About Tiingo
Tiingo is an MCP server for financial market data, for users who need historical stock prices, company details, crypto prices, or financial news. It supports filtering news by ticker or tag; the news tool requires an eligible personal Tiingo key.
Key features
- 01Query historical daily stock prices
- 02Retrieve company and ticker metadata
- 03Filter financial news by ticker or tag
- 04Query cryptocurrency prices
Use cases
- 01Review historical stock trading prices
- 02Check a company's name, description, and exchange code
- 03Retrieve financial news by ticker or topic
- 04Look up cryptocurrency pair prices
MCP support
It exposes stock, news, and crypto data tools to MCP clients through the Pipeworx gateway or as a local stdio MCP server. The news tool requires a personal Tiingo key with the required access.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http pipeworx-io-tiingo https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-tiingo":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"pipeworx-io-tiingo":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-tiingo":{"type":"http","url":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"pipeworx-io-tiingo":{"serverUrl":"https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project README@pipeworx/tiingo
Financial market data from Tiingo (tiingo.com): EOD stock prices, ticker metadata, crypto prices, and financial news.
Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1684+ live data sources.
Tools
stock_prices(ticker, start_date?, end_date?, frequency?)— EOD historical prices (open/high/low/close/volume/adjClose). Omitstart_datefor just the latest trading day.stock_metadata(ticker)— company name, description, exchange code, and the date range of available EOD data.news(tickers?, tags?, limit?)— recent financial news articles, optionally filtered by ticker or tag.crypto_prices(ticker, resampleFreq?)— crypto pair prices (e.g.btcusd) at a chosen resample frequency.
Auth
Platform key (PLATFORM_TIINGO_KEY) with BYO override via _apiKey — for
stock_prices, stock_metadata, and crypto_prices only.
news is BYO-only (fleet #733): Tiingo's News API sits on a plan tier
above the shared Pipeworx key (a Basic/EOD-only key), so a platform-key call
403s "You do not have permission to access the News API" every time — this is
not an outage, it never worked and structurally can't. Pass your own Tiingo
key on the News-tier plan (Power or higher — see
https://www.tiingo.com/about/pricing) as _apiKey to use this tool; the
gateway will not attempt the shared key for it.
Data sources
https://api.tiingo.com/tiingo/daily/*— EOD prices and ticker metadata.https://api.tiingo.com/tiingo/news— financial news (News-tier plan required; see Auth above).https://api.tiingo.com/tiingo/crypto/prices— crypto prices.
Tiingo separates share classes with a hyphen (BRK-B), not the dot most
sources use (BRK.B) — the pack rewrites . to - automatically, so either
spelling works.
Quick Start
Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):
{
"mcpServers": {
"tiingo": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp"
}
}
}
What this endpoint actually serves
tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tiingo/mcp returns the tools in the table
above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx,
discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the
gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a
single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the
pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and
is the authoritative answer for a given day.
This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a
scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via
ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a
second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without
them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth,
connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.
Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx": {
"url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
}
}
}
Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1684+ data sources. The
only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx
reaches all of them from either one.
No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/stock_prices \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"ticker":"AAPL"}'
No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/stock_prices. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.
Standalone (no gateway account)
This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:
{
"mcpServers": {
"tiingo": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-tiingo"]
}
}
}
Or run it directly to confirm it starts:
npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-tiingo
It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call
for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway
connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.
Using with ask_pipeworx
Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:
ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Tiingo data" })
The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.
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License
MIT
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