# Yahoo Finance2 (MCP server)

> 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.

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

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/gadicc/yahoo-finance2 |
| GitHub stars | 801 |
| License | MIT |
| Language | HTML |
| Transport | stdio |
| Packages | npm: yahoo-finance2 |
| Remote URL | none |
| Needs API key | no |
| Official | no |
| Works with | Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code |
| Category | Finance |
| Latest release | v4.0.3 (Oct 4, 2026) |
| Last commit | Oct 4, 2026 |

## Install

### Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json)

```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

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

### Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json)

```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)

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "yahoo-finance2": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "yahoo-finance2"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Config formats checked against the official docs on 2026-10-07.

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