The scrap metal industry moves billions of dollars every year, but pricing data is still stuck in PDFs, trade publications, and behind expensive paywalls. We built ScrapMetal API to change that.
If you're building software for the recycling industry — a yard management tool, a procurement platform, a trading algorithm, or an estimating app — you need scrap metal prices. But getting them programmatically is painful. Existing metal APIs cover gold, silver, and exchange-traded base metals. None of them cover the actual scrap grades that the industry trades: Bare Bright copper, HMS 1 steel, Yellow Brass, Aluminum UBC cans. That data is scattered across government databases, exchange delayed quotes, and biweekly PDF reports.
ScrapMetal API aggregates pricing data from multiple public sources, normalizes it into a clean JSON format, and serves it via a simple REST API. One API key, one endpoint, all the scrap metal pricing data you need. We cover 4 metal categories and 14 scrap grades with ISRI specification codes, updated daily.
We aggregate from trusted, publicly available sources:
Producer Price Index series for iron, steel, and ferrous scrap. Public domain, updated monthly.
Delayed settlement prices for Busheling Steel Scrap, Copper, and Aluminum futures.
Delayed end-of-day prices for base metals including copper, aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel, and tin.
Biweekly benchmark prices for HMS and shredded steel scrap.
Scrapyard software developers
Embed live pricing in yard management and POS systems
Manufacturing procurement teams
Track material costs for budgeting and estimating
Commodity traders & analysts
Build models with grade-level scrap pricing data
Construction tech companies
Factor steel and copper scrap prices into project estimates
Sustainability & ESG platforms
Report on recycled material market values
Academic researchers
Access historical commodity pricing for analysis
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