Metals-API Blog: Comprehensive Precious Metals Pricing API

Building a pricing workflow for Pakistan Gold 22k that updates in real time and shows values in multiple currencies is a classic integration challenge for trading tools, jewelry e-commerce, and ERP systems. With Metals-API, you can compute accurate 22 karat gold valuations from the benchmark Gold (XAU) price and stream them into dashboards, catalogs, and risk models. This guide shows how to source the base XAU price, calculate 22k (91.67% purity) in PKR and other currencies, handle intraday and historical views, and operationalize the pipeline end to end — including data units, timestamps, carat handling, caching, and market-closure edge cases. You’ll also see how to expand beyond spot to OH...