finlight

Connect AI agents to real-time financial news covering global markets, geopolitics, and company-level events.

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What it can do

  • Search Articles: Search for financial news articles. Returns market-relevant news enriched with sentiment analysis and optional company entity tagging. Key features: - Advanced query language with boo
  • Get Article By Link: Retrieve a specific financial news article by its URL from the Finlight database. Use this when you have an article URL and want to get its full details including: - Title, summar
  • List Sources: Get a list of all available news sources. Returns metadata for each source including: - domain: The source website domain (e.g., "www.reuters.com") - isDefaultSource: Whether this source

What data it sees

Do you need an account

No: the server works without sign-in

Connect AI agents to real-time financial news covering global markets, geopolitics, and company-level events. Search and filter articles by ticker, source, country, and language; every article includes sentiment scores and tagged company entities with tickers and ISINs. OAuth-based remote server, works out of the box with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP client. Free tier available.

How to connect

How to connect finlight to Claude

The server address to paste into Claude settings:

https://finlight--callbk.run.tools

  1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
  2. Go to Settings → Connectors.
  3. Click Add custom connector.
  4. Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
  5. In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.

Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.

Authorization

After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.

How to connect finlight to ChatGPT

The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:

https://finlight--callbk.run.tools

  1. Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
  2. Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
  3. Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
  4. Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
  5. Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
  6. In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.

OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.

Authorization

On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.

How to connect finlight to Cursor

The server address to paste into Cursor settings:

https://finlight--callbk.run.tools

Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.

Manually:

  1. In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
  2. Paste the JSON copied below into ~/.cursor/mcp.json (per project: .cursor/mcp.json in the repo root).
  3. Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.

Authorization

If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.

Server tool list (3)

Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.

search_articlesSearch for financial news articles. Returns market-relevant news enriched with sentiment analysis and optional company entity tagging. Key features: - Advanced query language with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and field filters (ticker:AAPL, source:reuters.com) - Filter by stock tickers, countries, categories, sources, date ranges, and language - Each article includes sentiment analysis (positive/negative/neutral) with confidence scores - Optional full article content and tagged company entities (requires subscription) Response includes: title, summary, publishDate, source, language, sentiment, confidence, and optionally content and companies array.
get_article_by_linkRetrieve a specific financial news article by its URL from the Finlight database. Use this when you have an article URL and want to get its full details including: - Title, summary, and publication date - Source domain and language - Sentiment analysis (positive/negative/neutral) with confidence score - Optionally: full article content and tagged company entities This is useful for getting details about a specific article you found elsewhere or for enriching article data with sentiment and entity information.
list_sourcesGet a list of all available news sources. Returns metadata for each source including: - domain: The source website domain (e.g., "www.reuters.com") - isDefaultSource: Whether this source is included by default in search results - isContentAvailable: Whether full article content can be retrieved for this source (requires subscription) Use this to discover available sources before filtering with the search_articles tool. Default sources are high-quality financial news outlets included automatically. Non-default sources can be added using the optInSources parameter in search_articles.