CoinMarketCap
About
Integrates with CoinMarketCap's API to fetch and analyze cryptocurrency market data, supporting customizable queries for real-time information.
Details
- Author
- longmans
- Repository
- longmans/coin_api_mcp
- GitHub stars
- 25
- Categories
- Cloud Service, Infrastructure, AI, Design, Developer Tools, Search, Frontend, Knowledge Base, API
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Setting up with Highlight
This MCP is not yet compatible with Highlight’s one-click setup. However, you can still use it with Highlight by following these steps:
- Download and install Highlight from highlightai.com/download
- Navigate to the plugins tab and select "Add Custom Plugin"
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Configure the plugin with the settings below
Plugin Name
CoinMarketCapCommand (node, npx, python, etc.)pythonArguments-
Argument 1
-m -
Argument 2
coin_api_mcp
Environment-
COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY
your_api_key_here
Please refer to the README for specific instructions on how to obtain API keys or other required environment variables.
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Argument 1
- Enable "Start Automatically" if you want the plugin to start when Highlight launches
From the repository
To install Cryptocurrency Data for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install coin-api-mcp --client claude
Add to your Claude settings:
<details>
<summary>Using pip installation</summary>
"mcpServers": {
"coin_api": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "coin_api_mcp"]
},
"env": {
"COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
}
}
If you see any issue, you may want to use the full path for the Python interpreter you are using. You can do a which python to find out the exact path if needed.
Remember to set the COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY environment variable or provide it via the --api-key argument.
listing-coins
Fetches a paginated list of all active cryptocurrencies with the latest market data. Parameters: start (integer, optional), limit (integer, optional), price_min (number, optional), price_max (number, optional), market_cap_min (number, optional), market_cap_max (number, optional), convert (string, optional), sort (string, optional), sort_dir (string, optional)
get-coin-info
Retrieves detailed information about a specific cryptocurrency. Parameters: id (string, optional), slug (string, optional), symbol (string, optional)
get-coin-quotes
Fetches the latest market quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies. Parameters: id (string, optional), slug (string, optional), symbol (string, optional)
- listing-coins - Fetches a paginated list of all active cryptocurrencies with the latest market data.
- start (integer, optional): Offset the start (1-based index) of the paginated list of items to return.
- limit (integer, optional): Number of results to return (default: 10, max: 5000).
- price_min (number, optional): Minimum USD price to filter results.
- price_max (number, optional): Maximum USD price to filter results.
- market_cap_min (number, optional): Minimum market cap to filter results.
- market_cap_max (number, optional): Maximum market cap to filter results.
- convert (string, optional): Calculate market quotes in multiple currencies.
- sort (string, optional): Field to sort the list of cryptocurrencies by.
- sort_dir (string, optional): Direction to order cryptocurrencies (asc or desc).
- get-coin-info - Retrieves detailed information about a specific cryptocurrency.
- id (string, optional): One or more comma-separated CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency IDs.
- slug (string, optional): A comma-separated list of cryptocurrency slugs.
- symbol (string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency symbols.
- get-coin-quotes - Fetches the latest market quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies.
- id (string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency CoinMarketCap IDs.
- slug (string, optional): A comma-separated list of cryptocurrency slugs.
- symbol (string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency symbols.
Claude Desktop / Cursor
Paste into your MCP client config file to install this server.
{
"mcpServers": {
"coinmarketcap": {
"env": {
"COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
},
"args": [
"-m",
"coin_api_mcp"
],
"command": "python"
}
}
}Linux
{
"env": {
"COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
},
"args": [
"-m",
"coin_api_mcp"
],
"command": "python"
}Macos
{
"env": {
"COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
},
"args": [
"-m",
"coin_api_mcp"
],
"command": "python"
}Windows
{
"env": {
"COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
},
"args": [
"/c",
"python",
"-m",
"coin_api_mcp"
],
"command": "cmd"
}Provides access to real-time cryptocurrency data from CoinMarketCap.
A Model Context Protocol server that provides access to CoinMarketCap's cryptocurrency data. This server enables AI-powered applications to retrieve cryptocurrency listings, quotes, and detailed information about various coins.
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listing-coins- Fetches a paginated list of all active cryptocurrencies with the latest market data.
- start(integer, optional): Offset the start (1-based index) of the paginated list of items to return.
- limit(integer, optional): Number of results to return (default: 10, max: 5000).
- price_min(number, optional): Minimum USD price to filter results.
- price_max(number, optional): Maximum USD price to filter results.
- market_cap_min(number, optional): Minimum market cap to filter results.
- market_cap_max(number, optional): Maximum market cap to filter results.
- convert(string, optional): Calculate market quotes in multiple currencies.
- sort(string, optional): Field to sort the list of cryptocurrencies by.
- sort_dir(string, optional): Direction to order cryptocurrencies (asc or desc).
get-coin-info- Retrieves detailed information about a specific cryptocurrency.
- id(string, optional): One or more comma-separated CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency IDs.
- slug(string, optional): A comma-separated list of cryptocurrency slugs.
- symbol(string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency symbols.
get-coin-quotes- Fetches the latest market quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies.
- id(string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency CoinMarketCap IDs.
- slug(string, optional): A comma-separated list of cryptocurrency slugs.
- symbol(string, optional): One or more comma-separated cryptocurrency symbols.
To install Cryptocurrency Data for Claude Desktop automatically viaSmithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install coin-api-mcp --client claude
Clone this repository and build and install the program with your default Python interpreter (recommended).
git clone https://github.com/longmans/coin_api_mcp.git cd coin_api_mcp uv build uv pip install .
After installation, you can run it as a script using:
The server requires a CoinMarketCap API key to function. You can obtain one fromCoinMarketCap's website. The API key can be provided in two ways:
export COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
python -m coin_api_mcp --api-key=your_api_key_here
"mcpServers": { "coin_api": { "command": "python", "args": ["-m", "coin_api_mcp"] }, "env": { "COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here" } }
If you see any issue, you may want to use the full path for the Python interpreter you are using. You can do awhich pythonto find out the exact path if needed.
Remember to set the COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY environment variable or provide it via the --api-key argument.
You can use the MCP inspector to debug the server
We encourage contributions to help expand and improve Coin MCP Server. Whether you want to add new search capabilities, enhance existing functionality, or improve documentation, your input is valuable.
For examples of other MCP servers and implementation patterns, see:https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers
Pull requests are welcome! Feel free to contribute new ideas, bug fixes, or enhancements to make Coin MCP Server even more powerful and useful.
Coin MCP Server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.
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