2024 Year in Review

Our mission at MetalpriceAPI has always been to streamline metal price data delivery, reducing complexity for our customers while maintaining the highest standards of reliability and accuracy.

As 2024 draws to a close, we'd like to share some key features and improvements our team has delivered throughout the year, showcasing our ongoing commitment to our customers and their success.

API Updates

Extensive Symbol Support

We added 14 new metals and now support most Indian city gold and silver prices. Our most up to date symbols we support is listed here.

/live Endpoint

• You can now access both currency prices and exchange rates through the live endpoint, giving you more flexibility in how you view and analyze the data.

{
    "success": true,
    "base": "USD",
    "timestamp": 1734795246,
    "rates": {
        "XAU": 0.0003812197
    }
}

{
    "success": true,
    "base": "USD",
    "timestamp": 1734795246,
    "rates": {
        "USDXAU": 2623.1592963323,
        "XAU": 0.0003812197
    }
}

/historical Endpoint

• Now you can simply use "yesterday" in your query to get the previous day's data—no need to manually update dates in your code. This makes your integrations more dynamic and reduces maintenance overhead.

https://api.metalpriceapi.com/v1/yesterday?api_key={{API_KEY}}&base=USD&currencies=XAU

• You can now access both currency prices and exchange rates through the historical endpoint, giving you more flexibility in how you view and analyze the data.

{
    "success": true,
    "base": "USD",
    "timestamp": 1734795246,
    "rates": {
        "XAU": 0.0003812197
    }
}

{
    "success": true,
    "base": "USD",
    "timestamp": 1734795246,
    "rates": {
        "USDXAU": 2623.1592963323,
        "XAU": 0.0003812197
    }
}

/change Endpoint

• You can now use the "date_type" parameter to easily track price changes over common time periods. Simply use "yesterday," "week," "month," or "year" instead of setting specific dates—making your integrations cleaner and more maintainable.

https://api.metalpriceapi.com/v1/change?api_key={{API_KEY}}&start_date=2021-04-22&end_date=2021-04-23&base=USD&currencies=EUR,XAU,XAG&date_type=yesterday

Ecosystem Updates

WordPress Plugin

We've added powerful new shortcode customizations to help you display metal prices exactly how you need them:

1. Value Calculations Now you can automatically apply calculations to any price—perfect for showing premiums, discounts, or custom multipliers. For example, easily display prices with a 10% premium using the {{operation}} shortcode.

   [metalpriceapi base="USD" symbol="XAU" price_round="3" operation="(value)*1.1"]

2. Timezone Support Show dates in your preferred timezone with the {{date_timezone}} shortcode, ensuring your visitors see timestamps in their local time.

   [metalpriceapicarat base="USD" purity="8k" dateformat="m-d-Y" date_timezone="America/Chicago"]

You can find more details about our Wordpress plugin here.

SDKs

We continue to update our SDKs to ensure they are in sync with our latest API features. Whether you're using dynamic dates, calculating rates, or accessing our newest parameters, you'll find everything ready to go in your preferred programming language. This means less time wrestling with implementation and more time building what matters to your business.

You can find more details about our SDKs here.

Infrastructure Updates

Server Upgrades

We continue to strengthen our infrastructure throughout 2024 to deliver the reliability your business depends on. Our servers now:

• Process 100+ million data points daily faster and with greater efficiency
• Handle millions of daily requests with improved performance
• Deliver higher uptime through enhanced redundancy
• Scales automatically to meet sudden demand spikes

Latency Improvements

Average API response times have dropped from 300ms to sub-100ms — ensuring you get the data you need with minimal latency. Using benchmarks from US based servers.

Internal Processes

Our service runs 24/7, 365 days a year, backed by a dedicated team committed to your success. Behind the scenes, we've built robust systems with real-time monitoring and alerts, while our engineering team maintains internal round-the-clock on-call internal incident response.

We regularly train and update our incident response playbooks because we understand that reliable metal price data is critical to your operations.

What’s Next?

2024 has been an incredible journey of growth and innovation at MetalpriceAPI. While we've highlighted some of our major achievements, there have been countless behind-the-scenes improvements that have helped make our service even better for you.

As we step into 2025, we're excited about what's on the horizon. We have some innovative features in development that we can't wait to share with you. And as our platform continues to grow, we'll maintain the same rock-solid reliability and performance that our users have come to expect and trust from MetalpriceAPI.

We want to take a moment to thank you – our valued users. Your trust and feedback have been instrumental in shaping MetalpriceAPI into what it is today. We're truly grateful for everyone who has chosen our API as their metal price data solution. Your continued support drives us to keep improving and innovating.

Stay tuned for some exciting announcements coming your way!

— MetalpriceAPI Team