There are two practical ways to get Indian mandi wholesale price data into your app right now: the official data.gov.in OGD API, or a keyless wrapper like Mandi Price API. Here's what each actually looks like to integrate.
Option 1: data.gov.in's official API
Steps before your first request:
- Create a free account at data.gov.in
- Generate an API key from your account dashboard
- Find the correct resource ID for the mandi price dataset
- Pass the key and resource ID as query params, and handle pagination (
limit/offset) yourself for anything beyond the default page size
A request typically looks like https://api.data.gov.in/resource/<resource-id>?api-key=<your-key>&format=json&limit=100, and the response field names are the raw government schema (not always intuitive — e.g. commodity is sometimes under a different key than variety).
Option 2: Mandi Price API (keyless)
No account, no key, no resource ID lookup — for the 5 supported states:
curl -X GET "https://mandi-api.onrender.com/v1/prices?state=Karnataka&commodity=Tomato" \
-H "Accept: application/json"Side by side
| data.gov.in | Mandi Price API | |
|---|---|---|
| Auth | API key required (free signup) | None — fully keyless |
| State coverage | Nationwide, 3,000+ markets | Maharashtra, UP, Punjab, MP, Karnataka |
| Field naming | Raw government schema | Normalized JSON envelope |
| History endpoint | Manual multi-request stitching | Built-in /v1/prices/history |
| Rate limit | Varies by key tier | 100 req / 15 min per IP |
Which one should you use?
Building something nationwide, or need a commodity/state outside the five listed above? Go straight to data.gov.in/Agmarknet — it's the authoritative source and nothing beats its coverage. Prototyping, building a demo, or your use case is scoped to those five states? Mandi Price API gets you a working integration without the signup step.
See the full breakdown of what mandi/APMC data actually contains in APMC Mandi Price Data: A Developer's Guide, or jump straight to the docs and playground.