Metals Commodities Prices API
Rediscover the data
Commodities Metals Prices API by Commoditic is a fast and reliable software toolkit that provides you with real-time and historical metals prices. Not only do you get both spot and historical metal prices for a particular date or a time range, but you can also request the following data items including units, daily price change, daily percentage change, weekly percentage change, monthly percentage change, and yearly percentage change.
List of Metal Commodities
- Gold
- Silver
- Platinum
- Palladium
- Copper
- Aluminum
- Zinc
- Lead
- Nickel
- Tin
- Iron Ore
- Steel
- Cobalt
- Lithium
- Titanium
- Molybdenum
- Uranium
- Tungsten
- Neodymium
- Lanthanum
- Magnesium
- Antimony
- Bismuth
Commodity: Platinum
Price: $950
High: $970
Low: $940
Open: $945
Close: $950
Daily Change: +$5
Weekly Change: +$10
Monthly Change: +$20
Q1 Change: +$30
Q2 Change: -$10
Q3 Change: +$15
Q4 Change: +$25
Date: 2023-03-07
Time: 16:00 EST
Unit: Troy Ounce
Currency: USD
Symbol: PL Use Cases of Commodities Metals Pricing Data
The metals pricing data coverage focuses on precious metals prices of gold, silver, palladium, platinum, steel; and on the industrial metals prices of copper, zinc, lead, tin, aluminum, lithium, titanium, iron ore.
Based on the classification of the metals, Commodities Metals Prices API is also subdivided into Precious Metals Prices API and Industrial Metals Prices API. By using Commoditic Metals Prices data, you are able to invent your own metal price index, or make analyses and forecasts about the metals industry. In addition, you can keep track of the ongoing tendencies and occurring events in the global manufacturing and construction industries once you have the industrial metals prices data at your disposal.
Data Delivery Methods
Developer Documentation
There are two primary ways to request energy commodities pricing data. You can choose either API as a data delivery tool, or Excel and CSV files as downloadable databases.
JSON API & SDKs
Commodities Metals Prices API by Commoditic is a JSON REST API. However, you can use it in several programming languages: Javascript, JQuery, VueJS, Angular, JAVA, PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go, Ruby, C#, R, Strest, Rust, Swift and Scala.
Downloadable Databases in Excel and CSV files
In case you are not a software engineer or you simply don’t get along well with API, then you can request metals prices data as downloadable databases in Excel or CSV files.
To make an API request for the price of a metal commodity, you have to use the key filtering parameter “name” in the API URL Path.
Once you have selected the commodity name, you will get an API response for the price of the respective metal commodity. The output contains data about the commodity category, its name, unit, price, day price change, day percentage change, weekly percentage change, monthly percentage change, yearly percentage change and date.