Finance Pulse MCP server

Finance Pulse: Python client and MCP server

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Financial news as structured, sourced data. Finance Pulse reads financial news as it is published and turns every article into statements: one-sentence facts with sentiment, importance, tickers, sector, source and publication time. Statements about the same development are clustered into topics, and topics into 19 themes. fintopic.news is a front page built on the same API.

The same setup guide, with the other guides and the API reference, is on the docs site: Use Finance Pulse from Claude, Cursor or Python.

This package gives you two ways to use it:

• a Python client for scripts, notebooks and pipelines;
• an MCP server, so Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients can query the news directly.

You need a RapidAPI key that is subscribed to Finance Pulse. Create a RapidAPI account, open the plans page and subscribe to a plan: Basic is free and is enough to try everything below. Then copy your X-RapidAPI-Key from the API's page on RapidAPI (the endpoint playground shows it). A key that is not subscribed to a plan is answered with 403.

Use it from Claude or Cursor (MCP)

The server runs with uvx, which is part of uv: install uv first. The package itself needs no separate install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env RAPIDAPI_KEY=YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY --transport stdio finance-pulse -- uvx finance-pulse

Claude Desktop and Cursor

(macOS ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows %APPDATA%\Claude\). Quit and restart Claude Desktop completely afterwards.

• Claude Desktop: Settings > Developer > Edit Config opens claudedesktopconfig.json

• Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finance-pulse": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["finance-pulse"],
      "env": { "RAPIDAPI_KEY": "YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

If the server does not start in Claude Desktop, it usually cannot find uvx: put the full path (the output of which uvx, or where uvx on Windows) in "command".

uvx keeps the version it installed first. To move to a new release, use finance-pulse@latest in place of finance-pulse once, or run uv cache clean finance-pulse.

Then ask things like:

• "What is the news saying about Nvidia today? Only the key facts, with sources."
• "Which tickers are suddenly getting more coverage than yesterday?"
• "What are the top developing stories in Energy, and how did the biggest one grow?"
• "Show me Tesla's daily news sentiment for the last two weeks."

Tools

Each tool call is one API request. Results are trimmed and default to small pages, so the free plan goes a long way.

Use it from Python

pip install finance-pulse
export RAPIDAPI_KEY=YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.