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Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

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Overview

Some organizations do not have access to claude.ai and use Claude Code instead. This guide walks you through setting up the official Bigdata.com connector in Claude Code using API Key authentication, so you can search financial news, resolve securities, and generate research reports directly from your terminal.

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Requirements

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Configuration Steps

1

Create a Bigdata API key

You can create your API Key in the Developer Platform > API Keys.Developer Platform > API Keys
Ideally, store the API Key in your password manager, so you can access it in the future.
2

Add the Bigdata.com MCP connector

The following command will add the official Bigdata.com Remote MCP in Claude Code. Replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key you created in the previous step.
claude mcp add --transport http bigdata_com https://mcp.bigdata.com/ \
  --header "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
3

Open Claude Code

Start a new Claude Code session in your terminal:
claude
You can confirm the connector is available by running /mcp inside Claude Code. The bigdata_com server should appear in the list of connected MCP servers along with its available tools.Bigdata.com MCP successfully configured in Claude CodeYou can select it to explore itConnected MCP server with available tools
4

Try it out

Now you can ask Claude Code to generate an HTML or PDF report on any theme you are researching. For example:
Using Bigdata, can you create an html report about how NVIDIA plans to embrace
quantum computing and their timelines? Add inline attribution.
Claude Code will call the Bigdata MCP tools during its reasoning loop, retrieve grounded financial content, and produce a report with inline citations linking back to the source documents.Allow Bigdata.com MCP tools always
Select Yes, and don't ask again.. to allow Claude Code to retrieve all the information it needs from Bigdata Services.
Claude code will create an HTML like the following:

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Troubleshooting

List all configured MCP servers with claude mcp list. To remove the Bigdata.com connector, run claude mcp remove bigdata_com.