🪙 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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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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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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💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

• Starter plan ($49/month) — Recommended for individuals running Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data regularly. Includes higher concurrency and larger datasets.
• Scale plan ($499/month) — Recommended for teams running Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data at production scale.

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data?

Yes. Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating Your Workflow

Schedule this tool to run daily, weekly, or monthly through the Apify platform. Set it and forget it. Your data will be waiting in your dataset every time. Combine with webhooks to trigger downstream actions whenever a run completes.

🔌 Integrate with Your Favorite Apps

• Make - Build automated workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get instant notifications
• Airbyte - Sync to data warehouses
• GitHub - Version control integration
• Google Drive - Export to spreadsheets

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Metal Prices Scraper - Commodity Price Data connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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