Metals-API + clariBI
Connect Metals-API with your access key, choose the metals to track, and get daily gold, silver and base-metal prices sitting next to the input costs and margins they move with.
Native Metals-API data-source connector.
Paste your Metals-API access key, pick the metal symbols to track, and clariBI syncs their daily price history into preprocessed datasets and auto-generated dashboards, right next to your other tools.
What is Metals-API?
Metals-API is a metal-pricing API that publishes daily rates for precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum and palladium, plus base metals like copper, aluminium and zinc.
clariBI reads Metals-API through its REST API using your own access key: the daily price history for each metal symbol you choose, against a base currency you set. Access is read-only, and clariBI never changes anything in your account.
Learn more at metals-api.com
Connect Metals-API in three steps
Open Data Sources in clariBI
In clariBI, go to Data Sources → Add Data Source, find Metals-API, and paste your access key. The key is Fernet-encrypted at rest.
Choose metals and history
Type the metal symbols to track (for example XAU for gold, XAG for silver), 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 gold price track our input costs?" and the AI engine queries the synced prices alongside your spend.
What you can analyze
Out of the box with the Metals-API connector:
- Daily spot price per metal (gold, silver, platinum, and more) over your window
- Gold-to-silver ratio and relative moves across the metals you track
- Volatility in precious and industrial metal prices
- Period-over-period change in a metal price
- Metal price moves lined up with your procurement dates
- Cross-source: metal prices → input costs → margin
Metals-API is one of many data sources you can connect to clariBI. See the full list →
What gets synced
clariBI pulls the daily price history of the metals you select through the Metals-API timeseries endpoint, lands it as a preprocessed dataset, and refreshes it on your schedule. Access is read-only.
For each selected metal, 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 Metals-API account.
Cross-source questions Metals-API makes possible
Metals-API data is most useful next to your other tools. clariBI's planner composes it with your CRM, billing, and product data through the same entity-join primitives that back every cross-source analysis.
Metals-API × Costs
"How much of our cost rise was the metal price?"
Planner: read the daily metal price from Metals-API, align it to your material costs by date, and split the change into price versus volume.
Metals-API × Margin
"Did the silver run-up squeeze our product margin?"
Planner: read the silver price from Metals-API, join it to product margin by month, and flag the periods that moved together.
Metals-API connector FAQ
What do I need to connect Metals-API?
A Metals-API access key from your Metals-API account. You paste it into clariBI once; it is Fernet-encrypted at rest, and there is no OAuth popup or app to register.
Can clariBI change anything in Metals-API?
No. The connector only reads the daily price history for the metal symbols you select. It never changes anything in your account.
Which clariBI plan includes the Metals-API connector?
Data-source connectors are available on the Trial, Starter, Professional, and Enterprise plans. You can connect Metals-API during the free 14-day trial.
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