commodity_price

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API Ninjas live commodity price: current spot price for a traded commodity. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "gold spot price", "silver price today", "lumber price", "live cattle", "heating oil", "RBOB gasoline". Returns { exchange, name, price, updated }. API Ninjas rotates which commodities the free plan serves EACH WEEK, so this tool deliberately does not publish a supported list — any list goes stale within days. Gold is the dependable one. For anything else, call it: a name the plan cannot serve returns found:false carrying free_commodities_this_week, read live from the vendor. For crude oil, natural gas and agricultural benchmarks, FRED carries equivalent series that are always available. Accepts commodity or symbol as aliases for name. Example: commodity_price({ name: "gold" }).