gc.mysteel.com APIgc.mysteel.com ↗
Access steel market prices, news headlines, and price index trend data from gc.mysteel.com via 3 structured API endpoints covering rebar, wire rod, HRC, and more.
No input parameters required.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/b30709fd-7d75-4b42-9c3e-0c14b3a331ed/get_market_prices' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Extracts steel market prices from the homepage tables. Includes 'Today's Prices' ticker and various product category tables (Rebar, Wire Rod, Hot-rolled, Cold-rolled, etc.). Returns product name, price, price change, city, date, and optional specification/material fields.
No input parameters required.
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"prices": "array of price objects with product, price, change, city, date, and optional source/specification/material fields"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"prices": [
{
"city": "螺纹钢（北京-河钢）",
"date": "Today",
"price": "3360",
"change": "-10",
"source": "Ticker",
"product": "螺纹钢"
},
{
"city": "热轧板卷（全国均价）",
"date": "Today",
"price": "3484",
"change": "-4",
"source": "Ticker",
"product": "热轧板卷"
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the gc.mysteel.com API
The gc.mysteel.com API exposes 3 endpoints covering Chinese steel market data: spot prices across product categories (rebar, wire rod, hot-rolled, cold-rolled), latest industry news headlines, and daily price index trend series going back approximately one year. The get_market_prices endpoint returns product name, price, price change, city, date, and optional specification and material fields from the homepage pricing tables.
Market Price Data
The get_market_prices endpoint pulls structured price records from the homepage tables, including the "Today's Prices" ticker. Each object in the prices array contains product, price, change, city, date, and optionally source, specification, and material fields. Product categories covered include Rebar, Wire Rod, Hot-rolled Coil, and Cold-rolled Coil, giving a cross-section of long and flat steel products traded in mainland China.
News Headlines
The get_news_list endpoint returns the latest steel industry news items from the homepage news section. Each object in the news array includes title, url, and date. This is useful for monitoring market sentiment, policy announcements, and supply-demand signals without scraping article body text.
Price Index Trends
The get_price_index_trend endpoint accepts a comma-separated index_codes parameter — defaulting to ID00187733, the general steel price index (普钢) — and returns daily date/value pairs spanning roughly 12 months. The response includes a total_dates integer so you can quickly gauge series length. Multiple index codes can be queried in one call, with each returning its own data_points array nested under its index_code key in the trends array.
- Track daily rebar and wire rod spot price changes by city to benchmark procurement costs.
- Monitor price index trend for the general steel index (ID00187733) to identify market turning points.
- Aggregate multi-product price moves to build a simple flat vs. long steel spread indicator.
- Feed steel news headlines into an industry alert system filtered by keyword and publication date.
- Chart 12-month price index history for materials budgeting in construction or manufacturing projects.
- Compare price changes across cities for the same product to identify regional price divergence.
- Combine spot price data with index trend data to assess whether spot prices lead or lag the index.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 100 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 250 req/min |
One credit = one API call regardless of which marketplace API you call. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does MySteel (gc.mysteel.com) offer an official developer API?+
What exactly does get_price_index_trend return, and can I query multiple indices at once?+
index_codes parameter accepts a comma-separated list of index code strings. For each code the response includes an index_code identifier and a data_points array of date/value pairs. The default code ID00187733 represents the general steel (普钢) index. The total_dates field at the top level tells you how many date points were returned across the query.Does get_market_prices cover all steel products listed on gc.mysteel.com, or just the homepage tables?+
Do the news items from get_news_list include article body text?+
news array returns title, url, and date only. Full article body text is not currently exposed. You can fork the API on Parse and revise it to add an endpoint that fetches and parses individual article pages using the returned url values.How fresh is the price data from get_market_prices?+
date field attached to each price object. The homepage tables are updated on Chinese trading days, so data may not change on weekends or public holidays. There is no intraday tick-level granularity; each record represents a single daily published price.