API Changelog

Metals Price API

Launched the Metals Price API: live spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium with bid and ask, plus copper and aluminum, each with its futures price and contract. Converts to any currency and weight unit.

Commodity Price API

New /v1/commodityspot endpoint (premium plans): spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, and palladium (live, with bid and ask) and the official daily EIA spot price for WTI, Brent, natural gas, gasoline, and heating oil.

Gold Price API

New /v1/goldspot endpoint (premium plans): the gold spot price (XAU/USD), with bid and ask and currency and unit conversion.

Oil Price API

New /v1/oilspot endpoint (premium plans): the U.S. EIA official daily spot price for WTI, Brent, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel, with its date and physical benchmark.

Commodity Price API

/v1/commodityprice, /v1/goldprice, and /v1/oilprice now return futures_contract and futures_contract_month: the futures contract the price is quoted for.

WHOIS API

New registrant fields on paid plans: registrant_privacy, registrant_org, privacy_service, registrant_country, registrant_state, and registrant_name. Redaction placeholders such as REDACTED FOR PRIVACY are no longer returned as values, privacy providers are reported in privacy_service rather than as the owner, and registrant data now resolves for TLDs that no longer run a public WHOIS service, such as .shop and .app.

MCP Server

Every tool now declares MCP annotations. Data tools are marked read-only, so agents can call them without a write-permission prompt.

MCP Server

MCP clients pointed at api-ninjas.com/mcp are now redirected to mcp.api-ninjas.com, keeping the path and query.

Bitcoin API

New /v1/bitcointreasury endpoint: bitcoin held by public companies and ETFs, from SEC filings, with quarterly history. Refreshed weekly.

Crypto Price API

New /v1/cryptotreasury endpoint: SEC-reported corporate and ETF holdings of other crypto assets, such as Ethereum.

Weather API

Responses now include weather_code, weather_description, is_day, and light and dark SVG/PNG icon URLs for each condition. The new /v1/weathericons endpoint lists the full icon set.

Country API

Added flag_url (4:3) and flag_square_url (1:1) SVG flag images to every country.

Motorcycles API

Coverage expanded to 44,000+ models from 638 makes, including model years 2026 and 2027. Make and model matching now ignores case and punctuation.

BIN Lookup API

8-digit BINs are now supported on /v1/bin and /v2/bin, falling back to the 6-digit match when no 8-digit record exists.

MCP Server

Category-scoped MCP endpoints such as /mcp/finance, /mcp/banking, /mcp/geo, /mcp/vehicles, and /mcp/tax load only the tools you need, keeping agent context small.

MCP Server

Every MCP tool now has a description, and missing or invalid API key errors explain how to get a key.

MCP Server

The MCP server now works with API keys on every plan, including Free.

MCP Server

Listed in the official MCP Registry as com.api-ninjas/mcp.

Stock Price API

Added previous_close and change fields.

Commodity Price API

A single request can now return prices for all 30 supported commodities, on every plan including Free.

Earnings Call Transcript API

The cik parameter on /v1/earningstranscriptsearch works again. It accepts zero-padded CIKs and returns every share class (e.g. GOOGL and GOOG).

NAICS Code API

Launched the NAICS Code API: code lookup, keyword search, SBA size standards, risk data, and /v1/naicsclassify, which suggests codes from a plain-language business description.

User Agent API

/v2/useragentparse now parses current Chrome, Edge, Samsung, and ChromeOS user agents, which it had been rejecting as invalid. /v1/useragentgenerate produces current browser versions.

MCP Server

You can authenticate with Authorization: Bearer <key> or an ?apikey= URL parameter, as well as X-Api-Key. Requests to /mcp/ with a trailing slash also work now.

Postal Code API

Postal code lookups now cover 100+ countries through the new country parameter. Input formatting is normalized, and has_postal_codes flags countries without a postal system.

Sales Tax API

New /v1/salestaxnexus endpoint: economic-nexus thresholds for all 50 states and DC, with statute citations.

Motor Carrier API

Launched the Motor Carrier API: about 4.5M US carriers, updated daily. Look up carriers by USDOT or MC number, search, and get insurance filings, safety data, and related entities.

Interest Rate API

rate=effr and the SOFR 30-, 90-, and 180-day averages work again on /v2/interestrate, with history back to 2000 for EFFR and 2020 for SOFR averages.

Interest Rate API

Added prime and lending rates for the US, Canada, Japan, South Africa, China, Malaysia, and Brazil, with history. Long historical results are now paginated.

