blpapi-mcp

blpapi-mcp

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A MCP server providing financial data from Bloomberg's blpapi.

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

  1. Install UV
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  1. Clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/djsamseng/blpapi-mcp
  1. Setup the venv
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
  1. Run the MCP server
uv run blpapi-mcp --sse --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000
  1. Run a test client that starts up it's own server in stdio mode
uv run examples/clients/blp_stdio_client.py
  1. 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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