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 GET

https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/commodityprice

Returns the current price information for any given commodity.

Parameters

`name` required

Name of commodity. The supported values are:

Value	Description
`gold`	Gold Futures
`soybean_oil`	Soybean Oil Futures
`wheat`	Wheat Futures
`platinum`	Platinum
`micro_silver`	Micro Silver Futures
`lean_hogs`	Lean Hogs Futures
`corn`	Corn Futures
`oat`	Oat Futures
`aluminum`	Aluminum Futures
`soybean_meal`	Soybean Meal Futures
`silver`	Silver Futures
`soybean`	Soybean Futures
`lumber`	Lumber Futures
`live_cattle`	Live Cattle Futures
`sugar`	Sugar
`natural_gas`	Natural Gas
`crude_oil`	Crude Oil
`orange_juice`	Orange Juice
`coffee`	Coffee
`cotton`	Cotton
`copper`	Copper
`micro_gold`	Micro Gold Futures
`feeder_cattle`	Feeder Cattle Futures
`rough_rice`	Rough Rice Futures
`palladium`	Palladium
`coca`	Cocoa
`brent_crude_oil`	Brent Crude Oil
`gasoline_rbob`	Gasoline RBOB
`heating_oil`	Heating Oil
`class_3_milk`	Class III Milk Futures

Headers

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

Sample Request Live Demo!

name

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

Sample Response

JSON

{
  "exchange": "CME",
  "name": "Silver Futures",
  "price": 26.785,
  "updated": 1714769996
}

Code Examples

import requests

name = 'silver'
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)

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.