top Spotters ranking only counts reports made at the station, with location services on.
Official sources for average prices
For averages, nothing needs scraping. The US Energy Information Administration releases gasoline and diesel prices every week. Its table covers the US, its regions, several states such as California and Texas, and cities such as Chicago and Seattle. The latest release was on 22 September 2026, and the next is due on 29 September. The data is free through the EIA API, which asks for a registration and a key.
AAA publishes national and state averages every day. The page we read on 28 September 2026 showed a national average of $4.4798. Neither source gives prices station by station, which is the one thing GasBuddy has.
| source | what it gives | how often |
|---|---|---|
| EIA | US, regional, some state and city prices | weekly |
| AAA | national and state averages | daily |
| GasBuddy Business Pages | station dashboard for retailers | real time |
Station-level data, the licensed way
Station prices are GasBuddy content, and GasBuddy offers them to the trade. It documents no public API: a search of its help center for "api" returns no article. Its Business Pages product gives fuel retailers "real-time big data in an easy-to-use dashboard". The page lists competitor benchmarking and gas price charts, and station owners can update their own prices there. If a business needs station prices, the first step is to ask GasBuddy, since the terms require written consent to pass data on.
What our server got
On 28 September 2026 our server in the United States got the GasBuddy home page and terms page with status 200. The help center web pages showed it a Cloudflare check, "Just a moment...", with status 403. The help center API answered, and that is how we read the articles. This page does not show how to get past a check, and the terms forbid it.
If you use proxies for other work
Nothing on this page reads GasBuddy through a proxy. Our pages on proxies for Kroger and proxies for 7-Eleven cover other retail prices. For the basics, see datacenter versus residential proxies and our Playwright proxy guide. Our free proxy list costs nothing. Our ISP proxies start at $2.70/IP, our residential traffic at $0.44/GB, and the rest is on the pricing page.
The limits of this page
We did not scrape GasBuddy, log in, report a price or use its app. The help center web pages show our server a check, so its articles come from its public help-center API. The scale figures are the ones GasBuddy and PDI publish, not our count. We did not ask GasBuddy what Business Pages costs or which data it includes. This page is due for a check by 28 December 2026.
Sources
We read every source below on 28 September 2026.
- GasBuddy, Terms of Service, USA, effective 24 April 2026, with the rewards terms of 30 June 2026.
- GasBuddy Help Center: Reporting Prices, Finding Prices, What are Top Spotters? and Station Owners.
- GasBuddy, Business Pages.
- PDI Technologies, PDI acquires GasBuddy, 27 April 2021.
- US Energy Information Administration, Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update and Open Data.
- AAA, Fuel Prices.
