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Access live and historical produce commodity prices from ProduceIQ. 39 commodities, weekly updates, and data back to 2005 via 3 endpoints.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/3e41a1c7-b374-4d5b-8ee5-21fd64fcd470/get_current_prices?category=citrus' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Get the latest prices for all produce commodities. Returns current price per pound, weekly rate of change, and last update timestamp for each commodity. Optionally filter by category or commodity name.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| category | string | Filter by category name (case-insensitive partial match). Accepted values include 'citrus', 'berries', 'tomatoes', 'lettuce', 'tropical', 'peppers', 'squash', 'melons', 'potatoes', 'onions', 'avocados'. |
| commodity | string | Filter by commodity name (case-insensitive partial match). Examples: 'avocados', 'strawberries', 'potatoes', 'limes'. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"total": "integer count of commodities returned",
"commodities": "array of objects with category, commodity, current_price_per_lb, rate_of_change_pct, week, year, last_update, is_enabled"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"total": 3,
"commodities": [
{
"week": 19,
"year": 2026,
"category": "Fruit: Citrus",
"commodity": "Limes",
"is_enabled": true,
"last_update": "2026-05-08T00:00:00Z",
"rate_of_change_pct": 4.3478260869,
"current_price_per_lb": 0.96
},
{
"week": 19,
"year": 2026,
"category": "Fruit: Citrus",
"commodity": "Oranges",
"is_enabled": true,
"last_update": "2026-05-08T00:00:00Z",
"rate_of_change_pct": -1.4492753624,
"current_price_per_lb": 0.68
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the produceiq.com API
The ProduceIQ API exposes current and historical wholesale produce prices across 39 commodities through 3 endpoints. get_current_prices returns the latest price per pound, weekly rate of change, and update timestamp for every tracked item. get_commodity_history drills into per-commodity weekly price records going back to 2005, and get_industry_index returns a single weighted average price index across the full commodity set.
What the API Covers
ProduceIQ tracks 39 produce commodities organized into categories including citrus, berries, tomatoes, melons, and other fruits and vegetables. Prices are expressed in dollars per pound and updated on a weekly basis. Each commodity record includes current_price_per_lb, rate_of_change_pct, the ISO last_update timestamp, week, year, and a boolean is_enabled flag. The get_current_prices endpoint accepts optional category and commodity parameters for case-insensitive partial filtering, so a query for 'citrus' returns all citrus commodities without needing exact names.
Historical Price Data
get_commodity_history accepts a required commodity parameter and optional year and limit parameters. It returns a price_history array of objects keyed by year and week, alongside total_records, current_price_per_lb, and rate_of_change_pct. Historical coverage runs from 2005 to the present, giving over 1,000 weekly data points per commodity for long-running items. If the commodity string doesn't match any known entry, the endpoint returns a stale_input error rather than an empty result.
Industry-Level Index
get_industry_index returns the ProduceIQ Produce Price Index — a single weighted average price across all 39 commodities — as a time series. The response includes a prices array of {year, week, price_per_lb} objects, total_records, and an available_years array listing every year with data from 2005 onward. The year and limit parameters let you scope results to a single calendar year or cap the number of records returned.
- Build a live produce price dashboard displaying current $/lb and week-over-week change for each commodity using
get_current_prices. - Detect price volatility alerts by monitoring
rate_of_change_pctacross all commodities and flagging movements above a threshold. - Generate multi-year trend charts for specific commodities like avocados or strawberries using
get_commodity_historywith a year filter. - Benchmark a single commodity's price against the broader market by comparing its history to the
get_industry_indextime series. - Feed wholesale price data into a procurement cost model that recalculates margins weekly as new
current_price_per_lbvalues arrive. - Power an agricultural research tool that compares seasonal price patterns across categories like berries and melons over multiple years.
- Automate category-level price reporting by filtering
get_current_pricesbycategoryto generate weekly summaries for each produce group.
| 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 ProduceIQ offer an official developer API?+
How does `get_commodity_history` behave when a commodity name isn't recognized?+
commodity parameter. If no match is found — for example, a misspelled name or one not in the 39-commodity set — the response returns a stale_input error rather than an empty array, so your integration should handle that error state explicitly.Does the API cover retail grocery prices or only wholesale commodity prices?+
Is price data available at daily or sub-weekly granularity?+
get_commodity_history and get_industry_index return data keyed by year and week, not by individual date. Daily price granularity is not currently available through these endpoints. You can fork the API on Parse and revise it to add finer-grained data if a suitable source is identified.