Get a commodity price from a Slack request
When a pricing question lands in Slack, Notis can look up the current price for the named commodity and return the result for your team.
Trigger
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Action
Commodity Price
Tool to get real-time price for a commodity. use when you need the current market price by specifying the commodity name. example: "what is the current price of gold?"
Why this helps
A quick pricing question can turn into an extra search, browser tab, and forgotten reply.
- Turn a channel question into a focused price lookup.
- Reduce the chance of leaving a teammate waiting for a simple number.
- Keep the returned price in the run report.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Api ninjas once in the Notis portal.
- 2Create an automation in Automations or ask Notis to create it in plain language.
- 3In one instruction, ask Notis to fetch the current price with Api ninjas when a Slack channel message asks about a named commodity.
- 4Choose the Slack channel message trigger and a run-report channel.
- 5Test with one real commodity-price question in Slack.
Questions about this workflow
Can I name different commodities in Slack?
The action gets a real-time price by specifying the commodity name, so the instruction can use the named commodity from a qualifying message.
Does this cover cryptocurrency prices too?
Api ninjas has a separate crypto price action. This workflow is for its commodity price action.
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