Answer commodity price questions in Slack
Get a current market reference while the discussion is happening.
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
Pricing questions interrupt work when someone must leave Slack and search several sources manually.
- Speed up purchasing and planning discussions
- Provide current price context
- Reduce repeated manual searches
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slackbot and Api ninjas in Notis once.
- 2Create an automation named Commodity Price Pulse.
- 3Tell Notis to identify the requested commodity and return its current price with context.
- 4Pick Channel Message Received as the trigger and choose the report channel.
- 5Test with a commodity question such as gold.
Questions about this workflow
Can users request any commodity?
The workflow should run when Api ninjas supports the named commodity and otherwise explain the limitation.
Is historical pricing included?
This action returns a current commodity price, not a full historical series.
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