finlight Financial News MCP server

finlight MCP Server

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mcp-name: me.finlight/news

Real-time financial news for AI agents. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to finlight, a financial news API covering global markets, geopolitics, and company-level news with sentiment analysis and entity tagging.

Endpoint: https://mcp.finlight.me (remote, streamable HTTP) Auth: OAuth 2.0 (you'll be prompted for your finlight API key during connection) Registry: me.finlight/news

What you can do

Ask your AI assistant things like:

• "What's the latest news on NVDA? Summarize sentiment."
• "Any market-moving headlines in the last 2 hours?"
• "Compare news coverage of the Fed decision across sources."
• "Find recent articles about semiconductor export restrictions and list the companies mentioned."
• "Which sources does finlight cover for Chinese market news?"

Tools

Setup

You need a finlight API key. Sign up at app.finlight.me — the free tier is enough to try every tool below.

Claude (web / desktop)

1. Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
2. Enter https://mcp.finlight.me
3. Complete the OAuth flow: you'll be asked to paste your finlight API key once

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http finlight https://mcp.finlight.me

Cursor

Add to your MCP settings (.cursor/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finlight": {
      "url": "https://mcp.finlight.me"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT (developer mode / connectors)

Add https://mcp.finlight.me as a remote MCP server and complete the OAuth flow with your API key.

Stdio / local usage

For MCP clients that only support stdio transport (or if you prefer a locally spawned process), use the npm wrapper:

npx finlight-mcp

This bridges stdio to the remote server via mcp-remote. Add it to any client config that takes a command + args:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finlight": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "finlight-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The OAuth flow is the same — a browser window will open for you to enter your API key on first use.

For headless or CI environments where no browser is available, set FINLIGHTAPIKEY to skip OAuth and authenticate directly:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finlight": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "finlight-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "FINLIGHT_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.