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title: "Marketstack / Commodity Price History"
description: "Marketstack tool marketstack-commoditieshistory on looot: input fields, $0.000899 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python."
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If you are looking for past commodity prices, you can use the Historical Commodity Prices endpoint, where you can choose specific dates and search by individual commodities. Additionally, the API offers options for daily data from the previous five years or monthly intervals using the `frequency` parameter. * * **Note:** * * * A rate limit of 1 API call per minute is enforced on this endpoint. * * * The recommended historical date range for a single API call is 1 year when requesting daily data. While larger ranges (up to 1.5 years) may work, retrieving data one year at a time ensures consistency. * * * Historical data for Commodities is available for up to 15 years in the past, though coverage varies by commodity type like **Metals:** Typically over 13 years of historical data, with some having as few as 2 years. **Energy:** Generally 15 years of coverage, though a few have up to 10 years. **Industrial:** Usually 15 years, with some limited to 10 years. **Livestock and Agricultural:** Coverage ranges from 9 to 15 years.

- **Tool id:** `marketstack-commoditieshistory`
- **Provider:** [Marketstack](/providers/marketstack)
- **Job:** [Get commoditieshistory](/reference/jobs/commoditieshistory-get) (`commoditieshistory.get`)
- **Price:** $0.000899 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `commodity_name` | string | yes |   |
| `date_from` | string | no |   |
| `date_to` | string | no |   |
| `frequency` | string | no |   |

## Output

The run's `result` holds the provider's answer. Signed in, `looot inspect marketstack-commoditieshistory` prints its fields.

## Run it

Every call needs your API token in `LOOOT_TOKEN`; [Sign in](/get-started/sign-in#use-the-token-in-scripts-and-agents) shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With `wait: 30` the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll `GET /v1/runs/<runId>`.

Example input with placeholder values:

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```bash curl
curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"marketstack-commoditieshistory","input":{"commodity_name":"<commodity_name>"},"wait":30}'
```

```js JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "marketstack-commoditieshistory",
    input: {
      commodity_name: "<commodity_name>",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);
```

```python Python
import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "marketstack-commoditieshistory",
        "input": {
            "commodity_name": "<commodity_name>",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))
```

</CodeGroup>

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send `job:commoditieshistory.get` as `endpointId`; see [the job page](/reference/jobs/commoditieshistory-get).