Copper Price API

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/prices"

Every tracked metal comes back in one response, so a dashboard showing several does not need several requests. The copper entry looks like this:

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "HG": {
      "symbol": "HG",
      "price": 4380.04,
      "change24h": 2.87,
      "changePercent24h": 0.0655,
      "high24h": 4380.25,
      "low24h": 4377.84,
      "exchange": "SPOT",
      "timestamp": "2026-09-19T18:58:27.856Z"
    }
  }
}

Spot prices are on the free tier. You need an account and a key, but not a card.

Each example fetches the live copper price and prints it. There is no SDK to install: the API is plain HTTPS returning JSON, so whatever HTTP client you already use will do.

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/prices",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY"},
    timeout=10,
)
res.raise_for_status()

price = res.json()["data"]["HG"]["price"]
print(f"Copper: ${price}")

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/prices",
  { headers: { Authorization: "Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY" } },
);

if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${res.status}`);

const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(`Copper: ${data.HG.price}`);

<?php
$ch = curl_init("https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/prices");
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ["Authorization: Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY"],
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 10,
]);

$body = curl_exec($ch);
$code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);

if ($code !== 200) {
    throw new RuntimeException("MetalCharts API returned $code");
}

$data = json_decode($body, true);
echo "Copper: " . $data["data"]["HG"]["price"];

req, _ := http.NewRequest(
    http.MethodGet, "https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/prices", nil,
)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY")

resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
    return err
}
defer resp.Body.Close()

var out struct {
    Data map[string]struct {
        Price float64 `json:"price"`
    } `json:"data"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&out); err != nil {
    return err
}
fmt.Println("Copper:", out.Data["HG"].Price)

Replace mc_live_YOUR_KEY with a key from the API console. The free tier needs an account but not a card.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer mc_live_YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://api.metalcharts.org/v1/history/HG?range=1Y&interval=1d"

9,776 daily bars are available, the oldest dated 1988-07-28. Set the window with range or explicit start and end dates, and the candle size with interval: 15m, 30m, 45m, 1h, 2h, 4h, 8h, 1d, 1w or 1M. Each point carries open, high, low, close and volume, so it drives a candlestick chart directly.

History depth is what separates the plans. Basic reaches back 1 year, Pro five, and Ultimate returns the full series.

The symbol is HG. Passing the metal's name instead returns a 400, which is the single most common mistake on first use.

Copper is the industrial bellwether, so it tends to be consumed alongside macro data rather than alongside gold. The history runs deeper than most base-metal feeds, and Shanghai inventory is available for anyone tracking Chinese demand.

Beyond price, copper also appears in:

Rate limiting is by weight per minute, not a monthly request quota. Most endpoints cost 1 weight and history costs 2. Free is capped at 1,000 weight a month; no paid plan has a monthly ceiling.