API documentation
US Fuel Demand API
Since 1990The demand proxy the market reads every Wednesday: EIA "products supplied", weekly, for total petroleum and six product groups.
500 req/mo · No credit card required · One key, every API on the platform
- Checking status…
- Weekly since Nov 1990 (total)
- 7 products: total · gasoline · distillate · jet-fuel · propane · residual · other-oils
- Unit: thousand barrels per day
- Release: Wednesdays 10:30 ET (WPSR)
Base URL & authentication
All endpoints live under one base URL. Authenticate every request with your key
in the X-Api-Key header — no OAuth, no signing. The same key works
on every API of the platform.
# Base URL {{GATEWAY_URL}} # Every request X-Api-Key: sk_live_YOUR_KEY
Missing or invalid keys return 401 — see
errors. The demo endpoint is the only keyless route.
Endpoints
All paths relative to the base URL. Every 200 ships ETag,
Cache-Control and RateLimit-* headers.
| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | /fuel-demand/latest Free+ | Latest demand value of all seven products |
| GET | /fuel-demand/{product} Free+ | Latest demand value of a single product |
| GET | /fuel-demand/{product}/history Free+ | Paginated weekly history for a product |
{product}: total | gasoline | distillate | jet-fuel | propane | residual | other-oils. History: start/end (YYYY-MM-DD, keyset via meta.next_end), limit 1–100 (default 30).
Sample — 200 /fuel-demand/latest
{
"data": [
{ "product": "total", "period": "2026-07-10", "value": 19477, "unit": "thousand barrels per day", "source": "EIA" },
{ "product": "gasoline", "period": "2026-07-10", "value": 8844, "unit": "thousand barrels per day", "source": "EIA" }
],
"meta": { "source": "U.S. Energy Information Administration", "area": "us" }
}
Errors, auth & limits
One uniform error contract everywhere:
{ "error": { "code", "message" } } with stable,
machine-readable codes — shared by every API on the platform.
| Status | Code | When |
|---|---|---|
| 401 | UNAUTHORIZED | Missing X-Api-Key header, or invalid/revoked key. |
| 400 | VALIDATION_ERROR | Bad query/path parameters. |
| 404 | PRODUCT_NOT_FOUND · NO_DATA · NOT_FOUND | Unknown value for the path parameter (the message lists the valid ones), no data for the requested range yet, or unknown route. |
| 429 | RATE_LIMITED | Per-minute limit of your plan exceeded — check Retry-After. |
| 429 | QUOTA_EXCEEDED | Monthly cap reached. Nothing is billed on top — resets on the 1st (UTC). |
| 502 | UPSTREAM_ERROR | The origin API was unreachable — retry shortly. |
Data provenance
The EIA Weekly Petroleum Status Report, "products supplied" series — the official weekly demand proxy. Total since Nov 1990; most products since Feb 1991; propane and other-oils since Apr 2004. Published Wednesdays 10:30 ET on the prior survey week. This product is not endorsed by or affiliated with the EIA.
Example
curl -H "X-Api-Key: sk_live_YOUR_KEY" \ https://api.synergicapis.com/fuel-demand/latest
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://api.synergicapis.com/fuel-demand/latest",
headers={"X-Api-Key": "sk_live_YOUR_KEY"},
)
r.raise_for_status()
print(r.json()["data"])
const res = await fetch("https://api.synergicapis.com/fuel-demand/latest", { headers: { "X-Api-Key": "sk_live_YOUR_KEY" }, }); const { data } = await res.json(); console.log(data);
Live demo
Real request against the production API — no key needed here (demo endpoint, 5 requests/minute).
Press the button to fetch the latest official figures.