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Gold Price Alerts by nusantara-ventures

Name: Gold Price Alerts
Author: nusantara-ventures

Gold Price Alerts

Build a gold price alert / monitor / watcher that polls goldprice.dev and fires when a threshold is crossed — staying inside the Free tier's rate limit and quota. Use this whenever the user builds a gold price alert, monitor, watcher, cron job, or "notify me when gold hits X" bot — even if they don't mention rate limits or goldprice.dev. Especially reach for it when they worry about polling frequency, running out of quota, or alerting on a stale/frozen price.

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goldprice.dev — price alerts (Free-tier friendly)

Poll the spot price, compare to a threshold, notify. Runs on the Free tier (free key, no card): 30 req/min, 1,000 req/mo.

Poll the spot price

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ga_live_..." \
  "https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/spot/XAU-USD-SPOT"

Response (values are strings; symbol is the base only):

{"symbol":"XAU","quote_currency":"USD","unit":"troy_ounce","contract_type":"spot","price":"4165.16","bid":"4167.03","ask":"4163.28","is_stale":false,"computed_at":"2026-07-07T13:12:19Z"}

Compare float(price) to your threshold; notify on crossing. bid/ask carry the spread if you need it.

Two rules that keep alerts correct

Respect is_stale. Never fire (or clear) an alert on a row where is_stale is true — you'd alert on a frozen price. For provenance, add ?include=sources to see each source's own is_stale, fetched_at, and source_timestamp.
Budget your polls against the quota. 1,000/mo ≈ one poll every ~43 min if run continuously. Poll only during the hours you care about, cache the last value, and dedupe repeat notifications. Physical ($10) raises this to 20k/mo, Pro ($30) to 100k/mo when you need tight cadence.

Sketch

import time, httpx
THRESHOLD, last = 3400.0, None
while True:
    r = httpx.get("https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/spot/XAU-USD-SPOT",
                  headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ga_live_..."}).json()
    if not r["is_stale"]:
        price = float(r["price"])
        if last is not None and (last < THRESHOLD <= price or last > THRESHOLD >= price):
            notify(f"gold crossed {THRESHOLD}: {price}")
        last = price
    time.sleep(300)  # 5 min: inside the 30/min rate limit. But continuous
                     # 5-min polling is ~8.6k/mo — over Free's 1k/mo. On Free,
                     # run only during your alert window; ~hourly fits 1k/mo.

Divergence alerts (no key)

Alert when sources disagree — a data-quality signal:

curl "https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/prices/divergence?threshold=50"

Anonymous returns a count; authenticated returns per-symbol detail (tier-filtered). threshold is in basis points.

When to upgrade

Higher poll cadence → Physical/Pro quota. Silver/copper alerts (XAG/HG) → Pro. Sub-second reaction → Realtime Pro ($80) WebSocket stream instead of polling (see the realtime docs at https://goldprice.dev/docs/stream).

---name: gold-price-alertsdescription: Build a gold price alert / monitor / watcher that polls goldprice.dev and fires when a threshold is crossed — staying inside the Free tier's rate limit and quota. Use this whenever the user builds a gold price alert, monitor, watcher, cron job, or "notify me when gold hits X" bot — even if they don't mention rate limits or goldprice.dev. Especially reach for it when they worry about polling frequency, running out of quota, or alerting on a stale/frozen price.---# goldprice.dev — price alerts (Free-tier friendly)Poll the spot price, compare to a threshold, notify. Runs on the **Free tier** (free key, no card): 30 req/min, 1,000 req/mo.## Poll the spot price```bashcurl -H "Authorization: Bearer ga_live_..." \ "https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/spot/XAU-USD-SPOT"```Response (values are **strings**; `symbol` is the base only):```json{"symbol":"XAU","quote_currency":"USD","unit":"troy_ounce","contract_type":"spot","price":"4165.16","bid":"4167.03","ask":"4163.28","is_stale":false,"computed_at":"2026-07-07T13:12:19Z"}```Compare `float(price)` to your threshold; notify on crossing. `bid`/`ask` carry the spread if you need it.## Two rules that keep alerts correct1. **Respect `is_stale`.** Never fire (or clear) an alert on a row where `is_stale` is `true` — you'd alert on a frozen price. For provenance, add `?include=sources` to see each source's own `is_stale`, `fetched_at`, and `source_timestamp`.2. **Budget your polls against the quota.** 1,000/mo ≈ one poll every ~43 min if run continuously. Poll only during the hours you care about, cache the last value, and dedupe repeat notifications. Physical ($10) raises this to 20k/mo, Pro ($30) to 100k/mo when you need tight cadence.## Sketch```pythonimport time, httpxTHRESHOLD, last = 3400.0, Nonewhile True: r = httpx.get("https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/spot/XAU-USD-SPOT", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer ga_live_..."}).json() if not r["is_stale"]: price = float(r["price"]) if last is not None and (last < THRESHOLD <= price or last > THRESHOLD >= price): notify(f"gold crossed {THRESHOLD}: {price}") last = price time.sleep(300) # 5 min: inside the 30/min rate limit. But continuous # 5-min polling is ~8.6k/mo — over Free's 1k/mo. On Free, # run only during your alert window; ~hourly fits 1k/mo.```## Divergence alerts (no key)Alert when sources disagree — a data-quality signal:```bashcurl "https://api.goldprice.dev/v1/prices/divergence?threshold=50"```Anonymous returns a count; authenticated returns per-symbol detail (tier-filtered). `threshold` is in basis points.## When to upgradeHigher poll cadence → Physical/Pro quota. Silver/copper alerts (`XAG`/`HG`) → Pro. Sub-second reaction → Realtime Pro ($80) WebSocket stream instead of polling (see the realtime docs at https://goldprice.dev/docs/stream).

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