What the Data for This Category Looks Like
Data sources for precious metals financial report and trading data include London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) fixing data, Shanghai Gold Exchange domestic trading data, National Bureau of Statistics precious metals industry statistical data, and public financial reports of listed gold enterprises. Data update rhythms vary significantly: intraday trading data updates every 15 minutes, monthly inventory data releases by the 5th of each month, and quarterly financial reports update per listed company disclosure cycles. Most data documents appear as structured tables or PDF files. Core fields include trading product name, trading unit, daily average transaction price, daily total transaction volume, month-end inventory balance, amount of precious metals-related revenue in quarterly revenue, and units such as USD/oz, CNY/g, and kg.
Constraints on Tool Calling and Plugins
Multi-source data structures and authentication methods differ, so plugins must connect multiple independent API endpoints. This increases interface configuration complexity. Data update cycles vary significantly. Differentiated pull scheduling rules must be set for intraday trading data, monthly inventory data, and quarterly financial reports to avoid invalid requests or expired data. Disparate cross-market units require built-in unit conversion logic during tool calling to ensure consistent pricing units for analysis results. Non-standard table layouts appear in PDF-format financial report data. Plugins must integrate dedicated table extraction modules to accurately match the unique content structure of precious metals financial reports.
Configuration Settings
| Configuration Item | Recommended Setting | Rationale |
|---|---|---|
PLUGIN_API_TIMEOUT | 30 seconds | Precious metals intraday trading data API responses typically complete within 10 seconds. An overly long timeout setting will block pipeline execution |
PARSE_PDF_TIMEOUT_SECONDS | 600 seconds | Financial report PDFs from listed gold enterprises usually contain multiple pages of tables and charts, leading to longer parsing times |
PLUGIN_REQUEST_HEADERS | {"Content-Type": "application/json", "X-API-Key": "{{user_secret}}"} | Most precious metals data source APIs require JSON-formatted request bodies and API key authentication |
DATA_UNIT_CONVERSION | Enabled, target unit is CNY/gram | The mainstream pricing unit for domestic precious metals trading is CNY/gram. Unifying units simplifies subsequent analysis logic |
PLUGIN_SCHEDULE_POLICY | Configured by data type group: pull intraday data every 15 minutes, pull monthly inventory data once per month, pull quarterly financial report data once per quarter | Matches the official update rhythms of different data sources to avoid invalid requests and expired data |
HTTP_RETRY_MAX_TIMES | 3 times | Precious metals data source APIs experience occasional fluctuations. Limited retries reduce request failure rates |
The parameter values provided on this page are common recommended starting points for configuration. Actual values are affected by material form, data volume, and business rules. Specific issues require case-by-case analysis, and it is recommended to test on your own samples before finalizing settings.
Three Common Misconfigurations
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Failed to fetcherror may occur when calling a precious metals data source API, even with a correctly configured interface address. Cause: Correct authentication request headers are not configured, or cross-domain requests for the specified domain are not allowed. Some precious metals data source APIs block requests from unauthorized domains. - Plugin parsing of financial reports may return empty fields, making it impossible to extract precious metals-related revenue data. Cause: The table extraction switch for PDF parsing is not enabled, or parsing rules do not match the unique table layout of precious metals financial reports, leading to failure to recognize core data.
- Intraday trading data may fail to update after a scheduled pull task is configured. Cause: The pull interval for all data types is set to the same value, and the update rhythms of intraday trading data and quarterly financial reports are not differentiated, leading to task trigger frequencies that do not match the data source update cycles.
How to Verify Successful Configuration
- Manually trigger plugin calls, and check whether returned results include specified fields for precious metals trading data, and that the pricing unit matches the configured target unit.
- Review plugin operation logs to confirm scheduled tasks execute at the configured interval, and that intraday data tasks run at the set 15-minute cycle.
- Upload a financial report PDF from a listed gold enterprise, and verify whether the plugin can extract precious metals-related trading and revenue data fields.
- Call the authentication interface to receive valid business data without an authentication failure prompt, confirming that the API key and format configured in the request headers are correct.
Question material comes from public community discussions. Configuration values are common starting points and should be measured against your own samples. Verified on 2026-09-14.