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Yahoo Finance2

Yahoo Finance2 is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Unofficial API for Yahoo Finance with CLI, MCP and Agent Skill. It has 801 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y yahoo-finance2.

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Install Yahoo Finance2

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yahoo-finance2": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "yahoo-finance2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio yahoo-finance2 -- npx -y yahoo-finance2

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yahoo-finance2": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "yahoo-finance2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "yahoo-finance2": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "yahoo-finance2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About Yahoo Finance2

Unofficial API for Yahoo Finance with CLI, MCP and Agent Skill. Copyright (c) 2021 by Gadi Cohen and Pilwon Huh. MIT licensed.

  • yahoo
  • finance
  • yahoo-finance
  • agent-skill
  • mcp-server

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What is Yahoo Finance2?

Yahoo Finance2 is an MCP server that adds finance tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. Unofficial API for Yahoo Finance with CLI, MCP and Agent Skill. It has 801 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y yahoo-finance2. The source code is at github.com/gadicc/yahoo-finance2.

How do I install the Yahoo Finance2 MCP server?

Add the command npx -y yahoo-finance2 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Yahoo Finance2 free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is Yahoo Finance2 actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 4, 2026. The latest release is v4.0.3, published Oct 4, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.