Commodities Energy Basket
by PreReason in Markets & finance
US oil and gas stocks. EIA weekly commercial crude stocks and Lower 48 gas storage against the same week in the prior five years, with the week's change, the levels that would change each label and the next EIA report dates; WTI, Brent and Henry Hub spot prices, the Brent to WTI spread and WTI 30 day realised volatility. Energy inventory data for commodity research agents. A paid call serves today or any ?date= on record.
https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/energy-basket- Price
- $0.05
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 488 ms
- 679 ms slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 3 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
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How to call it
GET https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/energy-basket
Each call costs $0.05 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/energy-basket?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, 32 lines
{
"briefing_metadata": {
"correlations_count": 1,
"description": "US oil and gas stocks against the five year norm, with what changed and what comes next: EIA weekly commercial crude stocks and Lower 48 gas storage, each placed against the same week in the prior five years; WTI, Brent and Henry Hub spot prices; the Brent to WTI spread; WTI 30 day realised volatility (computed from EIA spot prices, backward looking); the dates of the next EIA reports.",
"metrics_count": 7,
"name": "Energy Basket"
},
"briefing_used": "commodities.energy-basket",
"metrics": {
"brent-wti-spread": {
"name": "brent-wti-spread"
},
"natgas-storage-zscore": {
"name": "natgas-storage-zscore"
},
"natural-gas-price": {
"name": "natural-gas-price"
},
"oil-brent": {
"name": "oil-brent"
},
"oil-inventory-zscore": {
"name": "oil-inventory-zscore"
},
"oil-wti": {
"name": "oil-wti"
},
"oil-wti-realized-vol-30d": {
"name": "oil-wti-realized-vol-30d"
}
}
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.05.
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/energy-basket?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/energy-basket?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 $0.05 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.05" });
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 $0.05 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.prereason.com%2Fapi%2Fcommodities%2Fenergy-basket
const res = await pay("https://api.prereason.com/api/commodities/energy-basket?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 $0.05 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.05"})
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/energy-basket?format=json")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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