search_views
Search financial calculators
Search for financial calculators matching a question or topic.
Args:
query: Natural language search query (e.g. "should I rent or buy a house")
limit: Maximum number of results to return (default 5, max 20)
Parameterslimitqueryrequired
get_view_signature
Get calculator inputs & outputs
Get the full input/output contract for a financial calculator.
Returns field names, types, defaults, and hints so you know exactly
what inputs to collect from the user before running a calculation.
Args:
owner_username: The view owner's username (from search results)
viewname: The view's URL slug (from search results)
Parametersviewnamerequiredowner_usernamerequired
calculate_view
Run a financial calculation
Run a financial calculation with the provided input values.
Pass field values as a dict mapping field names to values.
Use the types from get_view_signature: amount fields take numbers
(e.g. 300000), percent fields take decimals (0.05 = 5%),
count fields take integers, yesno fields take true/false.
Args:
owner_username: The view owner's username
viewname: The view's URL slug
inputs: Dict of field_name -> value for input fields
Parametersinputsrequiredviewnamerequiredowner_usernamerequired
get_view_source
View calculator formulas
Get the source code/formulas of an open-source financial calculator.
Only available for views that have been published as open-source.
Returns the calculation logic as a readable TSV showing fields,
types, defaults, and formulas.
Args:
owner_username: The view owner's username
viewname: The view's URL slug
Parametersviewnamerequiredowner_usernamerequired
get_pulse
Read today's or this week's FinFam Pulse
Get the current FinFam Pulse — FinFam's twice-daily money-news digest.
Use this for "what's happening in finance / markets / the economy right now"
questions instead of answering from memory. Returns a dated headline and
paragraph, the overall mood, a finfam.app permalink, the external grounding
sources, and the edition's story cards (each with its own article URL). Cite
the permalink and the story URLs. Returns null when nothing is published yet.
Args:
period: 'today' for the latest daily read, 'week' for the running weekly read
Parametersperiod
search_pulse
Search past FinFam Pulse editions
Search past FinFam Pulse editions by topic (e.g. "Fed", "mortgage rates", "layoffs").
Matches both the editions' prose and their individual story cards. Each result
is one dated edition with its headline, paragraph, permalink, sources, and the
story cards that matched. Best match first, newest as the tiebreak.
Args:
query: Topic or keywords to match
days: How many days back to search (default 30, max 365)
limit: Maximum number of editions to return (default 5, max 20)
category: Optional card category filter — one of markets, rates, housing, jobs,
spending, debt, money_drama, human_interest, retirement, taxes
Parametersdayslimitqueryrequiredcategory