# stock-snapshot-mcp

> A minimal, educational MCP server that provides a single stock snapshot tool using the free Alpha Vantage API.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/stock-snapshot-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Pavatharani Senthil Kumar
- homepage: https://github.com/pforpav/stock-snapshot-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/pforpav/stock-snapshot-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:stock-snapshot-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 📈 Stock Snapshot MCP  

*A minimal, educational MCP server for stock snapshots using the free Alpha Vantage API.*

**Stock Snapshot MCP** is a tiny, easy-to-read reference implementation of a  
[Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server.

It exposes a **single, clean tool**:
```get_stock_snapshot(symbol, history_days=60)```

This tool queries the free Alpha Vantage API and returns:

- Company metadata (name, sector, industry, exchange, currency)  
- Latest quote (price, change, percent, previous close, volume)  
- Basic fundamentals (PE ratio, EPS, market cap, ROE, profit margin — if available)  
- Recent OHLCV price history (daily candles)

This project is ideal for:

- People learning MCP through a small, realistic example  
- Developers building **RAG-ready financial research agents**  
- Students who want a simple MCP server to extend or customize  
- Anyone experimenting with Claude / ChatGPT MCP integrations  
- Mini-projects where clean, structured stock data is useful  

> **Note:** This project is *not* affiliated with Alpha Vantage.  
> It is designed solely as an educational reference.  
> **Not for real trading or investment decisions.**

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## ✨ Features

- 📦 **Lightweight Python package** (`pip install stock-snapshot-mcp`)
- 🔌 **MCP server (stdio)** compatible with Claude Desktop, ChatGPT MCP, and other tools
- 🔍 Clean JSON output suitable for LLM reasoning & agent pipelines

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## ⚙️ Installation

### **1. Install the package**
```bash
pip install stock-snapshot-mcp
```
### **2. Set your Alpha Vantage API key**

Create a .env file or export it:
```bash
export ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=your_key_here
```
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## 🚀 Running the MCP server

Once installed:
```bash
stock-snapshot-mcp
```

This launches the MCP server over stdio, ready to be used by MCP-compatible clients.
To see logs:
```bash
STOCK_SNAPSHOT_MCP_LOG=info stock-snapshot-mcp
```

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## 🧪 Testing locally (Python)

You can call the helper function directly:…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- finance.markets (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/stock-snapshot-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T13:19:47.799Z)

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