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Financial Datasets MCP Server

Introduction

This is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to stock market data from Financial Datasets.

It allows Claude and other AI assistants to retrieve income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, stock prices, and market news directly through the MCP interface.

Available Tools

This MCP server provides the following tools:

• get_income_statements: Get income statements for a company.
• get_balance_sheets: Get balance sheets for a company.
• get_cash_flow_statements: Get cash flow statements for a company.
• get_current_stock_price: Get the current / latest price of a company.
• get_historical_stock_prices: Gets historical stock prices for a company.
• get_company_news: Get news for a company.
• get_available_crypto_tickers: Gets all available crypto tickers.
• get_crypto_prices: Gets historical prices for a crypto currency.
• get_historical_crypto_prices: Gets historical prices for a crypto currency.
• get_current_crypto_price: Get the current / latest price of a crypto currency.

Setup

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• uv package manager

Installation

1. Clone this repository:
   git clone https://github.com/financial-datasets/mcp-server
   cd mcp-server
2. If you don't have uv installed, install it:

macOS/Linux

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Windows

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | powershell 3. Install dependencies:

Create virtual env and activate it

uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate

Install dependencies

uv add "mcp[cli]" httpx # On Windows: uv add mcp[cli] httpx 4. Set up environment variables:

Create .env file for your API keys

cp .env.example .env

Set API key in .env

FINANCIAL_DATASETS_API_KEY=your-financial-datasets-api-key 5. Run the server:

Connecting to Claude Desktop

1. Install Claude Desktop if you haven't already
2. Create or edit the Claude Desktop configuration file:

macOS

mkdir -p ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/
nano ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json 3. Add the following configuration:
{
"mcpServers": {
"financial-datasets": {
"command": "/path/to/uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/absolute/path/to/financial-datasets-mcp",
"run",
"server.py"
]
}
}
}
Replace /path/to/uv with the result of which uv and /absolute/path/to/financial-datasets-mcp with the absolute path to this project. 4. Restart Claude Desktop 5. You should now see the financial tools available in Claude Desktop's tools menu (hammer icon) 6. Try asking Claude questions like:

• "What are Apple's recent income statements?"
• "Show me the current price of Tesla stock"
• "Get historical prices for MSFT from 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31"