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Gold

Gold spot reference price (per troy ounce); ?series=true for the daily history back to 2000.

CategoryCommodities
ProductMetals
MetricGold
Unitusd_per_oz
Cadencenear-real-time (~10 min)
Shapeobject
Minimum planfree
Venuesmarket_ref
Entitiesn/a
Entity paramnot required
EndpointGET /v1/data/commodities/metals/gold

What you get back

Every response is one envelope: { data, meta, provenance }. data is the value, meta carries a live confidence score and a stalenessfigure, and provenance names the contributing venues and the method — so you can audit freshness and lineage without a second call.

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