Commodities Screensaver
The Commodities screensaver is a live board of commodity prices — crude oil, natural gas, gold, copper, wheat and coffee — with their daily moves, gathered from public futures data by the pipeline. It's free, runs in your browser, display only, and ESC exits.
Live preview
Press ESC to leave fullscreen. Settings are saved in your browser only.
How the Commodities screensaver works
A background pipeline reads futures prices for the world's key commodities — energy, metals and agriculture — from public market data.
The saver lays them out as a board: each commodity with its price, unit and the day's move.
Risers are green with an up arrow, fallers red with a down arrow, each with a small flashing tick.
It refreshes on a schedule so the board tracks the market through the day.
A worked example
The board reads down the commodities — Crude Oil $69.23 ▼ -5.4%, Gold $2,410 ▲ +0.8%, Wheat, Coffee — the green and red arrows shifting as the futures markets move.
Settings & tips
- Accent recolours the board headings.
- Background sets the board backdrop.
- Run
automation/run.py commoditieson your pipeline machine to refresh prices.
Frequently asked questions
- Are the prices real?
- Yes. They're public commodity-futures prices gathered by the pipeline, refreshed on a schedule.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. It's a display of public market data for ambiance, not advice of any kind.
- Why does it use a pipeline?
- The market source isn't readable directly from a browser, so a small background script fetches it and saves a snapshot.
- Which commodities are shown?
- Energy (oil, gas), metals (gold, silver, copper) and agriculture (wheat, corn, soybeans, coffee).
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.