🪙 Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data

🚀 Collect current and historical metal commodity prices for 23 metals including gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium, and more. Support for 65+ currencies and multiple weight units. Historical data back to 2000.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23

Commodity traders tracking price movements, analysts building pricing models, and researchers studying metal market trends need reliable price data. This tool extracts prices for 23 metals in 65+ currencies from a comprehensive pricing source.

The Metal Prices Scraper provides two modes: historical prices for a single metal over time, or current prices for all 23 metals today. Each record includes the metal name, code, price, unit, date, and currency. Choose from pounds, troy ounces, grams, kilograms, or metric tons.

Target Audience	Commodity traders, supply chain managers, financial analysts, procurement teams, researchers, price tracking services
Primary Use Cases	Price monitoring, cost forecasting, arbitrage analysis, procurement planning, market research, portfolio tracking

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📋 What Does It Do

• Tracks precious metal spot prices (gold, silver, platinum, palladium) across currencies and units
• Monitors base metal prices (copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, lead, tin) for manufacturing cost analysis
• Collects platinum group metal prices (rhodium, ruthenium, iridium)
• Gets rare metal pricing data (lithium, cobalt, gallium, indium, neodymium)
• Accesses price history going back to approximately 2000 for most metals
• Converts prices to any of 65+ currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY, and more)
• Supports multiple weight units (pounds, troy ounces, grams, kilograms, metric tons)

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🎬 How to Use - Full Demo

🚧 Demo video coming soon.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description	Default
Mode	string	Historical Prices (single metal) or Current Prices (all metals today)	history
Max Items	integer	Free users: limited to 10 items. Paid users: up to 1,000,000	10
Metal	string	Select from 23 metals (Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, etc.)	au
Currency	string	Currency code for prices (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, etc.). 65+ supported	USD
Unit	string	Price unit: pound, troy ounce, ounce, gram, kilogram, or metric ton	oz
Period (days)	integer	Days of historical data (5-10000). Use 0 for all available history	30

Example 1:

{
    "mode": "history",
    "metalCode": "au",
    "currency": "USD",
    "unit": "oz",
    "period": 30,
    "maxItems": 10
}

Example 2:

{
    "mode": "currentAll",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "maxItems": 23
}

⚠️ Metal prices are typically delayed by one business day. Historical data availability varies by metal. Use period 0 to get all available history.

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema: metalName, metalCode, price, unit, date, currency, scrapedAt

📦 Sample 1:

{
    "metalName": "Gold",
    "metalCode": "au",
    "price": 2345.67,
    "unit": "oz",
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "USD",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 2:

{
    "metalName": "Silver",
    "metalCode": "ag",
    "price": 28.45,
    "unit": "oz",
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "USD",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

📦 Sample 3:

{
    "metalName": "Copper",
    "metalCode": "cu",
    "price": 4.12,
    "unit": "lb",
    "date": "2026-04-09",
    "currency": "USD",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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✨ Why Choose This Tool?

Feature	Details
23 metals covered	Precious, base, platinum group, and rare metals in one tool
65+ currencies	USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, CNY, AUD, CAD, CHF, INR, BRL, and many more
Historical data since 2000	Build long-term price series for trend analysis
Multiple weight units	Pounds, troy ounces, grams, kilograms, and metric tons
Two modes	Historical prices for one metal or current prices for all 23
Fast API extraction	No browser needed for fast and reliable results
Automatic retry logic	Exponential backoff for reliable data collection

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📈 How It Compares

Capability	This Tool	Other Solutions
Metals covered	23 metals in one tool	Usually precious metals only
Currency options	65+ currencies	USD only or limited selection
Historical depth	Data back to 2000	30-90 days typical
Unit flexibility	6 weight unit options	One unit only
Export formats	JSON, CSV, Excel	Not supported
Automation	Daily scheduled runs	Manual lookup required

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🚀 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes)
2. Find the Tool - Search for "Metal Prices Scraper" in the Apify Store
3. Set Input - Configure your search filters using the simple form
4. Run It - Click "Start" and let it collect your data
5. Download Data - Get your results in the "Dataset" tab as CSV, Excel, or JSON

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💼 Business Use Cases

Audience	How They Use It
Commodity Traders	Track daily gold, silver, and platinum prices across currencies to identify arbitrage opportunities and time entries
Supply Chain Managers	Monitor copper, aluminum, and steel prices weekly to forecast raw material costs and adjust procurement
Financial Analysts	Collect historical price data for precious and base metals to build regression models and market outlooks
Procurement Teams	Track metal prices over time to negotiate better contracts and plan material purchases strategically

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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