# Narwhal API

> Narwhal API is a developer product for predictable financial and economic data through one shared Interface.

## Authoritative pages

- [Narwhal API — Financial and economic data](https://narwhalapi.com): Product overview for Narwhal API, its shared data categories, response principles, and current availability.
- [Gold API — Narwhal API](https://narwhalapi.com/apis/gold): Accepted Gold API response shape, fields, freshness semantics, limitations, and endpoint plan.
- [FX API — Narwhal API](https://narwhalapi.com/apis/fx): Accepted FX API response shape, rate direction, per-rate freshness, market-session context, and endpoint plan.
- [Quickstart — Narwhal API](https://narwhalapi.com/docs/quickstart): How to authenticate a Narwhal REST request and handle Gold or FX responses, quota headers, and errors.
- [Changelog — Narwhal API](https://narwhalapi.com/changelog): Dated updates to Narwhal API, its documentation, and current public availability.

## Current availability

- The public website is available.
- Public API traffic remains disabled during backend hardening.
- Gold and FX examples describe accepted response shapes, not live endpoint availability.

## Machine discovery

- [Sitemap](https://narwhalapi.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Crawler policy](https://narwhalapi.com/robots.txt)