Connect Metals-API to 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.
clariBI| Connection | API connector. You paste your Metals-API access key. |
| Access | Read-only. clariBI never writes to Metals-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 | 11 documented Metals-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 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.
Vendor site: metals-api.com
What clariBI syncs
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 once it is more than a day old. 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.
What you can chart
- 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
How to connect Metals-API
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 stored encrypted.
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 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 metal price?"
- "Did the silver run-up squeeze our product margin?"
About the Metals-API connector
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 stored encrypted, 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 plans include Metals-API?
Every plan can connect Metals-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 Metals-API catalog need the trial or a Starter, Professional or Enterprise plan.
Try Metals-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.