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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Oil Price API V1 Futures API
version: v1
description: 'Source-aware oil and energy data API. Check each endpoint''s source timestamp,
coverage, and freshness fields before using a response in a time-sensitive workflow. ## Authentication
API-key endpoints use `Authorization: Token YOUR_API_KEY`. Operations that do
not require an API key explicitly declare an empty security requirement. `/v1/demo/prices` is keyless. ## Rate Limiting
- Free tier: 50 requests per day
- Paid tiers have plan-specific monthly quotas. - `402` means the allowance is exhausted: a Free or post-trial caller
must upgrade, and a paid plan has used its monthly allowance (the body
carries `MONTHLY_QUOTA_EXCEEDED` and reset metadata, so do not retry before
the reset). `429` means an active-trial allowance or a rolling rate limit
(for example the hourly safety limit) is exceeded; retry `429` and transient
`5xx` responses with bounded backoff. - Website login and signup (`POST /sessions` and `POST /users`) also enforce
authentication-attempt limits independently of API plan quotas: 3 attempts
per normalized email address in 5 minutes, and 3 attempts per minute per
verified visitor IP. Requests without a verified proxy identity retain
the existing 20 requests/minute IP ceiling. A `429` on these routes means
wait for `Retry-After` before retrying; upgrading a plan does not remove
authentication-attempt limits. Futures curves are never refused because a market is closed or a session has
just reopened. The last available data is served with `metadata.freshness_status`,
`metadata.stale`, `metadata.latest_data_at` and `metadata.stale_by_minutes`:
`outside_market_hours` while the venue is closed (weekend, daily break,
holiday); `awaiting_first_print` for the first 30 minutes of a new session
while only a valid prior close exists; `degraded` when the market is open and
the source is behind. None of these is a fresh trade; source timestamps remain
unchanged. Data older than the 96-hour serving bound is refused with 503. Gasoil reports `metadata.freshness_status: no_recent_trades` when the
benchmark contract has not traded within 30 minutes but our collector confirmed
the quote within that window and the curve printed within 90 minutes. The last
trade is served with its true `latest_data_at` and `stale_by_minutes`, plus
`source_checked_at` and `curve_latest_trade_at`. Paid monthly-cap responses include `retry_guidance`: immediate retries cannot
restore quota. When a representative sample supports it, `batching_opportunity`
describes an estimated lower request rate; batching does not restore an already
exhausted allowance. It may replace an unnecessary upgrade recommendation. ## Continuous futures coverage
On `/v1/futures/continuous/brent`, `/v1/futures/continuous/wti` and their
`/historical` routes, `metadata.history_available_from` is the earliest
stored public continuous futures source date, falling back to collection
date for older imports without a source timestamp. It is a date string or
null when no public observations exist. Coverage metadata is cached for up
to one hour and does not promise observations or volume on every later date. It describes the archive independently of the request''s date range; account
depth limits remain in `metadata.history_window` on historical responses. Latest-response `metadata.total_historical_records` counts stored public
snapshots, including revisions, rather than distinct source dates. Latest
quotes and their prior-day comparisons exclude private organization rows
and other price types. Repeated source timestamps select the later collected
revision; the oldest metadata/response cache formats are no longer used. ## Spread and indicator query parameters
Spread and indicator endpoints reject unrecognized query parameter names with
HTTP 400 and `error.code: UNKNOWN_PARAMETERS`, after authentication and access
checks. The error includes `unrecognized_parameters`, `allowed_parameters`,
and a `suggestions` map for recognized date-name mistakes; values are not
echoed.'
contact:
name: Oil Price API Support
email: support@oilpriceapi.com
url: https://oilpriceapi.com
license:
name: Commercial License
url: https://oilpriceapi.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.oilpriceapi.com
description: Production server
tags:
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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/oilpriceapi/openapi/oilpriceapi-futures-api-openapi.yml