# Investing.com API: Get commodity prices > Gets current quoted prices for energy, metals, and agricultural commodities from Investing.com's real-time futures page, optionally for one commodity. Some quotes may be delayed or indicative; units are null when the contract specification is missing. Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Investing.com. - Page: https://fous.com/methods/investing.com/get-commodity-prices - Method: `investing.com/get_commodity_prices`, version 1 - Website: investing.com - Returns: commodity, group, contract month, last price, currency, unit, change, change percent, day high/low, price time, page link - Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing) - Sign-in: none needed - Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1ยข with pay as you go); failed runs are free - Verified: Nov 2, 2026 ## Inputs | Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description | |---|---|---|---|---| | `commodity` | string | no | | Commodity name, such as Brent oil or gold. Leave blank for all major commodities on the page. Default "". | ## Output From a run on Oct 31, 2026, shortened. Its input: ```json {} ``` Its output: ```json { "commodity_prices": [ { "unit": "USD per barrel", "group": "energy", "change": 1.46, "day_low": 97.87, "currency": "USD", "day_high": 99.6, "commodity": "Brent Oil", "page_link": "https://www.investing.com/commodities/brent-oil", "last_price": 99.29, "price_time": "2026-09-29T03:00:15+00:00", "change_percent": 1.49, "contract_month": "Dec 26" }, { "unit": "USD per barrel", "group": "energy", "change": 1.22, "day_low": 93.02, "currency": "USD", "day_high": 94.01, "commodity": "Crude Oil WTI", "page_link": "https://www.investing.com/commodities/crude-oil", "last_price": 93.82, "price_time": "2026-09-29T03:00:11+00:00", "change_percent": 1.32, "contract_month": "Nov 26" }, { "unit": null, "group": "energy", "change": -1.787, "day_low": 71.65, "currency": null, "day_high": 71.775, "commodity": "Dutch TTF Natural Gas", "page_link": "https://www.investing.com/commodities/ice-dutch-ttf-gas-c1-futures", "last_price": 71.65, "price_time": "2026-09-29T02:02:14+00:00", "change_percent": -2.43, "contract_month": "Oct 26" } ] } ``` ## Run it From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output: ```bash curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"method":"investing.com/get_commodity_prices","input":{}}' ``` From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`. ## Ask your agent - What's Brent crude trading at right now, and how much has it moved today? - Pull current futures quotes for all the major energy, metals, and agricultural commodities from investing.com - Give me the latest gold futures price, including the contract month and today's high and low - How are coffee and cocoa prices doing today? I need percent change and last price. - Check investing.com for the current natural gas futures quote and the time it was last updated ## Input schema ```json { "type": "object", "properties": { "commodity": { "type": "string", "default": "", "description": "Commodity name, such as Brent oil or gold. Leave blank for all major commodities on the page." } } } ``` ## Output schema ```json { "type": "object", "required": [ "commodity_prices" ], "properties": { "commodity_prices": { "type": "array", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "commodity", "group", "contract_month", "last_price", "currency", "unit", "change", "change_percent", "day_high", "day_low", "price_time", "page_link" ], "properties": { "unit": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Price denomination per physical unit." }, "group": { "type": "string", "description": "Energy, metals, or agriculture." }, "change": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Change in the quoted price units." }, "day_low": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Lowest quoted price today." }, "currency": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Three-letter currency code for the quoted price." }, "day_high": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Highest quoted price today." }, "commodity": { "type": "string", "description": "Commodity name as displayed on the page." }, "page_link": { "type": "string", "description": "Investing.com page for this commodity." }, "last_price": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Last quoted price in the stated currency and unit." }, "price_time": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Last price update time as ISO 8601 with offset." }, "change_percent": { "type": [ "number", "null" ], "description": "Percentage change in percentage points." }, "contract_month": { "type": [ "string", "null" ], "description": "Displayed futures contract month, if shown." } }, "additionalProperties": false }, "description": "Commodity prices grouped by category." } }, "additionalProperties": false } ``` ## See more - [Investing.com API: Get government bond yields](https://fous.com/methods/investing.com/get-bond-yields.md): Gets current government bond yields from Investing.com's world government bonds table, optionally filtered by country and maturity term. - [Investing.com API: Get economic calendar](https://fous.com/methods/investing.com/get-economic-calendar.md): Lists scheduled and recent economic releases from the Investing.com economic calendar for a date range (up to 31 days, default this week), countries and importance, with actual, forecast and previous values as displayed, in the requested time zone. - [Trading Economics API: Get commodity prices](https://fous.com/methods/tradingeconomics.com/get-commodity-prices.md): Gets current commodity prices and price movements from the Trading Economics commodities page, in the page's group order; filter by a commodity name, slug, symbol or group (e.g. copper, energy), or leave blank for all groups including Electricity. - [Macrotrends API: Get long-term price history](https://fous.com/methods/macrotrends.net/get-long-term-price-history.md): Gets decades of yearly commodity or stock-index price history from Macrotrends: yearly average, open, high, low, close, annual change and inflation-adjusted value for gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, copper, Dow Jones, S&P 500 and Nasdaq. 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