finlight Financial News

me.finlightPublished by finlight.meOfficial publisherv1.0.3Updated Oct 25, 2026

Real-time financial news for AI agents: search by ticker and source, with sentiment and entities.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

finlight Financial News gives an assistant real-time financial news search by ticker, source, country and date, with sentiment scores and tagged company data.

What you can do
Search financial news articles by query, tickers, sources, countries, language and date range, returning metadata, sentiment scores and tagged company entities. Retrieve a specific article by its URL with full enrichment, including sentiment confidence and tagged companies with tickers and ISINs. List available news sources with country of origin and content availability.
When to use it
Useful when you want an assistant to track market-moving headlines, summarize sentiment on a company or ticker, compare coverage of an event across sources, or find which companies an article mentions.
Requirements
A finlight API key from a finlight account; the free tier is enough to try the tools. Connect to the remote endpoint over streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.0, or run the npm package finlight-mcp locally over stdio, which bridges to the remote server. For headless or CI use, set the FINLIGHT_API_KEY environment variable to skip the browser OAuth flow. Network access is required.
Before you install
The API key is a credential: it is entered during the OAuth flow or passed as FINLIGHT_API_KEY and sent as a Bearer token, so keep it out of shared configs. MCP requests count toward your API quota, and paid tiers exist for real-time access and higher limits. Queries and article requests go to finlight's remote service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open finlight Financial News in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
  3. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/me.finlight%2Fnews/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "finlight-financial-news": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.finlight.me/"
    }
  }
}

README

finlight MCP Server

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mcp-name: me.finlight/news

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Real-time financial news for AI agents. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client to finlight, a financial news API covering global markets, geopolitics, and company-level news with sentiment analysis and entity tagging.

Endpoint: https://mcp.finlight.me (remote, streamable HTTP) Auth: OAuth 2.0 (you'll be prompted for your finlight API key during connection) Registry: me.finlight/news

What you can do

Ask your AI assistant things like:

  • "What's the latest news on NVDA? Summarize sentiment."
  • "Any market-moving headlines in the last 2 hours?"
  • "Compare news coverage of the Fed decision across sources."
  • "Find recent articles about semiconductor export restrictions and list the companies mentioned."
  • "Which sources does finlight cover for Chinese market news?"

Tools

ToolDescription
search_articlesSearch financial news articles with filters for query, tickers, sources, countries, language, and date range. Returns articles with metadata, sentiment scores, and tagged company entities.
get_article_by_linkRetrieve a specific article by its URL, including full enrichment (sentiment, confidence, tagged companies with tickers and ISINs).
list_sourcesList all available news sources with country of origin and content availability.

Setup

You need a finlight API key. Sign up at app.finlight.me — the free tier is enough to try every tool below.

Claude (web / desktop)

  1. Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
  2. Enter https://mcp.finlight.me
  3. Complete the OAuth flow: you'll be asked to paste your finlight API key once

Claude Code

bash
claude mcp add --transport http finlight https://mcp.finlight.me

Cursor

Add to your MCP settings (.cursor/mcp.json):

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "finlight": {      "url": "https://mcp.finlight.me"    }  }}

ChatGPT (developer mode / connectors)

Add https://mcp.finlight.me as a remote MCP server and complete the OAuth flow with your API key.

Stdio / local usage

For MCP clients that only support stdio transport (or if you prefer a locally spawned process), use the npm wrapper:

bash
npx finlight-mcp

This bridges stdio to the remote server via mcp-remote. Add it to any client config that takes a command + args:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "finlight": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "finlight-mcp"]    }  }}

The OAuth flow is the same — a browser window will open for you to enter your API key on first use.

For headless or CI environments where no browser is available, set FINLIGHT_API_KEY to skip OAuth and authenticate directly:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "finlight": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "finlight-mcp"],      "env": {        "FINLIGHT_API_KEY": "your-api-key"      }    }  }}

How auth works

The server supports two authentication methods:

  1. OAuth 2.0 (default): Dynamic client registration with PKCE. A browser window opens for you to enter your finlight API key. Works out of the box with any MCP client that speaks OAuth.
  2. API key via header: Set the FINLIGHT_API_KEY environment variable to skip the browser flow. The key is sent as a Bearer token directly.

About the data

finlight aggregates and enriches financial news from curated, finance-relevant sources including major wire services, financial publishers, and regional sources in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic (with English canonical entity tagging). Articles include:

  • Sentiment score with confidence
  • Tagged company entities with tickers, ISINs, and exchange listings
  • Source, language, country, and publish metadata

The MCP server uses the same data as the REST and WebSocket APIs.

Rate limits and plans

MCP requests count toward your API quota. See pricing for the current free-tier limit and for paid tiers with real-time access, higher limits, and additional features.

Links

Feedback

Issues and feature requests for the MCP server are welcome here on GitHub. For API questions, use Discord or the support channels above.

Source: README.md at commit a1a6c26

Tools

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Version history

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  1. v1.0.3LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

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