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DimensionA-Share MCP ServerMCP server for China A-share market data and financials via BaostockFirecrawl MCP ServerFirecrawl's official MCP server for web search, scraping, and structured extraction for AI agents
FMRS64 / 100 · C75 / 100 · B
Reliability7 / 2013 / 20
Security and permissions15 / 2012 / 20
Maintenance12 / 2016 / 20
Documentation16 / 2017 / 20
Setup experience14 / 2017 / 20
Best for
  • Developers who need programmatic access to A-share market and financial data
  • Users doing A-share Q&A or research/analysis through an AI assistant
  • Individuals wanting free A-share data access without a paid data account
  • Scenarios needing clean, structured web context fed to an AI assistant
  • Users already on the Firecrawl platform who want to call its scraping capability directly via MCP
Not for
  • High-frequency trading scenarios needing real-time tick-level or order-book data
  • Users needing Hong Kong, US, or other non-A-share market data
  • Institutional production environments with strict requirements on data accuracy/timeliness (data source is the free, unofficial Baostock service)
  • Simple static-page scraping where you don't want to depend on a third-party API and incur call costs
  • Sites that explicitly disallow automated access (robots.txt)
Required permissions
  • Runs a local Python process launched via uv
  • Outbound network access to fetch market and financial data from Baostock
  • No API keys or account credentials required
  • Requires a Firecrawl API key to call; cost and quota are governed by the Firecrawl account
  • firecrawl_agent/firecrawl_interact perform automated browser interaction, which may trigger login or form-submission flows on the target site
Risks and side effects
  • Data comes from the free third-party source Baostock, not officially guaranteed, with update delays (e.g. daily K-line data isn't stored until after 17:30)
  • The project was primarily developed and tested on Windows; cross-platform (macOS/Linux) compatibility is not thoroughly verified
  • No authentication mechanism — any client with access to the MCP server can call all tools and query all data
  • If Baostock's underlying interface changes, some tools may break without official support
  • Bulk crawl/map tools can generate significant request volume against a target site — respect the site's rate limits and terms of service
  • firecrawl_agent's interactive action chain is longer — define task boundaries clearly before running it to avoid accidentally triggering actions on a sensitive site
Supported clientsClaude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Trae, CherryStudioClaude Desktop, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Amp
Tools4111