Alpha Vantage Financial Data
Retrieves real-time stock quotes and historical price data from Alpha Vantage API for financial analysis.
Integrates with Alpha Vantage API to provide stock quotes and historical data for financial analysis and market research tasks.
What it does
- Get current stock quotes by symbol
- Fetch historical stock data (daily/weekly/monthly)
- Query market prices for financial analysis
- Access Alpha Vantage financial datasets
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About Alpha Vantage Financial Data
Alpha Vantage Financial Data is a community-built MCP server published by xbluecode that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Get real-time stock price for NVDA, NVIDIA, and AMA plus historical data for market research via Alpha Vantage Financial It is categorized under finance, analytics data.
How to install
You can install Alpha Vantage Financial Data in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
License
Alpha Vantage Financial Data is released under the MIT license. This is a permissive open-source license, meaning you can freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Financial Data - MCP Server
This is an MCP server that provides access to the Alpha Vantage API, allowing stock data retrieval to be used as context to LLMs.
Available Features
getStockQuote: Get the current quote for a stock.getHistoricalData: Get historical data for a stock (daily, weekly, or monthly).- (More tools will be added later for technical analysis, company overview, etc.)
Setup
Installing via Smithery
To install Financial Data Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install findata-mcp-server --client claude
Manual Installation
npm install findata-mcp-server
Usage in Host
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Obtain an API key from Alpha Vantage https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key.
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Configure your MCP client (e.g., Claude Desktop) to connect to the server:
{
"mcpServers": {
"alphaVantage": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "findata-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"ALPHA_VANTAGE_API_KEY": "PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE"
}
}
}
}
Tools
getStockQuote
Get the current quote for a stock.
Input:
symbol: The stock symbol (e.g., AAPL)
Output Example:
getHistoricalData
Get historical data for a stock.
Input:
symbol: the stock symbol (e.g., AAPL)interval: the time interval for the data (daily,weekly, ormonthly) (optional, default:daily)outputsize: the size of the output (compactorfull) (optional, default:compact) Output:
JSON object containing the historical data. The structure of the output depends on the interval parameter.
Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or pull request.
License
MIT
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