Commodity Price API

The Commodity Price API provides access to real-time commodity prices for dozens of commonly-traded commodities in major exchanges (CME, NYMEX, etc.)

/v1/commodityprice

`HTTP GET`

Returns the current price information for any given commodity.

Parameters

name (required) - name of commodity. The supported commodities are:.

Gold Futures
Soybean Oil Futures
Wheat Futures
Platinum
Micro Silver Futures
Lean Hogs Futures
Corn Futures
Oat Futures
Aluminum Futures
Soybean Meal Futures
Silver Futures
Soybean Futures
Lumber Futures
Live Cattle Futures
Sugar
Natural Gas
Crude Oil
Orange Juice
Coffee
Cotton
Copper
Micro Gold Futures
Feeder Cattle Futures
Rough Rice Futures
Palladium
Cocoa
Brent Crude Oil
Gasoline RBOB
Heating Oil
Class III Milk Futures

Headers

X-Api-Key (required) - API Key associated with your account.

Sample Request URL

Live Demo!

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name=

Sample Response

{
  "exchange": "CME", 
  "name": "Gold Futures", 
  "price": 2051.4, 
  "updated": 1706632871
}

Code Examples

import requests
name = 'Gold Futures'
api_url = 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name={}'.format(name)
response = requests.get(api_url, headers={'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'})
if response.status_code == requests.codes.ok:
    print(response.text)
else:
    print("Error:", response.status_code, response.text)

var name = 'Gold Futures'
$.ajax({
    method: 'GET',
    url: 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name=' + name,
    headers: { 'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
    contentType: 'application/json',
    success: function(result) {
        console.log(result);
    },
    error: function ajaxError(jqXHR) {
        console.error('Error: ', jqXHR.responseText);
    }
});

const request = require('request');
var name = 'Gold Futures'
request.get({
  url: 'https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name=' + name,
  headers: {
    'X-Api-Key': 'YOUR_API_KEY'
  },
}, function(error, response, body) {
  if(error) return console.error('Request failed:', error);
  else if(response.statusCode != 200) return console.error('Error:', response.statusCode, body.toString('utf8'));
  else console.log(body)
});

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

URL url = new URL("https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name=Gold Futures");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("accept", "application/json");
InputStream responseStream = connection.getInputStream();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
JsonNode root = mapper.readTree(responseStream);
System.out.println(root.path("fact").asText());

let url = URL(string: "https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice?name=Gold Futures"!)!
var request = URLRequest(url: url)
request.setValue("YOUR_API_KEY", forHTTPHeaderField: "X-Api-Key")
let task = URLSession.shared.dataTask(with: request) {(data, response, error) in
    guard let data = data else { return }
    print(String(data: data, encoding: .utf8)!)
}
task.resume()

If your programming language is not listed in the Code Example above, you can still make API calls by using a HTTP request library written in your programming language and following the above documentation.