Gold is the international currency par excellence, since the beginning of monetization, precious metals, not only gold, served to exchange for different products. Now the exchange rate of the other varies country by country, so it is important to be aware of all of his fluctuations in the market.
All precious metals exchange APIs have information about gold and its exchange in dollars, but only one has exchange rates like the Bangladeshi taka for both gold, silver, platinum or palladium: Metals-API.
With Metals-API.com you can get live real-time gold, silver, platinum and any precious metal data that you can think of via API at an accuracy of 2 decimal points and a frequency as high as every 60 seconds.
Metals-API’s spot prices are sourced from a very wide base of trade sources and banks around the world, each of them varying types and frequencies. The bigger weighting especially for major currencies and metals are towards commercial sources as they more accurately reflect the exchange occurring within the markets.
Benefits
This API lets you access institutional quality real-time precious metal prices through an easy-to-use interface, its also 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, and most the most important of all the benefits: it eliminates the pains and complexity of legacy feeds by using cloud APIs.
Unique Features
- API for real-time, delayed, historical, and tick-by-tick periodicity
- Real-time precious metals prices API for gold, silver, palladium, platinum, rhodium and ruthenium
- 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, platinum, rhodium and ruthenium
Metals-API Drupal module comes up with comprehensive controls to display desired date metal rates as well as 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, at least, 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.
Metals-API 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.
Also published on Medium.