Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

You need daily closing Kyrgyzstani som (KGS) rates you can pipe into charts, P&L, or pricing logic—and you want them programmatically, with clean inversion to USD/KGS when needed. By the end of this guide you’ll be able to pull historical and time-series close data for KGS from Metals-API, normalize and invert it to the quote you require, and handle practical pitfalls like base currency, timestamps, and non-trading days. What “daily close” for KGS means in this workflow Metals-API returns end-of-day snapshots keyed by a UTC date and a UNIX timestamp. For KGS (a fiat currency), the core field is the exchange rate quoted relative to the base currency. By default, the base is USD, so: r...