{"slug": "show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server", "title": "Show HN: Financialdata.net – Stock Market API with Python SDK and MCP Server", "summary": "Financialdata.net launched a stock market API with a Python SDK and MCP server, offering real-time quotes, historical prices, and fundamentals for US and international stocks, ETFs, indices, forex, and crypto. The API supports REST, Python, Excel, and MCP integration, enabling AI workflows with ChatGPT or Claude. Pricing plans are available for solo developers and enterprises.", "body_md": "Power your fintech apps and financial models with a production-ready stock market API. Access real-time quotes, historical prices, and company fundamentals via REST API, Python, Excel, or MCP.\n\n`/api/v1/stock-quotes?identifiers=AAPL`\n\n```\n{  \"trading_symbol\": \"AAPL\",  \"registrant_name\": \"Apple Inc.\",  \"time\": \"2025-09-02 15:56:00\",  \"price\": 238.08,  \"change\": 8.36,  \"percentage_change\": 3.64}\n```\n\nStop stitching together multiple vendors. From intraday pricing to institutional trading data, get all your market data through one API.\n\nOur API delivers real-time quotes for US and international stocks, ETFs, indices, forex, and crypto.\n\nPerfect for backtesting strategies. Get historical stock price data down to the minute.\n\nAccess detailed balance sheets, income statements, cash flows, and key valuation metrics for global companies.\n\nFollow the smart money. Analyze insider transactions, institutional, fund, or ETF holdings.\n\nTrack equities beyond the NYSE and NASDAQ across major European and Asian markets.\n\nQuery our financial data engine directly from ChatGPT, Claude, or custom LLMs via an MCP server.\n\nGet up and running in minutes. Query real-time prices and historical market data in three lines of code. Our Python package handles rate limits, retries, and response parsing out of the box.\n\nConnect Claude to our financial data feed using only an MCP server URL. No custom API wrappers, middleware, or schema mapping required.\n\nWhether you are a solo developer or an enterprise, we have a financial data plan that fits your budget.\n\nPerfect for backtesting and personal projects.\n\nBuilt for production apps and custom AI workflows.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server", "canonical_source": "https://financialdata.net/stock-market-api", "published_at": "2026-08-22 08:34:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-22 08:43:28.337115+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Financialdata.net", "Apple Inc.", "ChatGPT", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-financialdata-net-stock-market-api-with-python-sdk-and-mcp-server.jsonld"}}