Commodities Copper
by PreReason in Markets & finance
Copper through a copper futures fund. CPER's share price and the World Bank's monthly average LME copper price per metric ton, speculators' net position in COMEX copper futures (CFTC), and the dollar and gold funds beside it, each with its measured relationship to CPER. Commodity market data for research agents. A paid call serves today or any ?date= on record.
https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper- Price
- $0.03
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 507 ms
- 797 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper
Each call costs $0.03 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper?format=jsonParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
date | string | No | Historical date in YYYY-MM-DD format. A paid call serves today or any ?date= on record. |
format | string | No | Response format. markdown is token-optimized for LLMs, json is structured. Default is markdown. One of: json, markdown. |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 29 lines
{
"briefing_metadata": {
"correlations_count": 2,
"description": "Copper through a copper futures fund (CPER), speculators' net position in COMEX copper futures (CFTC), the World Bank's monthly copper price, and the dollar and gold funds beside it, each with its measured relationship to the copper fund.",
"metrics_count": 6,
"name": "Commodities Copper"
},
"briefing_used": "commodities.copper",
"metrics": {
"copper-gold-ratio": {
"name": "copper-gold-ratio"
},
"cot-copper-noncomm-net": {
"name": "cot-copper-noncomm-net"
},
"etf-cper": {
"name": "etf-cper"
},
"etf-gld": {
"name": "etf-gld"
},
"etf-uup": {
"name": "etf-uup"
},
"wb-copper-usd-mt": {
"name": "wb-copper-usd-mt"
}
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.03.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper?format=json'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper?format=json' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.03 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.03" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.03 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.prereason.com%2Fapi%2Fcommodities%2Fcopper
const res = await pay("https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper?format=json");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.03 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.03"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/copper?format=json")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
| When | Result | HTTP | Time | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 h ago | Passed | 402 | 507 ms | $0.03 |
| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 421 ms | $0.03 |
| 13 h ago | Passed | 402 | 575 ms | $0.03 |
| 17 h ago | Passed | 402 | 603 ms | $0.03 |
| 22 h ago | Passed | 402 | 462 ms | $0.03 |
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| 26 h ago | Passed | 402 | 454 ms | $0.03 |
| 30 h ago | Passed | 402 | 521 ms | $0.03 |
| 34 h ago | Passed | 402 | 583 ms | $0.03 |
| 38 h ago | Passed | 402 | 661 ms | $0.03 |
| 43 h ago | Passed | 402 | 484 ms | $0.03 |
| 47 h ago | Passed | 402 | 604 ms | $0.03 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 457 ms | $0.03 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 419 ms | $0.03 |
| 2 days ago | Passed | 402 | 493 ms | $0.03 |
| 3 days ago | Passed | 402 | 513 ms | $0.03 |