In the foreign metal market and the world of international rates, currencies play the crucial role of acting as the medium of exchange in the transactions that take place.
Currencies like the United States dollar, the Pound Sterling, or the Swiss franc are commonly used around the world in order to get a metal rate. Some companies that offer precious metal live and historical rates have exposed their APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to allow developers to integrate current and historical metal rates, currency conversion, or other capabilities into their applications.
In order to know about precious metals live and historical rates, there’s a lot of APIs available online, and if you want to try one, Bloomberg is going to be one of your first options. But if you take a look at what else is in the market, you’ll find alternatives so many great alternatives:
Metals-API
Metals-API is a simple and lightweight API for current and historical precious metals rates. This API offers real-time prices and quotes in 170+ currencies for precious metals including Gold, Silver, Palladium, Platinum, and other base metals.
With Metals-API.com you can get live real-time precious metals data via API at an accuracy of 2 decimal points and a frequency as high as every 60 seconds.
Key Features
- API for real-time, delayed, historical, and tick-by-tick periodicity
- Real-time precious metals prices API for gold, silver, palladium, and platinum
- Real-time metals price API for base metals and platinum group metals
- Intraday and historical charts AP
- Historical spot and future prices for gold, silver, palladium, and platinum
Key Benefits
- Use a trusted gold price and silver price API used by hundreds of firms in the industry
- Access institutional quality real-time precious metal prices through an easy-to-use API
- Easily embed real-time gold prices and other metals in your applications — including spreadsheets, websites, mobile apps, and other corporate applications
- Dramatically reduce time to market for apps that need precious metal prices
- Eliminate the pains and complexity of legacy feeds by using cloud APIs
Metals-API.com is used by thousands of developers, SMBs, and large corporations every day. Rock-solid data sources and 6+ years of experience make Metals-API the #1 resource for real-time precious metals rates. You can sign up here.
Metals API Drupal Module and WordPress Plugin
Metals-API Drupal module comes up with comprehensive controls to display desired date metal rates as well as the latest. If you only want a daily snapshot of precious metal prices, this free license is all you need. The drupal module can refresh the rate once a day (every 24 hours) and it will fall within the 50 requests per month that the free license allows. Additional refreshes per day will require a paid license which can be had relatively cheaply. You can also try Metals-API WordPress Plugin which consumes, caches, and produces blocks to display precious metal prices.
Gold Feed
Their gold, silver, platinum and palladium API feed is aligned with the World spot price of gold. They take pricing from different sources that make their prices available to clients and use an algorithm to produce a price that is one of the most accurate in the market. The most trusted bullion dealers Worldwide use their pricing to power their stores and apps.
Their service is robust and always on. If you are looking for a live pricing solution for your app, website or just for investment purposes you can be assured that choosing Gold-Feed your provider is the right solution. With over 10 years experience as a market dealer in the industry they found that the existing solutions out there are either very expensive or unreliable. With Gold-Feed you can be assured of 365 service and support. If you need help integrating they can help you with that as well. Their fees are very reasonable and you receive access to the feed instantly after payment.
Gold-feed offers much more in their feed than the competition does. You get bid, ask, high, low, price change, percent change all for one low fee. Feed are offered in all popular currencies. From the Indian Rupee to the US Dollar. In addition they also provide a forex feed.
Barchart Cmdty
This API is used to request price data, real-time, delayed or end-of-day. In addition to Last Price or Settlement, other fields such as Open, High, Low, Bid, Ask, 52-week high and low, and more are available. They also provide historical time series data on Futures, Indexes, ETFs, or Commodity related securities or forex pairs. Historical data is available as tick, minute or end-of-day data.
The getTechnicals API provides technical data and statistics for Futures, Indexes, ETFs, or Commodity related securities or forex pairs. Fields include moving averages, percent changes over different time periods and stochastics.
Receive all real-time or delayed, or end-of-day Futures data by exchange through a single onDemand query.
The Definition API is also available to request metadata on instruments by symbol, exchange, or exchange MIC. Metadata includes instrument names, exchange codes, tick increments, base codes, expiration dates and more.
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