blpapi-mcp
Enables access to Bloomberg financial data via MCP, requiring a Bloomberg Terminal.
README
BLPAPI-MCP
A MCP server providing financial data from Bloomberg's blpapi.
Note: A Bloomberg Terminal must be running (BBComm must be accessible) for data access.
Installation
Using UV
uv add git+https://github.com/djsamseng/blpapi-mcp
Run the MCP Server
uv run blpapi-mcp --sse --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
Using blpapi-cmp from Cursor
- For project only: create .cursor/mcp.json in your project directory
- For global: create
~/.cursor/mcp.json - Replace the host and port with the MCP server running from above
{
"mcpServers": {
"server-name": {
"url": "http://127.0.0.1:8000/sse",
}
}
}
Using blpapi-mcp from Claude Code
- Replace the url with the MCP server running from above
claud mcp add --transport sse blpapi-mcp http://127.0.0.1:8000/sse
Using blpapi-mcp from Aider
Development
Requirements
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
- Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/djsamseng/blpapi-mcp
- Setup the venv
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
- Run the MCP server
uv run blpapi-mcp --sse --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
- Run a test client that starts up it's own server in stdio mode
uv run examples/clients/blp_stdio_client.py
- Run a test client that uses an existing running sse server
uv run examples/clients/blp_sse_client.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port 8000
Trademark Note
This project not affiliated with Bloomberg Finance L.P. The use of the name Bloomberg is only descriptive as towards what this package is used with.
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