@pipeworx/cryptocompare

CoinDesk Data (formerly CryptoCompare / CCData) MCP — crypto prices, OHLC history, social stats, news.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1863+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

The vendor renamed twice: developers.ccdata.io 301s to developers.coindesk.com, and min-api's own 401 body points callers there. The legacy data host min-api.cryptocompare.com still serves and is what this pack calls; data-api.coindesk.com is the current host.

BYOK-only since 2026-09-30 (fleet #2444). The shared platform key was permanently over quota — every tool authenticated but returned the vendor body "You are over your rate limit please upgrade your account!" (472 calls/30d, all soft-failing). Bruce ruled byok: bring your own CoinDesk Data key. platformKeyEnv was removed from the gateway manifest, so Pipeworx no longer fronts any key for this pack — every tool requires _apiKey and refuses cleanly ({found:false, reason:"missing_api_key", …}) without one. No plan or quota is quoted here because CoinDesk Data's pricing page no longer publishes one without an account — see https://developers.coindesk.com/pricing/.

Without your own key, use the crypto pack (get_crypto_price) for current prices and daily history, or crypto-feeds for crypto news.

Auth

Bring your own CoinDesk Data key: pass it as _apiKey on every call. Free signup at https://developers.coindesk.com/. Pipeworx does not supply a shared key for this pack.

Related MCP server: mcp-coinpaprika

Tools

• price(fsym, tsyms, e?, extraParams?, sign?) — current price (one coin → many fiat)

• price_multi(fsyms, tsyms, e?, extraParams?, sign?) — current price (many → many)

• price_full(fsyms, tsyms, e?) — full snapshot (24h vol, etc.)

• histo_minute(fsym, tsym, limit?, aggregate?, toTs?, e?) — minute OHLC

• histo_hour(fsym, tsym, limit?, aggregate?, toTs?, e?) — hourly OHLC

• histo_day(fsym, tsym, limit?, aggregate?, toTs?, e?) — daily OHLC

• top_pairs(fsym, limit?) — top trading pairs

• top_volume_full(tsym, limit?, page?) — top by volume

• top_market_cap(limit?, tsym?, page?) — top by market cap

• news(lang?, sortOrder?, lTs?, feeds?, categories?, excludeCategories?) — news feed

• news_categories() — news categories

• news_feeds() — news feeds

• social_stats(coinId) — social stats by coin id

• all_coins() — full coin list

• all_exchanges() — exchange list

Data sources

• API: https://min-api.cryptocompare.com (legacy host, still live; current host is https://data-api.coindesk.com)

• Docs + keys: https://developers.coindesk.com/

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cryptocompare": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/cryptocompare/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/cryptocompare/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 1863+ 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

This pack takes your own API key (_apiKey) — we don't front one for it, so there's no curl here that would run without it. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/cryptocompare_price. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-cryptocompare is a local stdio bridge to the Pipeworx gateway: your MCP client starts it with npx, and it forwards every call to the same https://gateway.pipeworx.io/cryptocompare/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cryptocompare": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-cryptocompare"]
    }
  }
}

Without a key it calls anonymously, capped at 50 calls a day. A free account raises that to 200 a day: get a key at https://pipeworx.io/signup and add "env": { "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<your key>" } to the server entry. The key is sent as a Bearer token, the same way a hosted connection sends it, so calls are metered and billed exactly as they are there.

It lists only this pack's tools by default. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 to also list ask_pipeworx and the other gateway-wide tools.

Behind an HTTPS proxy: Node's built-in fetch does not read HTTPS_PROXY by default. Newer Node releases honour it when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set; check your Node version's documentation.

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 Cryptocompare data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides

• pipeworx.io

License

MIT