get_trending_md_doc
Retrieve trending cryptocurrency data from CoinGecko as a Markdown document for analysis, including price changes, volume, and market cap in a structured table format.
Instructions
Retrieve a Markdown document containing the CoinGecko trending cryptocurrencies page.
Returns:
A string containing a Markdown-formatted document representing the full CoinGecko trending page.
The document includes:
- Page headers and introductory text.
- A table of trending cryptocurrencies with columns such as Rank, Name, Symbol, Price,
1h Change, 24h Change, 7d Change, 24h Volume, and Market Cap.
- Additional page content like footers, navigation, or metadata.
The trending coins table is embedded within the document and can be extracted for analysis.Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
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Implementation Reference
- main.py:39-53 (handler)The handler function for the 'get_trending_md_doc' tool, registered via @mcp.tool() decorator. It invokes the helper function scrape_trending_coins() to scrape the CoinGecko trending page and return it as Markdown.
@mcp.tool() async def get_trending_md_doc() -> str: """ Retrieve a Markdown document containing the CoinGecko trending cryptocurrencies page. Returns: A string containing a Markdown-formatted document representing the full CoinGecko trending page. The document includes: - Page headers and introductory text. - A table of trending cryptocurrencies with columns such as Rank, Name, Symbol, Price, 1h Change, 24h Change, 7d Change, 24h Volume, and Market Cap. - Additional page content like footers, navigation, or metadata. The trending coins table is embedded within the document and can be extracted for analysis. """ return await scrape_trending_coins() - main.py:9-36 (helper)Supporting utility function that performs web scraping using Playwright to fetch the trending cryptocurrencies from CoinGecko and converts the HTML to Markdown format using html2text.
async def scrape_trending_coins() -> str: """Scrape the CoinGecko trending page and convert it to Markdown.""" async with async_playwright() as p: browser = await p.chromium.launch( headless=True ) context = await browser.new_context( user_agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36', permissions=['geolocation', 'notifications'] ) page = await context.new_page() await page.goto("https://www.coingecko.com/en/highlights/trending-crypto") # Wait for the page to load key content await page.wait_for_selector("table", timeout=60000) # Get the full HTML content of the page html_content = await page.content() # Convert HTML to Markdown using html2text h = html2text.HTML2Text() h.ignore_links = True # Skip links h.ignore_images = True # Skip images h.body_width = 0 # Disable line wrapping markdown = h.handle(html_content) await browser.close() return markdown