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Commodity Price APIs for Developers

Commoditic is a commodity price API provider based in Europe. Commoditic APIs focus on global commodity price data which include metal price data, energy price data, industrial metal price data, agriculture price data, livestock price data and more.

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All commodity APIs return real-time and historical commodity price, unit, daily price change, and daily, weekly and annual percentage change data which you can easily integrate into your data products. Each API focuses on a different category of commodities that you can tell by its name (for example, Metal Prices API, Energy Prices API, etc.) for a simpler and more direct integration experience based on the exact details you are looking to have on your project. The commodity APIs come with a strong Service Level Agreement, making Commoditic a reliable choice in commodity price data for developing the best B2B and B2C services for your clients. Likewise, you can benefit from accurate commodity price data for market analysis, investment planning, and price forecasting.

Let’s take a further look at which assets and commodities the commodity price APIs cover, along with useful details for developers!


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Metal Prices API

The Metal Prices API by Commoditic focuses on precious metal price data that are mostly tracked for investment purposes. Metal price data is available historically and updated in real-time, allowing you to plan a roadmap for making the right investment decisions or build your clients the ultimate platform to do the same. Keep track of price changes and changes in the percentages. Metal Prices API focuses on:

  • Copper price data
  • Gold price data
  • HRC steel price data
  • Iron ore price data
  • Lithium price data
  • Palladium price data
  • Platinum price data
  • Silver price data
  • Steel price data
  • Titanium price data

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Energy Prices API

Energy prices are always on close watch, especially these days when there is an ongoing energy crisis. Commoditic Energy Prices API provides real-time dynamically and historical energy price data on multiple energy commodities. Asses price fluctuations, make forecasts, design investment platforms, or shape your portfolio by integrating the energy price data. The Energy Prices API provides:

  • Brent price data
  • Coal price data
  • Crude oil price data
  • Ethanol price data
  • Gasoline price data
  • Heating oil price data
  • Methanol price data
  • Naphtha price data
  • Natural gas price data
  • Propane price data
  • TTF gas price data
  • UK gas price data
  • Urals oil price data
  • Uranium price data

Agriculture Prices API

The Agriculture Prices API promises to be an all-in-one external data source for agriculture commodity price information. The agriculture price data is provided both historically and in real-time with updates. The API also promises adequate details, easy integration, and a good variety of agriculture-related commodities available. The Agriculture Prices API offers:

  • Butter price data
  • Canola price data
  • Cheese price data
  • Cocoa price data
  • Coffee price data
  • Corn price data
  • Cotton price data
  • Lumber price data
  • Milk price data
  • Oat price data
  • Palm oil price data
  • Potatoes price data … and many more!

Industrial Commodity Prices API

The Industrial Commodity Prices API is sort of a sub-category of the Metal Prices API. This API focuses on metals and chemicals (for example, Zinc which has metallurgic features) that are directly used in industry, often as raw materials. The Industrial Prices API focuses on the most widely used and invested, industrial commodities that are considered essential. These include:

  • Aluminum price data
  • Cobalt price data
  • Iron ore 62% Fe price data
  • Lead price data
  • Magnesium price data
  • Molybdenum price data
  • Neodymium price data
  • Nickel price data
  • Palladium price data
  • Rhodium price data
  • Tellurium price data
  • Tin price data ... and many more!

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Livestock Prices API

Experts expect the meat industry to rise to one trillion USD by 2025, making livestock price data an eye-catching asset for making investment decisions. By integrating the Commotidic Livestock Prices API, you may get a competitive advantage in forecasting profit for livestock investment.

You may simply specify the livestock commodity by its name as in “Live Cattle” in the endpoint, and the API will return you the complete details from the unit type, price, price changes, price percentage changes, and more. Get the data historically or in real time.


Developer Documentation and API Access

The complete commodity data is provided via JSON REST APIs as the data delivery tool or in XLSX and CSV as downloadable files.

Commodity Price APIs allow a smooth integration with its compatibility with the leading programming languages like Javascript, JQuery, VueJS, Angular, JAVA, PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go, Ruby, C#, R, Strest, Rust, Swift, and Scala.

View the complete documentation below:

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Got any questions? Contact Commoditic support for any questions you may have on the data and the APIs, and we will get back to you.

Visit the Commoditic Website for more information, pricing, and example API output for each commodity API!

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