Outdated costdb_elements.csv, active elemental price updates for CostAnalysis?

[CifLord]

The costdb_elements.csv is vastly outdated, especially for metal prices. If we look at Rh today, its currently at $600000/kg compared to the $20000/kg price obtained from WolframAlpha in 2013, about a 3000% increase. However even if we update all the elements with the most recent costs, there's still a lot of volatility in price points, e.g. Rh was going for nearly 1mil/kg just a few months ago. Is there a way to implement a pymatgen interface with specific websites like lme.com or anywhere that keeps a daily update on prices so a user has the option of using a static price point provided by a more up-to-date csv file in pymatgen or they use an api-like object (maybe using something like beautifulsoup) that does analysis based on currently reported prices.

[shyuep]

If there is an API that you can use to use latest prices, by all means implement an interface to it. I think there is an XML feed that can be used quite easily.