Metals Api

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Metals-API — real-time and historical spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, and other precious/base metals.

2tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

get_latest

Get the latest precious and base metal spot prices (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, etc.). Prices are per troy ounce. Optionally specify base currency and metal symbols.

No parameters required.

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get_historical

Get metal prices for a specific historical date. Returns spot prices per troy ounce for that day. Useful for tracking price changes or computing returns.

No parameters required.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/metals-api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/metals-api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_latest","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("get_latest", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("metals-api — real-time and historical spot prices for gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, and other precious/base metals");