commodity_price
Pack: api-ninjas · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/api_ninjas/mcp
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” }).
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
name | string | no | Commodity name, e.g. ‘gold’. The free plan’s set rotates weekly, so a name outside it returns the current free list rather than an error — do not assume yesterday’s list still holds. |
commodity | string | no | Alias for name. |
symbol | string | no | Alias for name. |
Example call
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/api_ninjas/mcp \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"commodity_price","arguments":{}}}'Connect
Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:
{
"mcpServers": {
"api-ninjas": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/api_ninjas/mcp"
}
}
}See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.