Energy Commodities Prices API
Rediscover the data
Commodities Energy Prices API by Commoditic enables you to track the dynamic energy commodity market as it provides you with historical and real-time energy prices data of crude oil, natural gas, brent, gasoline, heating oil, coal, TTF gas, UK gas, propane, uranium, methanol, urals oil, naphtha and ethanol. The energy pricing data coverage helps you assess the price fluctuations of the primary energy commodities, and guide your decision-making process, especially when you consider investing in manufacturing companies or sectors whose growth is heavily dependent on the energy price fluctuations.
List of Energy Commodities
- Crude Oil (Light Sweet Crude, Brent Crude)
- Natural Gas
- Gasoline
- Heating Oil
- Diesel
- Coal
- Uranium
- Ethanol
- Propane
- Electricity
- Biofuel
- Wind Power (Renewable Energy Certificates)
- Solar Power (Renewable Energy Certificates)
- Geothermal Energy
- Hydro Power
- Biomass
Commodity: Natural Gas
Price: $3.50
High: $3.75
Low: $3.40
Open: $3.45
Close: $3.50
Daily Change: +$0.05
Weekly Change: +$0.10
Monthly Change: +$0.20
Q1 Change: +$0.30
Q2 Change: -$0.15
Q3 Change: +$0.25
Q4 Change: +$0.35
Date: 2023-06-07
Time: 15:00 EST
Unit: Million British Thermal Units (MMBtu)
Currency: USD
Symbol: NGUse Cases of Energy Commodities Pricing Data
The Commodities Energy Prices API provides you with the needed energy pricing data to analyze the past and present state of the energy commodity market empowering you to make forecasts about the future. Moreover, the present and forecasted prices of energy commodities are interrelated, especially when commodity futures are taken into account.
For example, consider the following situation and its respective circumstantial information. If a buyer is interested to purchase barrels of gas or oil in the mid-2022, at the beginning of the same year, he signs a future contract that determines the date of the commodity exchange and the respective sum to be paid. In the midst of 2022, he buys the energy commodities at lower prices negotiated earlier despite the soaring energy commodity prices resulting from the war in Ukraine. In fact, according to the World Bank Commodity Markets Outlook report, by the end of 2022 and 2023, energy prices are expected to rise by 50% due to the war in Ukraine.
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
Energy Commodities 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 energy prices data as downloadable databases in Excel or CSV files.
To make an API request for the price of an energy 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 energy 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.