What is Yahoofinance Mcp

yahoofinance-mcp is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides financial market data from Yahoo Finance, enabling integration of real-time stock quotes, market data, and historical stock information with compatible assistants.

Use cases

Use cases include monitoring stock performance, analyzing market trends, tracking investment portfolios, conducting technical analysis, and visualizing market sentiment.

How to use

To use yahoofinance-mcp, you can run it using Docker. Clone the repository, build the Docker image, and run the container to access the financial data services without needing API keys.

Key features

Key features include real-time stock quotes, market indices data, historical data analysis, built-in rate limiting, market sentiment visualization, portfolio tracking, technical analysis tools, and visual dashboards.

Where to use

yahoofinance-mcp can be used in financial analysis, investment tracking, stock market research, and any application that requires real-time financial data.

Yahoo Finance MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides financial market data from Yahoo Finance. Integrate real-time stock quotes, market data, and historical stock information with Claude and other MCP-compatible assistants, without requiring API keys.

Visualization and Analysis Capabilities

This MCP server enables powerful financial data visualization and analysis through Claude:

Market Sentiment Analysis Dashboard showing real-time index performance, fear/greed indicators, and historical trends

Track your tech portfolio performance with detailed metrics and visualizations

Deep dive technical analysis with price trends, moving averages, and performance insights

Features

• Stock Quotes: Get current stock price, change, range, volume, and other key metrics
• Market Indices: Retrieve data for major market indices like S&P 500, Dow Jones, NASDAQ
• Historical Data: Fetch and analyze historical stock data with customizable time periods and intervals
• Rate limiting: Built-in rate limiting to ensure reliable access to Yahoo Finance
• Sentiment Analysis: Visualize market sentiment with fear/greed indicators and trend analysis
• Portfolio Tracking: Monitor your investment portfolio performance over time
• Technical Analysis: Access moving averages, price trends, and performance metrics
• Visual Dashboards: Generate comprehensive financial dashboards for better insights

Installation

Using Docker (Recommended)

The most reliable way to run the server is using Docker:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/jasontoo/yahoofinance-mcp.git
cd yahoofinance-mcp

# Build the Docker image
docker build -t yahoofinance-mcp .

# Run the container
docker run -i --rm yahoofinance-mcp

Integration with Claude Desktop

1. Download and install Claude Desktop
2. Create or edit the Claude Desktop configuration file:

• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

3. Add the Yahoo Finance server configuration using your preferred method:

Docker Option (Recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yahoofinance": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "yahoofinance-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

4. Save the file and restart Claude Desktop

Available Tools

yahoo_stock_quote

Gets current stock quote information from Yahoo Finance.

Parameters:

• symbol: Stock ticker symbol (e.g., AAPL, MSFT, TSLA)

Example output:

Symbol: AAPL
Name: Apple Inc.
Price: $196.34
Change: $1.67 (0.86%)
Previous Close: $194.67
Open: $195.01
Day Range: $194.14 - $197.21
52 Week Range: $124.17 - $197.21
Volume: 54,364,985
Avg. Volume: 55,486,332
Market Cap: $3,026,858,790,912
P/E Ratio: 32.44
EPS: $6.05
Dividend Yield: 0.51%

yahoo_market_data

Gets current market data from Yahoo Finance for major indices.

Parameters:

• indices (optional): List of index symbols to fetch (default: [“^GSPC”, “^DJI”, “^IXIC”])

Example output:

S&P 500
Price: 5,069.76
Change: -75.62 (-1.47%)
Previous Close: 5,145.37
Day Range: 5,062.68 - 5,143.25

Dow Jones Industrial Average
Price: 38,150.30
Change: -532.43 (-1.38%)
Previous Close: 38,682.73
Day Range: 38,113.08 - 38,672.04

NASDAQ Composite
Price: 16,180.21
Change: -240.32 (-1.46%)
Previous Close: 16,420.52
Day Range: 16,111.78 - 16,405.25

yahoo_stock_history

Gets historical stock data from Yahoo Finance.

Parameters:

• symbol: Stock ticker symbol
• period (optional): Time period (“1d”, “5d”, “1mo”, “3mo”, “6mo”, “1y”, “2y”, “5y”, “10y”, “ytd”, “max”)
• interval (optional): Data interval (“1m”, “2m”, “5m”, “15m”, “30m”, “60m”, “90m”, “1h”, “1d”, “5d”, “1wk”, “1mo”, “3mo”)

Example output:

Historical data for AAPL (1mo, 1d intervals)
Currency: USD
Trading Period: 8/24/2023 to 9/25/2023

Date       | Open     | High     | Low      | Close    | Volume
-----------|----------|----------|----------|----------|------------
8/25/2023  | $181.21  | $181.82  | $180.3   | $181.72  | 38,324,242
8/30/2023  | $185.3   | $187.85  | $184.94  | $187.65  | 60,295,151
9/5/2023   | $188.28  | $189.98  | $187.61  | $189.7   | 45,768,330
9/11/2023  | $174.79  | $175.1   | $173.73  | $174.75  | 63,746,501
9/15/2023  | $175.83  | $176.1   | $173.82  | $175.01  | 93,033,436
9/21/2023  | $174.26  | $177.08  | $174.22  | $176.97  | 66,097,991
9/25/2023  | $175.03  | $176.97  | $173.35  | $176.08  | 63,523,374

Price Change: $-5.13 (-2.83%)

yahoo_company_financials

Gets financial statement data for a company from Yahoo Finance.

Parameters:

• symbol: Stock ticker symbol
• statement (optional): Financial statement type (“income”, “balance”, “cash”, or “all”)
• period (optional): Time period (“annual” or “quarterly”)

yahoo_stock_news_sentiment

Gets recent news articles and sentiment analysis for a stock.

Parameters:

• symbol (optional): Stock ticker symbol (omit for general market news)
• count (optional): Number of news items to retrieve (max 10)

Example Prompts

Once the server is connected to Claude, you can ask questions like:

• “What’s the current price of AAPL stock?”
• “How has Tesla stock performed over the past month?”
• “Show me the current values of major market indices.”
• “What’s the stock price history for MSFT over the last year?”
• “Compare the performance of GOOGL and AMZN over the past 3 months.”
• “What’s the 52-week range for NVDA?”
• “How has the S&P 500 performed today?”
• “Create a market sentiment dashboard for today’s trading.”
• “Generate a portfolio performance chart for my tech stocks.”
• “Show me a technical analysis of Tesla stock with moving averages.”
• “What’s the current fear/greed index in the market?”
• “Visualize the correlation between S&P 500 and VIX over the past month.”

Troubleshooting

If you encounter issues:

1. Claude Desktop Logs:

• Check for errors: tail -n 20 -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log

2. Server Connectivity:

• Make sure Docker is running if using Docker
• Ensure you have an active internet connection

3. Tool Execution Issues:

• Verify ticker symbols are correct
• Check if Yahoo Finance API might be rate-limiting requests
• Wait a few minutes and try again if you see timeout errors

4. Config File Issues:

• Make sure your claude_desktop_config.json is formatted correctly
• Double-check all paths and commands
• Restart Claude Desktop after making changes

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.