Monitoring niche commodity markets

Build a live gold price widget, a silver price tracker, an oil price monitor, or a dashboard covering any commodity that standard finance tickers miss. 7di tracks any market you can describe in plain English, sends alerts when prices cross thresholds, and embeds on any website. No API subscriptions, no code.

Why standard tickers miss niche markets

Most finance widgets cover stocks, major crypto, and a handful of forex pairs. If you track gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, lumber, natural gas, rare earth metals, or agricultural futures, you are usually stuck with expensive data subscriptions or checking websites manually. The Live lookup (AI) widget fills this gap: describe the price you want, and it fetches the current value from the web on a schedule.

Tracking commodity prices

For the most common commodities, use the dedicated Commodity price widget. It tracks gold, silver, copper, WTI crude, Brent crude, natural gas, and wheat at hourly intervals with no API keys or credit overhead beyond the standard check cost. It supports text, chart, and bar display modes and can be embedded on any website.

For niche or unlisted commodities, add a Live lookup widget and describe the price in plain English. The widget calls the web on each check and returns the current value. Example prompts:

• "Current gold spot price per troy ounce in USD"
• "Current silver price per ounce in USD"
• "WTI crude oil price per barrel right now"
• "Rhodium spot price today in USD"
• "Natural gas Henry Hub price per MMBtu"
• "Platinum spot price per ounce in USD"
• "Lumber futures price per thousand board feet"
• "Palladium price per troy ounce"

Each question becomes a separate widget on your dashboard. Set the interval to 1 hour for commodities that do not tick by the minute. The value can be displayed as a plain number or charted over time to show how the price moved across the day or week.

Setting price alerts

The Smart alert widget evaluates a condition on each check and sends a browser push notification when it becomes true. Describe the threshold in plain English:

• "Gold is above $2,500 per ounce"
• "Oil is below $70 per barrel"
• "Silver has moved more than 5% in either direction today"
• "Platinum is within 10% of the gold price"
• "Natural gas is above $3.50 per MMBtu"

Enable Search online in the alert config so it pulls current prices. Set a notification cooldown (1h or 3h works well for commodities) so you are not alerted every check while a condition stays true. See Notifications for setup.

Tokenized commodity prices

For gold and silver, tokenized equivalents trade on-chain and have real-time prices available through the Crypto price widget:

• PAXG -- Paxos Gold, 1 token = 1 troy oz of gold
• XAUT -- Tether Gold, also backed by physical gold

These update every few minutes and cost 0.02 credits per check, compared to 2 credits for an AI lookup. Use them when you want a near-real-time gold price widget without the credit overhead. The Crypto price widget supports candlestick, chart, and value display modes.

Aviation tracking

The Flight Tracker widget tracks any airplane by its ICAO callsign (e.g. AFR064) or tail number. It polls the OpenSky Network and displays the current position on a full-screen map, along with altitude and ground speed. Useful for monitoring a specific aircraft, a charter flight, or a private jet. Coverage is best over Europe and North America where ADS-B receiver density is high.

Prediction markets

For tracking activity on Polymarket, 7di has two dedicated widgets. The Polymarket Trades widget shows a live feed of bets as they happen on any market -- useful for spotting whale trades or watching sentiment shift before an event. The Polymarket Order Book widget displays live bids and asks so you can see current liquidity, spread, and where limit orders are clustered.

Using a paid data provider

If you already have a subscription to a commodity data API (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, Quandl, Metals-API, or any provider), use the Webhook widget. Your script POSTs the price to the widget endpoint and the dashboard updates instantly:

POST https://7di.vision/api/ping/{push_id}
Content-Type: application/json

{ "value": "2487.30" }

The endpoint URL is generated automatically when you add the widget. Call it from a cron job, a server-side script, or any scheduler. The value displays live and is charted over time.

Weekly digest

The AI Digest widget reads all your dashboard widgets and writes a plain-language summary on a schedule. For a commodity dashboard, set it to run weekly with a prompt like:

"Summarize how gold, silver, crude oil, and platinum moved this week. Note any macro drivers or unusual moves."

The digest sees your current widget values and their history, so it can compare this week to last week without you writing any logic.

Sharing a commodity dashboard

Any 7di page can be made public with a shareable link via the Sharing feature. Useful for research blogs, commodity newsletters, or community Discords where members want to see live prices without logging in. Individual widgets can also be embedded on any website with a single iframe, so a gold price widget or silver price tracker can live inline on your own site.

Credit usage

AI widgets cost more per check because they call the Claude API on every run. Use longer intervals for commodities that update infrequently.

See Credits for plan details and how to buy additional credits.