Connect Commodities-API to clariBI
Connect Commodities-API with your access key, choose the commodities to track, and get daily grain, energy and soft-commodity prices sitting next to the input costs and margins they move with.
clariBI| Connection | API connector. You paste your Commodities-API access key. |
| Access | Read-only. clariBI never writes to Commodities-API. |
| Sync | When the data is more than a day old, clariBI syncs it again before a question, dashboard refresh or report uses it. You can also press Sync now. |
| More endpoints | 6 documented Commodities-API endpoints you can add, up to 30 per source (trial, Starter and above) |
| Plans | Every plan, including Free. Asking questions in plain English needs the trial or Starter and above. |
About Commodities-API
Commodities-API is a commodity-pricing API that publishes daily rates for agricultural, energy and soft commodities such as wheat, corn, Brent crude oil and sugar.
clariBI reads Commodities-API through its REST API using your own access key: the daily price history for each commodity symbol you choose, against a base currency you set. Access is read-only, and clariBI never changes anything in your account.
Vendor site: commodities-api.com
What clariBI syncs
clariBI pulls the daily price history of the commodities you select through the Commodities-API timeseries endpoint, lands it as a preprocessed dataset, and refreshes it once it is more than a day old. Access is read-only.
For each selected commodity, clariBI syncs the daily rate against your base currency, then builds an insights dashboard you can query, extend, or pull into reports.
clariBI only ever reads. It never changes anything in your Commodities-API account.
What you can chart
- Daily price per commodity (Brent, WTI, wheat, sugar, and more) over your window
- Energy versus agricultural price divergence across the commodities you track
- Volatility in energy and agricultural commodity prices
- Period-over-period change in a commodity price
- Commodity price moves lined up with your purchase dates
How to connect Commodities-API
Open Data Sources in clariBI
In clariBI, go to Data Sources > Add Data Source, find Commodities-API, and paste your access key. The key is stored encrypted.
Choose commodities and history
Type the commodity symbols to track (for example WHEAT, CORN, BRENTOIL), set the base currency, and choose how much history to pull. clariBI reads the prices read-only.
Sync, then get dashboards
clariBI syncs the daily prices, preprocesses them, and builds an insights dashboard. Ask "How did the wheat price track our input costs?" and clariBI reads the synced prices alongside your spend.
Questions you can ask
Asking in plain English uses AI credits, so it needs the trial or a Starter, Professional or Enterprise plan. Totals and trends are computed from the synced rows; the AI plans the question, picks the chart and writes the explanation.
- "How much of our cost rise was the wheat price?"
- "Did the oil-price spike squeeze our freight margin?"
About the Commodities-API connector
What do I need to connect Commodities-API?
A Commodities-API access key from your Commodities-API account. You paste it into clariBI once; it is stored encrypted, and there is no OAuth popup or app to register.
Can clariBI change anything in Commodities-API?
No. The connector only reads the daily price history for the commodity symbols you select. It never changes anything in your account.
Which clariBI plans include Commodities-API?
Every plan can connect Commodities-API, within its data source limit: 3 on Free, 5 on Lite, 10 on Starter, 50 on Professional and 100 on Enterprise. Each source gets an automatic dashboard on every plan. Asking questions in plain English, AI reports and adding endpoints from the Commodities-API catalog need the trial or a Starter, Professional or Enterprise plan.
Try Commodities-API in clariBI
The trial lasts 14 days, includes 50 AI credits and needs no card. When it ends, your account moves to the Free plan and keeps its data and dashboards.