🪙 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.

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

📋 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)

🚀 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

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: currency, date, metal, metalCode, price, scrapedAt, unit. All 7 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 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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