Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

If your trading dashboard, procurement app, or ERP needs real-time Aluminum China Spot (ALU-CH) per metric ton prices, you can wire it up in minutes with Metals-API using Node.js and axios. This guide shows exactly how to request the ALU-CH spot price, convert and normalize units, store time series for analytics, and integrate safely at scale. We’ll focus on practical implementation—how to fetch latest and historical ALU-CH values, interpret the JSON response, convert between units like tons and kilograms, and handle realities like timestamps, base currencies, market closures, and caching. You’ll leave with working curl and Node.js examples, a robust data handling checklist, and performance/...