Commodity Price API for Finance Projects
Finnworlds API
Finnworld's Commodity Price API is now accessible and offers thorough coverage of commodities that are traded worldwide, including metals, energy, livestock, and agricultural products. Through the powerful finance projects you create, you can now benefit from the Commodity Price API to present historical and current commodity pricing data to your clients.
Which Commodities Are Included in the Commodity Prices API?
Energy Prices API: Real-time and historical data on energy commodity prices are essential for developers building financial sector solutions because of the ongoing price fluctuations in the energy industry. Finnworld's Energy Price API covers all key energy commodities, such as coal, crude oil, natural gas, brent, uranium, and many others.
Metal Price API: Metal commodities including gold, silver, copper, platinum, steel, palladium, and iron are among the most often traded ones. The Metal Prices API is a helpful tool for tracking changes in metal prices and creating metal price forecasts using data from historical metal price data for the preceding 13 years.
Industrial Commodity Price API: For 24 major commodities, including cobalt, polyethylene, tellurium, gallium, soda ash, zinc, aluminum, tin, lead, nickel, and palladium, this API provides industrial commodity price data. The historical accessibility for industrial price data is up to 15 years.
Livestock Price API: Finnworlds' Livestock Prices API offers current and historical livestock price data for all eight of the key livestock products including beef, salmon, lean pigs, chicken, feeder cattle, eggs and live cattle. The API includes historical cattle price data going back up to 20 years. Build projects that enable your clients to track changes in livestock market prices using the API.
Agricultural Prices API: You can use the agricultural commodity price API to display fundamental agricultural commodity prices on your applications for forecasting and other uses. The data also makes it possible to follow the evolution of prices. Displaying accurate pricing data for cocoa, tea, coffee, milk, palm oil, wool, lumber, rubber, and many other commodities will help you build large platforms on agricultural price data for the best commodity trading solutions.
Commodity Price Data - Highlights for Developers
You can simply request a specific commodity by combining the "&category=" and "&commodity_name=" parameters. Integrate the Commodity Price API into any project, using Javascript, C#, Python, Go, Ruby R, Strest, Rust, PHP, NodeJS, JQuery, Angular, Java, VueJS, Swift, and Scala.
Check out an example output via the Commodity Prices API:
https://api.finnworlds.com/api/v1/commodities
?key=API-key
&category=energy
{
"status": {
"code": 200,
"message": "OK",
"details": ""
},
"result": {
"output": [
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "brent",
"commodity_unit": "usd/bbl",
"commodity_price": "90.398",
"price_change_day": "1.222",
"percentage_day": "-1.33%",
"percentage_week": "-4.13%",
"percentage_month": "-0.29%",
"percentage_year": "6.25%",
"quarter4_22": "104.512",
"quarter1_23": "105.802",
"quarter2_23": "95.713",
"quarter3_23": "99.325",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "coal",
"commodity_unit": "usd/t",
"commodity_price": "392.15",
"price_change_day": "0.35",
"percentage_day": "-0.09%",
"percentage_week": "1.46%",
"percentage_month": "-10.68%",
"percentage_year": "63.84%",
"quarter4_22": "462.47",
"quarter1_23": "500.994",
"quarter2_23": "419.46",
"quarter3_23": "446.338",
"date": "2022:10:17"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "crude oil",
"commodity_unit": "usd/bbl",
"commodity_price": "83.585",
"price_change_day": "1.876",
"percentage_day": "-2.19%",
"percentage_week": "-6.45%",
"percentage_month": "-2.08%",
"percentage_year": "2.56%",
"quarter4_22": "98.313",
"quarter1_23": "98.617",
"quarter2_23": "90.471",
"quarter3_23": "93.342",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "ethanol",
"commodity_unit": "usd/gal",
"commodity_price": "2.415",
"price_change_day": "0.0100",
"percentage_day": "-0.41%",
"percentage_week": "-0.82%",
"percentage_month": "-1.83%",
"percentage_year": "-2.42%",
"quarter4_22": "2.743",
"quarter1_23": "2.764",
"quarter2_23": "2.553",
"quarter3_23": "2.608",
"date": "2022:10:17"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "gasoline",
"commodity_unit": "usd/gal",
"commodity_price": "2.558",
"price_change_day": "0.0351",
"percentage_day": "-1.35%",
"percentage_week": "-2.64%",
"percentage_month": "5.92%",
"percentage_year": "3.33%",
"quarter4_22": "2.956",
"quarter1_23": "3.102",
"quarter2_23": "2.696",
"quarter3_23": "2.815",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "heating oil",
"commodity_unit": "usd/gal",
"commodity_price": "4.018",
"price_change_day": "0.0672",
"percentage_day": "-1.64%",
"percentage_week": "2.22%",
"percentage_month": "23.30%",
"percentage_year": "57.46%",
"quarter4_22": "4.558",
"quarter1_23": "4.7",
"quarter2_23": "4.228",
"quarter3_23": "4.33",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "methanol",
"commodity_unit": "cny/t",
"commodity_price": "2778",
"price_change_day": "17.00",
"percentage_day": "-0.61%",
"percentage_week": "-1.80%",
"percentage_month": "1.02%",
"percentage_year": "-26.06%",
"quarter4_22": "3045.201",
"quarter1_23": "3070.945",
"quarter2_23": "2949.509",
"quarter3_23": "2968.053",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "natural gas",
"commodity_unit": "usd/mmbtu",
"commodity_price": "5.7304",
"price_change_day": "0.2686",
"percentage_day": "-4.48%",
"percentage_week": "-13.12%",
"percentage_month": "-26.57%",
"percentage_year": "12.63%",
"quarter4_22": "7.829",
"quarter1_23": "8.125",
"quarter2_23": "6.77",
"quarter3_23": "7.369",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "propane",
"commodity_unit": "usd/gal",
"commodity_price": "0.83",
"price_change_day": "0.00",
"percentage_day": "-0.14%",
"percentage_week": "-5.82%",
"percentage_month": "-19.86%",
"percentage_year": "-43.75%",
"quarter4_22": "0.904",
"quarter1_23": "0.929",
"quarter2_23": "0.851",
"quarter3_23": "0.889",
"date": "2022:10:17"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "uk gas",
"commodity_unit": "gbp/thm",
"commodity_price": "191",
"price_change_day": "41.2500",
"percentage_day": "-17.76%",
"percentage_week": "-33.26%",
"percentage_month": "-32.37%",
"percentage_year": "-15.45%",
"quarter4_22": "396.232",
"quarter1_23": "460.053",
"quarter2_23": "293.985",
"quarter3_23": "341.386",
"date": "2022:10:18"
},
{
"category": "energy",
"commodity_name": "uranium",
"commodity_unit": "usd/lbs",
"commodity_price": "51",
"price_change_day": "0.4000",
"percentage_day": "0.79%",
"percentage_week": "4.51%",
"percentage_month": "4.62%",
"percentage_year": "6.03%",
"quarter4_22": "54.748",
"quarter1_23": "55.786",
"quarter2_23": "52.207",
"quarter3_23": "52.508",
"date": "2022:10:17"
}
]
}
}
Available formats and ways to fetch data:
- JSON
- CSV
- XML
- Email links
Want to know more details? Check out our full documentation:
Get Started! Accessing The Commodity Price API
Get your API key in one minute to access the commodity prices data on our website. Your fully active key will be sent to your email automatically. In addition to the commodity price data, you will also have access to a wide range of other financial data, including analyst rankings, analyst consensus, bond rates, stock index, and more. Just a thought for developers who work in the finance industry :)
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