# Shanghai Gold Exchange Prices: Gold Benchmark & SGE Quotes (`sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices`) Actor

Official Shanghai Gold Exchange (SGE) data, no login: the Shanghai Gold and Silver benchmark prices (AM and PM fixings since 2016 and 2019) and daily quotes for every SGE contract (Au99.99, Au(T+D), Ag(T+D), Pt and more) with open, high, low, close, volume and open interest.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices.md
- **Developed by:** [SinoData](https://apify.com/sinodata) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.45 / 1,000 price records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Shanghai Gold Exchange Prices: Gold Benchmark & SGE Quotes

Get **official Shanghai Gold Exchange (上海黄金交易所, SGE) prices** as clean JSON, straight from sge.com.cn. China is the world's largest gold consumer, and the SGE is where its physical gold is priced. No login, no Chinese needed.

- **Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price (上海金基准价)**: the yuan gold fixing, AM and PM, every trading day **since April 2016**, in CNY per gram
- **Shanghai Silver Benchmark Price (上海银基准价)**: AM and PM, every trading day **since October 2019**, in CNY per kg
- **Daily quotes for every SGE contract**: Au99.99, Au99.95, Au100g, Au(T+D), mAu(T+D), iAu99.99 (international board), Ag(T+D), Ag99.99, Pt99.95 and more, with open, high, low, close, change, weighted average price, volume, turnover, open interest and the deferred-delivery direction
- **Latest day or any date range**, with optional contract filters

### Use cases

- **Gold traders and analysts**: track the Shanghai premium by comparing the Shanghai Gold benchmark with London or COMEX prices.
- **Jewellery, refining and manufacturing**: CNY gold and silver costs for pricing and hedging.
- **Research and dashboards**: Chinese gold demand signals from volumes, open interest and the Au(T+D) delivery direction.
- **Scheduled feeds**: run daily after 15:30 China time with **Only new days** on and get just the new fixings and quotes.

### Example input

Latest day for everything:

```json
{}
```

Au(T+D) and Au99.99 quotes plus the gold benchmark since 2025:

```json
{
  "series": ["goldBenchmark", "dailyQuotes"],
  "contracts": ["Au(T+D)", "Au99.99"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01"
}
```

### Output

A benchmark fixing:

```json
{
  "type": "benchmark",
  "metal": "gold",
  "benchmark": "Shanghai Gold Benchmark Price (上海金基准价)",
  "date": "2026-10-09",
  "am": 900.79,
  "pm": 905.68,
  "unit": "CNY/gram"
}
```

A daily quote:

```json
{
  "type": "dailyQuote",
  "date": "2026-10-09",
  "contract": "Au(T+D)",
  "open": 891.6,
  "high": 908.44,
  "low": 887.17,
  "close": 904.2,
  "change": 12.21,
  "changePct": 1.37,
  "weightedAverage": 897.95,
  "volumeKg": 31268,
  "turnoverCny": 28077211480,
  "openInterestLots": 247252,
  "deliveryDirectionCn": "多支付给空",
  "deliveryDirection": "longs pay shorts",
  "deliveryLots": 14934,
  "unit": "CNY/gram"
}
```

- Gold and platinum are quoted in CNY per gram, silver in CNY per kg; `volumeKg` is in kilograms and counted on both sides, as the exchange publishes it.
- A trading day includes the previous evening's night session (20:00 to 02:30) and the day session (9:00 to 15:30).
- `deliveryDirection` shows who pays the deferred-delivery fee on T+D contracts, a widely watched sign of physical demand.
- Contracts that did not trade on a day are left out.

### Pricing

**$0.0005 per record.** The latest day for everything (about 15 records) costs under $0.01; ten years of daily gold benchmark fixings (about 2,500 records) about $1.25.

### Notes and limits

- Long quote histories are fetched one month at a time, about 1 to 2 minutes per year of all contracts.
- Official figures as published. The benchmark names belong to the Shanghai Gold Exchange; this Actor only collects the publicly displayed values and does not license the benchmarks for use in financial products.
- Only public data is collected.

### Related

- [China CNY Fixing, Shibor & LPR Rates](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-cny-rates): convert CNY prices with the official fixing.
- [China Fuel Prices by Province](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-fuel-prices) and [China Shipping & Freight Indexes](https://apify.com/sinodata/china-shipping-indexes).

### Feedback

Need USD per ounce conversion or another SGE series? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `series` (type: `array`):

The Shanghai Gold benchmark (CNY per gram), the Shanghai Silver benchmark (CNY per kg) and/or daily quotes for SGE contracts.

## `contracts` (type: `array`):

Daily quotes only for these contracts, e.g. Au99.99, Au(T+D), mAu(T+D), Ag(T+D), Pt99.95. Leave empty for all.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Get every day since this date (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for the latest day only.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

End of the history range (YYYY-MM-DD). Leave empty for up to today.

## `skipUnchanged` (type: `boolean`):

For scheduled runs: skip (and don't pay for) days you already saved in a previous run.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Not needed for normal use.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "series": [
    "goldBenchmark",
    "silverBenchmark",
    "dailyQuotes"
  ],
  "skipUnchanged": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,sinodata/shanghai-gold-prices"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ipZcF4w7qfzQNxXVV/builds/F3LYefHfNomhJFngL/openapi.json