Oil Price API

Launched the Oil Price API: WTI, Brent, and other energy benchmarks, current and historical, with currency and unit conversion.

Stock Price API

Each day's daily bar is now available from 17:00 ET, one hour after the close.

Mortgage Rate API

Rates now update on the day they are published.

API availability

APIs no longer have scheduled daily downtime on the Free plan.

WHOIS API

Full records now return for TLDs that have retired classic WHOIS, such as .shop, .app, .dev, and .store.

Domain API

available is no longer wrongly true for registered domains on those TLDs. It returns null when availability can't be determined.

Commodity Price API

Fixed intraday timestamps on /v1/commoditypricehistorical. The newest bars are now minutes old.

Historical price APIs

Fixed intermittent quota errors on paid historical stock and commodity requests. Responses are also faster.

Phone Lookup API

Launched the Phone Lookup API: line type (including VoIP), mobile network codes, and disposable-number detection.

IP Lookup API

New fields: is_vpn, is_tor, is_datacenter, is_hosting, is_icloud_relay, is_bogon, is_abuser, threat_level, asn, asn_name, route, and abuse_email. lat and lon are now available on the Free plan.

Domain API

Added registration, expiry, and last-updated timestamps, plus email and hosting provider fields such as mx_provider and hosting_provider.

Treasury Yield API

Launched the Treasury Yield API: par, real, and bill curves, spreads, and a curve_inverted flag, in JSON or CSV. Par history goes back to 1990, and data is updated nightly.

ETF API

Added aum_currency, aum_usd, and domicile for foreign-listed ETFs. country is now the listing country, and holdings coverage is broader.

Institutional Holdings API

When no period is given, holdings now return the manager's latest filed quarter instead of an empty result. /v1/institutionalmovers is much faster.

IPO Calendar API

Rebuilt from SEC filings, with clearer status and deal_type values. The default view shows the active pipeline plus the last 90 days.

Executive Compensation API

Launched the Executive Compensation API: salary, bonus, stock and option awards, and total pay from SEC proxy filings, plus Pay-versus-Performance data, by ticker or CIK.

IBAN API

New invalid_reason field explains why an IBAN failed validation.

Financial Statements APIs

New /v1/incomestatementavailability, /v1/balancesheetavailability, and /v1/cashflowavailability endpoints list which years and quarters are available for a ticker or CIK.

Ticker API

/v1/ticker now returns company sector and industry, plus SIC code and description for US companies.

Sales Tax API

Applied the new Northern Illinois transit tax (+0.25%, effective August 1, 2026) across the six affected counties.

Sales Tax API

Refreshed rates nationwide against official state sources.

VAT Validation API

Launched the VAT Validation API for checking EU VAT numbers. It is also available as an MCP tool.

Routing Number API

Search now accepts the documented zip_code parameter and returns bank names in the same format as lookups.

Routing Number & SWIFT Code APIs

SWIFT/BIC codes and US ABA routing numbers are now cross-mapped on both endpoints.

VAT API

The type filter now applies the documented values (reduced, super_reduced, parking). Rates were refreshed for all EU countries and Northern Ireland.

Earnings Call Transcript API

Speaker search now matches nicknames, so "Mike" finds "Michael".

Airports API

Coverage expanded to about 85,000 airports, heliports, and small airfields (up from about 28,000), with identifiers for airports that have no ICAO code.

Stock Split API

Launched the Stock Split API.

Institutional Holdings API

Launched the Institutional Holdings API.

Earnings Call Transcript API

New speaker endpoints.

Sales Tax API

Sales tax rates can now be looked up by street address.

BSB API

Launched the BSB API for Australian bank-branch codes.

Canada Routing Number API

Launched the Canada Routing Number API.

Sort Code API

Launched the Sort Code API for UK bank sort codes.

Commodity Price API

Upgraded the Commodity Price API.

Earnings Calendar API

Added earnings_timing (before or after market).

Bank Holidays API

Launched the Bank Holidays API.

Earnings Calendar API

Added fiscal year and quarter to each result.

Stock News API

Launched the Stock News API, including historical news.

Mortgage Rate API

New v2 mortgage rate endpoint.

Exchange Rate API

New historical exchange rate endpoint.

ETF API

New ETF list and search endpoints.

Earnings Call Transcript API

Transcript search now supports date ranges.

Airports API

New Airports API endpoints.

MCP Server

Connect AI assistants and agents to API Ninjas through our MCP server.

Exchange Rate API

Exchange rate and currency conversion responses now include a timestamp.