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. All quoted prices are in USD.

Parameters

`name` required

Name of commodity. The supported values are:

Value	Description	Premium Only
`gold`	Gold Futures	No
`soybean_oil`	Soybean Oil Futures	Yes
`wheat`	Wheat Futures	Yes
`platinum`	Platinum	No
`micro_silver`	Micro Silver Futures	Yes
`lean_hogs`	Lean Hogs Futures	No
`corn`	Corn Futures	Yes
`oat`	Oat Futures	No
`aluminum`	Aluminum Futures	No
`soybean_meal`	Soybean Meal Futures	No
`silver`	Silver Futures	Yes
`soybean`	Soybean Futures	Yes
`lumber`	Lumber Futures	No
`live_cattle`	Live Cattle Futures	Yes
`sugar`	Sugar	Yes
`natural_gas`	Natural Gas	Yes
`crude_oil`	Crude Oil	Yes
`orange_juice`	Orange Juice	Yes
`coffee`	Coffee	Yes
`cotton`	Cotton	Yes
`copper`	Copper	Yes
`micro_gold`	Micro Gold Futures	No
`feeder_cattle`	Feeder Cattle Futures	No
`rough_rice`	Rough Rice Futures	No
`palladium`	Palladium	No
`cocoa`	Cocoa	Yes
`brent_crude_oil`	Brent Crude Oil	Yes
`gasoline_rbob`	Gasoline RBOB	Yes
`heating_oil`	Heating Oil	Yes
`class_3_milk`	Class III Milk Futures	Yes

Headers

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

Sample Request Live Demo!

name

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

Sample Response

JSON

{
  "exchange": "NYMEX",
  "name": "Platinum",
  "price": 995.05,
  "updated": 1728677095
}

Code Examples

import requests

name = 'platinum'
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.