Coin MCP Server

Available Tools

• listing-coins: Fetches a paginated list of all active cryptocurrencies with the latest market data.
• get-coin-info: Retrieves detailed information about a specific cryptocurrency.
• get-coin-quotes: Fetches the latest market quotes for one or more cryptocurrencies.

Installation# Installing via Smithery

To install Cryptocurrency Data for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

npx -y @smithery/cli install coin-api-mcp --client claude
```\n\n### Build the Server
Clone this repository and build and install the program with your default Python interpreter (recommended).
```bash
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:

python -m coin_api_mcp
```\n\n## Configuration# API Key
The server requires a CoinMarketCap API key to function. You can obtain one from CoinMarketCap's website. The API key can be provided in two ways:
1. As an environment variable:
```bash
export COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY=your_api_key_here

2. As a command-line argument:

python -m coin_api_mcp --api-key=your_api_key_here
```\n\n### Configure for Claude.app
Add to your Claude settings:
Using pip installation
```json
"mcpServers": {
  "coin_api": {
    "command": "python",
    "args": ["-m", "coin_api_mcp"]
  },
  "env": {
    "COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"
  }
}
```\n\n## Debugging
You can use the MCP inspector to debug the server.\n\n## Contributing
We encourage contributions to help expand and improve Coin MCP Server. Pull requests are welcome!