Barchart Launches cmdtyView Labs
Barchart has launched cmdtyView Labs, a new developer offering that provides programmatic access to the market data available through its cmdtyView platform. The offering lets developers, quantitative analysts, and technical teams integrate real-time quotes, historical time series, forward curves, and other commodity market information into their applications and systems.
Commodity Market Data
cmdtyView Labs enables users to contain commodity market data into proprietary applications, quantitative models, motorized workflows, and internal systems. They can use the data to support strategies, risk governance, market research, and compliance reporting. The offering provides access to real-time commodity market data through WebSocket streams. Also, users can retrieve historical OHLC data through HTTP JSON endpoints. Barchart provides official software development kits for Python, C#/.NET, Java, Rust, JavaScript, and Go. These SDKs support connections, Protocol Buffer data processing, and reconnections.
Data Delivery
cmdtyView Labs connects locally to the cmdtyView Desktop application through a WebSocket connection. It delivers data through an efficient Protocol Buffer feed to reduce excessive network round trips and support low-latency delivery for time-sensitive applications.
The architecture uses a local proxy embedded within cmdtyView Desktop. Developers can connect their code to the desktop runtime after users enable the feature. Also, cmdtyView Desktop manages authentication, market data entitlements, and upstream connectivity. It lets developers access market data without building and keeping different authentication or connectivity layer.
Key Capabilities
The offering lets users access real-time market data, retrieve historical price information, and integrate forward curves, options anlytics, and market quotes into custom applications. To build tools for quantitative research, algorithmic trading, risk administration, market anlysis, and compliance reporting, developers can use these capabilities. Barchart also provides technical documentation, implementation guides, sample code, and dedicated engineering support for helping users integrate the offering to workflows.
What Barchart Says
Barchart's Chief Product Officer, Chris Harrison, stressed the boosting demand among commodity market professionals for flexibility in how they use market data. He explained that cmdtyView Labs fuses the data available through cmdtyView with fast, flexible access designed for developers. The central idea is to help users work with commodity market data within their preferred applications and analytical environments. The offering will simplify access to the data and infrastructure they need whether they are developing trading strategies, risk administration workflows, or custom analytics tools.
Availability
cmdtyView Labs is available exclusively through a cmdtyView Labs subscription. It requires the cmdtyView Desktop application. Users may ask for access or learn more through Barchart's website.
About Barchart
Barchart powers financial and commodity markets with real‑time, delayed, and historical data. It offers APIs, streaming feeds, charting tools, and news services for trading, investing, and risk management. It serves banks, brokers, agribusinesses, media outlets, and energy firms worldwide. Barchart delivers data via flexible formats — APIs, streaming, Excel, desktop, and mobile — so clients can integrate seamlessly. Its cmdtyView suite brings commodity pricing, market intelligence, and workflow tools into one platform.
Wrapping Up
Barchart is expanding its commodity workflow solutions with cmdtyView Labs. The new offering gives developers programmatic access to commodity market data. It lets them build tailored applications.
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